Author: Fay De Winter
Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
ISBN: 9781454710332
Category : CRAFTS & HOBBIES
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Delve into the world of air-dry clay crafting with 20 beautiful easy-to-make projects that are suitable for all skill levels. Air-dry clay looks, feels, and performs like traditional clay, but requires no kiln time. You can create professional-looking ceramics in your own kitchen without the need for a kiln."--Back cover.
Easy Homemade Pottery
Author: Francesca Stone
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
ISBN: 1645671518
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Planters, Vases, Dishes and More, Without a Pottery Studio! You’ll be amazed by what you can create with polymer and air-dry clay. These affordable, easy-to-find clays present endless possibilities for artisan-quality home decor and gifts. Francesca Stone, creator of the decor blog Fall For DIY, presents simple step-by-step techniques for shaping and decorating clay with just a few household tools. All final pieces can be air-dried or baked in a standard home oven. Featuring a gorgeous, modern palette of natural colors, these projects are deceptively easy and effortlessly chic. Personalize your home with practical and beautiful items like the Terra-Cotta Jewelry Dish, Hanging Herb Garden Planter and Salt-and-Pepper Pinch Pot. Get creative with color and geometric shapes in home accents such as the Color-Block Photo Holder and Abstract Floral Block Platter. This book is the perfect primer to start making beautiful clay pieces at home and get that handmade ceramic look without the expenses and challenges of traditional pottery.
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
ISBN: 1645671518
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Planters, Vases, Dishes and More, Without a Pottery Studio! You’ll be amazed by what you can create with polymer and air-dry clay. These affordable, easy-to-find clays present endless possibilities for artisan-quality home decor and gifts. Francesca Stone, creator of the decor blog Fall For DIY, presents simple step-by-step techniques for shaping and decorating clay with just a few household tools. All final pieces can be air-dried or baked in a standard home oven. Featuring a gorgeous, modern palette of natural colors, these projects are deceptively easy and effortlessly chic. Personalize your home with practical and beautiful items like the Terra-Cotta Jewelry Dish, Hanging Herb Garden Planter and Salt-and-Pepper Pinch Pot. Get creative with color and geometric shapes in home accents such as the Color-Block Photo Holder and Abstract Floral Block Platter. This book is the perfect primer to start making beautiful clay pieces at home and get that handmade ceramic look without the expenses and challenges of traditional pottery.
The Artful Parent
Author: Jean Van't Hul
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1611807204
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Bring out your child’s creativity and imagination with more than 60 artful activities in this completely revised and updated edition Art making is a wonderful way for young children to tap into their imagination, deepen their creativity, and explore new materials, all while strengthening their fine motor skills and developing self-confidence. The Artful Parent has all the tools and information you need to encourage creative activities for ages one to eight. From setting up a studio space in your home to finding the best art materials for children, this book gives you all the information you need to get started. You’ll learn how to: * Pick the best materials for your child’s age and learn to make your very own * Prepare art activities to ease children through transitions, engage the most energetic of kids, entertain small groups, and more * Encourage artful living through everyday activities * Foster a love of creativity in your family
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1611807204
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Bring out your child’s creativity and imagination with more than 60 artful activities in this completely revised and updated edition Art making is a wonderful way for young children to tap into their imagination, deepen their creativity, and explore new materials, all while strengthening their fine motor skills and developing self-confidence. The Artful Parent has all the tools and information you need to encourage creative activities for ages one to eight. From setting up a studio space in your home to finding the best art materials for children, this book gives you all the information you need to get started. You’ll learn how to: * Pick the best materials for your child’s age and learn to make your very own * Prepare art activities to ease children through transitions, engage the most energetic of kids, entertain small groups, and more * Encourage artful living through everyday activities * Foster a love of creativity in your family
Expressions with Air-Dry Clay
Author: Emi Fukushima
Publisher: Design Originals
ISBN: 9781574212297
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Soft, light air-dry clay is the perfect material for everyone from grade school crafters to professional sculptors. Here is everything you need to know. Learn the basics of working with clay. Develop your skills and know-how. Sculpt amazing designs to give as gifts. Create functional art for practical uses. You will discover amazing abilities you may not have realized you possessed. Plus, it's perfect for any age, so you can get the kids involved. Clay art is a wonderful rainy-day activity that entertains the whole family! Try creating with hearty clay. It is an easily worked material that doesn't require heat to cure. It's easy to work with on small projects. For bigger projects, this book contains advice on the simple steps you can take to ensure that your clay doesn't dry out. Coloring clay is another way to add pizazz to your work. Hearty clay provides a color clay scale that will give you perfect outcomes every time you mix and blend. The results of your efforts will pay off in beautiful, colorful forms. Your clay can be rolled in a pasta maker, torn, or cut. Use decorative scissors for an additional design element. Hand-rolling and stamping are great options as well. Punch, press, or emboss amusing shapes into clay. Co-authors Donna Kato, Emi Fukushima, and Ting-Yao Chen bring an unmatched pool of knowledge to you. They'll inspire you with their many ideas, including: *Cards: shape unique sentimental expressions *Blended Vessels: mold pencil holders and more *Dolls: fashion intricate and endearing figures *Florals: encourage fabulous flowers to bloom *Blended Masks: decorate intriguing elements of home decor *Containers: fabricate trinket boxes, bowls, and more. The only limit for what you can create is your own imagination!
Publisher: Design Originals
ISBN: 9781574212297
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Soft, light air-dry clay is the perfect material for everyone from grade school crafters to professional sculptors. Here is everything you need to know. Learn the basics of working with clay. Develop your skills and know-how. Sculpt amazing designs to give as gifts. Create functional art for practical uses. You will discover amazing abilities you may not have realized you possessed. Plus, it's perfect for any age, so you can get the kids involved. Clay art is a wonderful rainy-day activity that entertains the whole family! Try creating with hearty clay. It is an easily worked material that doesn't require heat to cure. It's easy to work with on small projects. For bigger projects, this book contains advice on the simple steps you can take to ensure that your clay doesn't dry out. Coloring clay is another way to add pizazz to your work. Hearty clay provides a color clay scale that will give you perfect outcomes every time you mix and blend. The results of your efforts will pay off in beautiful, colorful forms. Your clay can be rolled in a pasta maker, torn, or cut. Use decorative scissors for an additional design element. Hand-rolling and stamping are great options as well. Punch, press, or emboss amusing shapes into clay. Co-authors Donna Kato, Emi Fukushima, and Ting-Yao Chen bring an unmatched pool of knowledge to you. They'll inspire you with their many ideas, including: *Cards: shape unique sentimental expressions *Blended Vessels: mold pencil holders and more *Dolls: fashion intricate and endearing figures *Florals: encourage fabulous flowers to bloom *Blended Masks: decorate intriguing elements of home decor *Containers: fabricate trinket boxes, bowls, and more. The only limit for what you can create is your own imagination!
Polymer Clay Color Inspirations
Author: Lindly Haunani
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0823015017
Category : Color in art
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Renowned for their courses and workshops on color, the authors offer instruction and inspiration that focuses on polymer clay as a learning tool that crafters can use to explore their own color instincts and preferences. Each chapter investigates a color principle supported by a jewelry project.
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0823015017
Category : Color in art
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Renowned for their courses and workshops on color, the authors offer instruction and inspiration that focuses on polymer clay as a learning tool that crafters can use to explore their own color instincts and preferences. Each chapter investigates a color principle supported by a jewelry project.
Design Mom
Author: Gabrielle Stanley Blair
Publisher: Artisan Books
ISBN: 1579655718
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
New York Times best seller Ever since Gabrielle Stanley Blair became a parent, she’s believed that a thoughtfully designed home is one of the greatest gifts we can give our families, and that the objects and decor we choose to surround ourselves with tell our family’s story. In this, her first book, Blair offers a room-by-room guide to keeping things sane, organized, creative, and stylish. She provides advice on getting the most out of even the smallest spaces; simple fixes that make it easy for little ones to help out around the house; ingenious storage solutions for the never-ending stream of kid stuff; rainy-day DIY projects; and much, much more.
Publisher: Artisan Books
ISBN: 1579655718
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
New York Times best seller Ever since Gabrielle Stanley Blair became a parent, she’s believed that a thoughtfully designed home is one of the greatest gifts we can give our families, and that the objects and decor we choose to surround ourselves with tell our family’s story. In this, her first book, Blair offers a room-by-room guide to keeping things sane, organized, creative, and stylish. She provides advice on getting the most out of even the smallest spaces; simple fixes that make it easy for little ones to help out around the house; ingenious storage solutions for the never-ending stream of kid stuff; rainy-day DIY projects; and much, much more.
Picture the Sky
Author: Barbara Reid
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
ISBN: 1443163023
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
In this companion to the bestselling Picture a Tree, Barbara Reid has us look up . . . way up Wherever we may be, we share the same sky. But every hour, every day, every season, whether in the city or the forest, it is different. The sky tells many stories: in the weather, in the clouds, in the stars, in the imagination. Renowned artist Barbara Reid brings her unique vision to a new topic - the sky around us. In brilliant Plasticine illustrations, she envisions the sky above and around us in all its moods. Picture the sky. How do you feel?
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
ISBN: 1443163023
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
In this companion to the bestselling Picture a Tree, Barbara Reid has us look up . . . way up Wherever we may be, we share the same sky. But every hour, every day, every season, whether in the city or the forest, it is different. The sky tells many stories: in the weather, in the clouds, in the stars, in the imagination. Renowned artist Barbara Reid brings her unique vision to a new topic - the sky around us. In brilliant Plasticine illustrations, she envisions the sky above and around us in all its moods. Picture the sky. How do you feel?