Product Description: 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
Can't Reccomend this Book Enough ^ I'm always wary buying polymer clay books, so many are just project books and while those can be fun I want help designing original creations. Polymer Clay Color Inspirations is exactly the kind of book I love, it goes in depth with the concepts and techniques it teaches with great exercises to show you how they work. The few projects included are all gorgeous with interesting techniques that can be adapted to other projects easily. If you need help choosing colors for your projects and get stumped trying to mix good colors with your clay this book is ideal. Rather than just lists of color "recipes" it teaches you how to create your own which is much more useful.
Color inspirations and then some!!!! ^ This is such a great book if you are severely color challenged like I am (ok...was after this book!!!!) The lessons in this book are written well and really make you want to do the next lesson so you can progress just that much further!!!!!
Polymer Clay Color Inspirations: Techniques and Jewelry Projects for Creating Successful Palettes ^ This book really open my eyes about what u can do with the polymer clay and how u can create beautiful crazy colors. It makes you exploring more about imagination and creativity especially with the amazing works from good polymer clay artist that can help and give u some different kind of ideas. It explains everything clearly and even gives worksheets to learn how to mix colors for the polymer clay. It really is a good tutorial book, can't stop reading it :)
This is NOT a step-by-step!! Thank goodness! ^ 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.
Color Theory 101in Polymer Clay ^ If you have trouble mixing colors (like me) then you need this book !!! Follow the book as if it were a class. You'll learn all you know about color theory and creating the color pallets you desire for you projects.
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