Polymer Clay Master Class: Exploring Process, Technique, and Collaboration with 11 Master Artists

by Judy Belcher, Tamara Honaman

Learn the Signature Techniques of Top Polymer Clay Artists

Polymer Clay Master Class offers you a close-up look at the creative processes of eleven acclaimed polymer clay artists as they share their expertise with one another and you. Judy Belcher and Tamara Honaman bring together these talented artists for the first time, offering their individual techniques and then documenting how they inspire and challenge one another in the creation of collaborative pieces. In five lessons with sixteen guided projects, you will gain an understanding of the polymer clay skills you’ve always wanted to master, such
Creating with sculpture, canework, and imitative techniques
Altering the surface with carving, transfers, imprint, and silk screening
Incorporating mixed media, such as metal, wood, and fiber
Designing using cold connections, hollow and lightweight forms, kinetic construction, and jewelry-finishing techniques
Pushing the boundaries of the Skinner Blend technique
Collaborating with fellow artists to open up new creative possibilities
With contributors including Leslie Blackford, Cynthia Tinapple, Lindly Haunani, Sarah Shriver, and many others, you have a front-row seat to the world of innovative polymer clay art. Challenge your assumptions about methods, style, and collaboration, and get ready to start on your own creative journey.

Genres: Reference

160 pages, Paperback

First published December 26, 2012

Reviews

[Shelli · Rating 1 out of 5]

The structure of Polymer Clay Master Class: Exploring Process, Technique, and Collaboration with 11 Master Artists paired two (or in one case, three) artists together for each chapter, in which each artist presented a project tutorial, and then the pair collaborated on a joint piece. Unfortunately, none of the individual projects appealed to me at all, nor did they introduce any novel techniques (which one might have expected in a "master" class). Although the collaborative projects were meant as examples of how to work together with another artist and did not contain step-by-step instructions, I was still unmoved by their finished products, and found nothing inspiring or useful in the description of how the artists worked together.

A clunker.

[Jacquie Parry · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not really for me

This book was nice to flick through but I doubt I'd make any of the project's
A bit of a vanity project for the artists featured
They seemed to be in a club that the reader wasn't a member of

[Amber · Rating 2 out of 5]

I couldn't see myself making most of these projects, and the few that caught my interest provided no instructions. This book is more helpful for learning how to collaborate with another artist