The Art of Polymer Clay Creative Surface Effects: Techniques and Projects Featuring Transfers, Stamps, Stencils, Inks, Paints, Mediums, and More

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Polymer clay has grown and grown and grown in popularity since the publication of Donna Kato’s best-selling The Art of Polymer Clay in 1997. And there have been so many technical advances, too. Now poly-diva Donna Kato presents an all-new look at one of crafters’ all-time favorite mediums. Donna Kato’s Polymer Clay Innovations begins with the essentials of polymer clay, including its working properties, plus tools, curing, safety recommendations, and color ble... More >>

The Art of Polymer Clay Creative Surface Effects: Techniques and Projects Featuring Transfers, Stamps, Stencils, Inks, Paints, Mediums, and More

Modeling the Head in Clay

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Creative techniques step-by-step. This book offers the reader an opportunity to watch one of our foremost contemporary sculptors at work, to see not just highlights of the creative process, but every step from beginning to end.

In order to recreate the immediacy of an actual workshop situation, Bruno Lucchesi takes a single life-size head through all the stages of roughing in, modeling, refining the surface, and finishing and texturing, so that the reader can... More >>

Modeling the Head in Clay

How to Make Clay Characters

• ISBN13: 9780891347217
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Detailed instructions help the reader to create little characters, from "Grandpa" to "Saint Nick".... More >>

How to Make Clay Characters

Make Animal Sculptures with Paper Mache Clay: How to Create Stunning Wildlife Art Using Patterns and My Easy-to-Make, No-Mess Paper Mache Recipe

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If you've always wanted to create life-like animal sculptures, but you thought it would be "too hard" or "too expensive," you're in for a very pleasant surprise. This book contains step-by-step instructions and over 250 photos to guide you through the enjoyable process of making realistic animal sculptures in a whole new way. Jonni Good's easy techniques help you create stunning wildlife art without the mess usually associated with papier mache - and the pattern... More >>

Make Animal Sculptures with Paper Mache Clay: How to Create Stunning Wildlife Art Using Patterns and My Easy-to-Make, No-Mess Paper Mache Recipe

Polymer Clay Techniques Book

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You can achieve great results with polymer clay! With the 50+ techniques in this book, you can create polymer clay buttons or boxes or anything in between. Starting with the very basics (such as rolling, baking and gluing), Sue then moves on to more advanced methods: marbling, texturing, millefiori, bead-making, faux-stone effects and more. Feature spreads show exciting ways to combine techniques. You'll find this a comprehensive guide to the medium, complete... More >>

Polymer Clay Techniques Book

Time

• ISBN13: 9780810971462
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In this first paperback edition of his enormously successful Time, internationally acclaimed artist Andy Goldsworthy presents a wealth of work that uses time itself as a medium: on a Scottish hillside a huge rectangle of compacted snow becomes ever more visible as the surrounding snowfall melts away; clay walls dry out and crack, revealing new forms embedded within them; a sculpture of re-formed icicles catches the morning sunshine. This spectacular collection of co... More >>

Time

Origami Extravaganza: Folding Paper, a Book, and a Box

• ISBN13: 9780804832427
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While there are several origami books on the market, many are out-of-date, most are either too hard or too easy, few offer traditional projects, and fewer still provide all the elements needed to create, store, and display beautiful orgami pieces.

The kit contains:
* A 96-page book with complete instructions for 45 different projects
* 160 7x 7-inch sheets of folding paper in an array of color including patterned and foil sheets
* A sturdy box that d... More >>

Origami Extravaganza: Folding Paper, a Book, and a Box

Carl Warner's Food Landscapes

• ISBN13: 9780810989931
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In recent years, Carl Warner’s photographs have been unofficially circulating on the Internet and in mass e-mailings, to the pleasure of thou­sands upon thousands of viewers. Now, these images and many new ones are collected in one volume.   In the spirit of Play with Your Food, Carl Warner’s Food Landscapes is a colorful and fantastically imaginative collection of landscapes constructed entirely from fruits and vegetables, cheeses, breads, fish, meat, and... More >>

Carl Warner's Food Landscapes

Garden Mosaics: 25 Step-by-step Projects for Your Outdoor Room

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Discover the beauty of Garden Mosaics Inside Garden Mosaics Made Easy you’ll find 25 fabulous projects that show you just how easy it is to enhance the natural beauty of your home and garden with simple and elegant mosaics. Using stone, tile, china and broken and shaped glass, you can create gorgeous garden art, from stepping stones and butterfly feeders to wind chimes and more!
• Learn a variety of mosaic methods, including groutless techniques

Plaster Studio: Mixed-Media Techniques for Painting, Casting and Carving

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Discover a new world of possibilities open up through mixed media - working with plaster to create a wide variety of finished works of art. After a brief introduction explaining plaster basics, you are guided through five chapters: Painting on Plaster, Casting & Carving, Sculpture, Book Arts and Encaustic, Mixed Media & Plaster and 25 projects. Each project introduces a new way of incorporating plaster into your work, from the creation of a faux fresco painting, to ... More >>

Plaster Studio: Mixed-Media Techniques for Painting, Casting and Carving

Launching the Imagination

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Designed for courses in Creativity, Two-, Three- or Four-Dimensional Design, Launching the Imagination offers a comprehensive framework on which students, teachers, and administrators can build. The approach in this third edition is refined, distilled, and updated, using over 600 examples drawn from traditional and contemporary sources. Interviews of artists and designers, known as Profiles, introduce students to working processes, career choices, and criteri... More >>

Launching the Imagination

Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914

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Pablo Picasso's modest yet radical cardboard and sheet metal Guitar sculptures (1912 and 1914, respectively) bracket a truly incandescent period of structural, spatial and material experimentation for the artist. In October 1912, while in what he described as "the process of imagining a guitar," Picasso embraced the techniques of assemblage, collage, construction and mixed-media painting, frequently combining traditional artists' supplies--oil paint, charcoal, paste... More >>

Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914

Murakami Versailles

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The marvelous chambers of the Chateau de Versailles boast such overwhelming splendors of decor and craft that it might seem the height of folly to pit the works of any one artist against them. But in fact, such a collaboration turns out to be a formula for great success, when the right artist is given the reins. Jeff Koons managed it in 2008, and in 2010, Japanese Pop impresario Takashi Murakami rose to the challenge. In a grand hall sporting a vaulted ceiling thick... More >>

Murakami Versailles

The Decorative Art of Japanese Food Carving: Elegant Garnishes for All Occasions

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Japanese cuisine is renowned for the beauty of its presentation. Among the key elements in this presentation style are mukimono--the decorative garnishes and carvings that add the final flourish to a dish. It might be a carrot round in the shape of a plum blossom. Or a scattering of cherry blossoms plucked from a radish. Perhaps a swallow, a butterfly, a ginkgo leaf or a cluster of pine needles. Whatever the motif, it will have been created to delight the eye and th... More >>

The Decorative Art of Japanese Food Carving: Elegant Garnishes for All Occasions

ZBrush Character Creation: Advanced Digital Sculpting

• ISBN13: 9780470249963
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ZBrush's popularity is exploding giving more CG artists the power to create stunning digital art with a distinctively fine art feel. ZBrush Character Creation: Advanced Digital Sculpting is the must-have guide to creating highly detailed, lush, organic models using the revolutionary ZBrush software. Digital sculptor Scott Spencer guides you through the full array of ZBrush tools, including brushes, textures and detailing. With a focus on both the artistry and the te... More >>

ZBrush Character Creation: Advanced Digital Sculpting

Cool Cars and Trucks

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Whether you’d like to build an SUV, an excavator, a tanker truck, or a race car, this hands-on book will show you how. You can create street scenes such as a construction site, a fire rescue, or even a family on moving day. Children of all ages will let their imaginations run wild as they learn that there are no limits to what can be created with LEGO. And instructions are included for several of the models!... More >>

Cool Cars and Trucks

Pop Sculpture: How to Create Action Figures and Collectible Statues

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Sculpt toys and collectibles with modern-day tools, techniques and applications used by today’s top industry professionals
 
Ever since a 12-inch G.I. Joe took toy soldiers to a whole new level by giving them the ability to pose via moveable parts, as well as interchangeable clothing and accessories, the business of creating pop sculpture icons for the mass market was off and running. Superheroes came next, followed by TV show and movie charac... More >>

Pop Sculpture: How to Create Action Figures and Collectible Statues

Introducing ZBrush

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Amazon Exclusive: Eric Keller’s Top 10 Cool Uses for ZBrush

1. Blendshape Facial Targets: Create blendshape facial targets for characters for animation in Maya using ZBrush - it's fast and easy!

2. Tiling Textures: Use ZBrush to create tiling textures for 3D objects.

3. Normal and Displacement Maps: Use ZBrush to create normal and displacement maps - it's supe... More >>

Introducing ZBrush

Creating Lifelike Figures in Polymer Clay: Tools and Techniques for Sculpting Realistic Figures

• ISBN13: 9780823015030
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How-tos by the master of realistic fanciful polymer figures! * More than 400 step-by-step full-color photos and 200 drawings * Innovative techniques, taught by a master * Inspiring ideas, practical information Anyone who has ever marveled over Katherine Dewey’s amazing creations has wondered, "How did she do that?" In Creating Lifelike Figures in Polymer Clay, the renowned artist reveals exactly how she makes her incredible human figures and fantasy characters--an... More >>

Creating Lifelike Figures in Polymer Clay: Tools and Techniques for Sculpting Realistic Figures

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

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264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imagined...The Ephrussis came from Odessa, and at one time were the largest grain exporters in the world; in the 1870s, Charles Ephrussi was part of a wealthy new generation set... More >>

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance