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Here be Dragons Christi Friesen. Fantastic Figures Susanna Oroyan. Bestsellers in Art Forms. How to See George Nelson. The Splendid Sampler 2 Pat Sloan. Color Mixing Bible Ian Sidaway. The Art of Iron Kathleen M. Zdzislaw Beksinski Wieslaw Banach. Vol 2 Cheri Smith. A Showing of 88 Images Cheri Smith. The Art of Taxidermy Jane Eastoe. Little People in the City Slinkachu. Pin Pals Carrie Nelson.
Designed in the USSR: Patches of Scraps Edyta Sitar. Made in North Korea Nick Bonner. A good book for converting new clay enthusiasts! After bringing the book home and trying a couple of its projects, I too am extremely impressed with it. But I'm not so sure it's a good book for new clay-ers.
Dewey's book has instructions for 10 different polymer clay animal sculptures, including a mouse, rabbit, seal, bear, dog, fawn, fox, frog, bird, and kitten. Her style is realistic, not the cartoon-style sculptures you find in many polymer clay animal books. And she does a wonderful job of leading you through the creation of these animals. Each animal has steps, and each step includes a good-quality photo, leading you gently from ball of clay to finished, painted sculpture.
Not only are Dewey's project instructions wonderful, but she also does one of the best jobs I've seen of going over clay basics. She talks about clay's chemical make-up and leaching in a clear, interesting way. She has a section on making your own tools and not just the standard stuff, either , plus how to make basic shapes and armatures. I also like Dewey's painting lessons. She gives great information about going beyond the basics in painting: This book really helped me get my head around some more complex painting techniques.
And she tries to help you take the next step, including instructions for changing the pose and size of the animals her discussion of volume on p. Each project in the book includes several line drawings of the animal, to help you visualize its structure. At the end, she recommends several art anatomy books to use for reference in continuing your animal sculpting.
After dragging my feet a bit, I finally tried the book's second project and felt much more confident about it. She introduced some new techniques in the second chapter, and a glance through the other chapters gives me the impression that she'll continue to build on previous lessons. So while you may not have to do the projects in order, you'll probably need to at least read through some of the preceding chapters to know what you're doing. I don't feel yet like I could take this to the next level and sculpt animals from drawings in an animal anatomy book or by studying my sleeping cat, for that matter.
Maybe that will come with continued practice, but I wish Dewey had included some tips on making that leap. Maybe a chapter with sketches of more animals and a few pointers on how to try them on your own?
If you're ready to invest some time in learning about polymer clay sculpture, you can't beat this book. It is text-book quality for an extremely reasonable price. Life-Like Animals takes you from the very beginning - Different types of clays available and their properties, tools that are necessary and those that not essential but make life easier, proper baking methods etc. Surprisingly, though the intro to clay section is pretty much the same, there is new material in the tools section, including different methods for doing the some of the same tasks and a couple of tools not covered in her other book.
This is a pretty good tutorials for the basics of shaping animals. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Great book to learn how to make animals, reading this book helps you figure out measurements and shapes of other animals also. Would recommend it to anyone.
A lot of tips and tricks of how to master all projects. Katherine Dewey is an amazing artist that is extremely talented; her book makes me want to start straight away, although I have been too busy recently.
Creating Life-Like Animals in Polymer Clay [Katherine Dewey] on bahana-line.com * FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Enchanting, exquisitely detailed and full of. Creating Life-Like Animals in Polymer Clay - Kindle edition by Katherine Dewey. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets.
Katherine's figures may look simple to follow, but this shows years of practise and her love of clay. A must have book, to encourage those who already can, to get back into sculpting and to those who can't, it gives lots of advice, diagrams and pictures.
For example to show how to sculpt a dog she uses 10 pages for the Basset Hound and 10 more pages for the Red Fox. She gives money saving tips on making tools that work and how to make a cheap armature that saves on using too much clay and also keeps the work a lot lighter in weight.
Thankyou Katherine Dewey you have made a new fan. I will always keep an eye out for any new book you present: Really Detailed workings and Katherine shows you very clearly how to create these animals.
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