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Creating Lifelike Figures in Polymer Clay
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Katherine Dewey
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Free shipping NZ wide Ships within 24 hours from USA supplier | Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback, 144 pages | | Other Information: | full colour throughout, 200 b/w drawings, over 400 photographs throughout | | Release Date: | 19 June 2008 |
Polymer-clay crafters everywhere can learn how to sculpt realistic 6"-8" figures using the author's simple techniques. A well-known polymer clay teacher and sculptor, she shares a wealth of information that's accessible even to beginning sculptors. She covers the essentials, the fundamentals of figurative modelling and how to make the tools that will ensure success. She shows readers how to recreate faces and expressions, torsos, legs, hands and feet, all using simple techniques. Then there are finishing touches like clothing, costumes, paint and fibre plus the author demonstrates incredibly realistic butterfly or fairy wings. Topics herein include: selecting clay, making modelling tools, proportioning figures, posing, ethnic and gender subtleties, facial expressions, costumes in clay and finishing touches. |
| Publisher: | Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S. | | ISBN: | 0823015033 |
| EAN: | 9780823015030 | | Dimensions: | 27.43 x 21.59 x 1.14 centimeters (0.12 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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 – Customer review on 12/06/2008
I purchased the first printing of this book direct from the author after seeing 'Creating Life-Like Animals in Polymer Clay'.
I have never regretted buying it.
Unlike many of the 'how to' books on the market, the photographs in which are often technically good, but practically lacking when they don't show you close-ups when needed, or overall proportions, this book is designed to make it possible to actually SEE what you need at each step. So it might not make you a top-rate sculpter in one sitting, but (unless you get distracted by her results) you will, if you work through the book, surprise yourself with both the quality of the finished pieces - and with how much you have learned to critique about your own work, rather than be critical of it.
One of those books everyone should at least look at if they're thinking of working in the medium, and will almost certainly buy and find themselves going back to time and again when something isn't _quite_ right or they need inspiration.
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 – Customer review on 24/08/2009
I was surprised by this book. It is different to the other book by Katherine Dewey.
This book explains body parts. How to craft a leg or an arm, chapters on the head and the body. Then explains variations in each part- a chubby body or slender, placements of muscle or body tissues. Then explains putting it all together. There is also chapters on clothing and variations-eg.shoes/feet. A chapter on effects on clay-eg: lace, suede/buckskin. A chapter on how to add wings and "hair". I would not recommend this book for a beginner. It is definitely more technical and difficult. I would recommend it to someone who has been crafting for a while.
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