Polymer Clay Color Inspirations: Techniques and Jewelry Projects for Creating Successful Palettes
by Lindly Haunani, Maggie Maggio
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Author: Lindly Haunani, Maggie MaggioEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-08-25
ISBN: 0823015017
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Potter Craft
Book Reviews of Polymer Clay Color Inspirations: Techniques and Jewelry Projects for Creating Successful Palettes
Book Review: This is NOT a step-by-step!! Thank goodness!
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't normally feel obligated to pile on when a book has so many five-star reviews, but I do this time. +1 to everything everyone else loves about this book.
And: Thank GOODNESS it's not a "project" book! This is an art form! Can I have a few more exclamation points? This medium is riddled, if not ruined, with step-by-step books that tell you exactly how to make work exactly like the work in the picture and leave you with no actual new skills or understanding. That's not art (IMO).
Wait wait, there's more: Thank GOODNESS it's a "technical" book. It's a "technical" medium! It's chemistry (oops, was I not supposed to let anyone know that there's more chemistry to the "poly" than there is "clay" to the second part of the name?). The stuff changes when it bakes. There's a reason you're not supposed to let raw clay contact food prep surfaces... Other artists get books about the technical elements of their media. Why not polyclay?
I saw this book at the store and let it sit. One more over-promised polyclay book, flashy pictures on the front, boring step-by-steps inside. Then it appeared in the library and I checked it out, and now I'm back to buy my own copy. And I'm not even a polyclay artist! I like the way the color information is presented and am working my way through the exercises in textiles--the information about color is THAT good and THAT accessible, compared to virtually every other color theory book available.
Finally, it has been a while since I've looked at polyclay books, largely because so much of the content IS S-B-S, and it's good to see work of artists I haven't seen in every other compendium.
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Summary of Polymer Clay Color Inspirations: Techniques and Jewelry Projects for Creating Successful Palettes
Lindly Haunani and Maggie Maggio are renowned for their courses and workshops on color as well as for their outstanding polymer clay work. In this book, they offer instruction and inspiration that focuses on polymer clay as a learning tool that readers can use to explore their own color instincts and preferences and develop their own palettes.Each chapter investigates a specific color principle, with the discussion supported by a related exercise, a ?studio tool? assignment or demonstration, a polymer clay jewelry project, and a profile of a prominent polymer clay artist. Sample topics include:
?The Complexity of Color
?Three Properties of Color
?Choosing Your Palette
?Mixing Colors That Flow
?Matching Colors with Precision
?Games Colors Play
?Orchestrating Color Combinations
?Color Composition: Placement and Proportion
?Playful Patterns
?Tantalizing Textures
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