Making Polymer Clay Earrings is a useful, beginner friendly tutorial guide for polymer clay written and curated by Liat Weiss. Released 21st June 2023 by Fox Chapel, it's 144 pages and is available in paperback and ebook formats.
Virtually everyone has used polymer clay at some point. It's available
at crafts and
big-box retailers, by mail order, and I've even seen it at some larger
grocery stores. The disconnect comes when you get your little packages
of plastic home and try to make something. Even with the best
intentions, none of my creations bore the slightest resemblance to the
pictures I had up in my head. I needed a step-by-step tutorial, and this
is a good one. The book is full of cute exuberant and colorful projects
and well written tutorials to guide readers through projects to
finished items (which actually look like the things they're meant to
be).
I'm definitely a process based learner, so this book was perfect.
The photographs are crisp and clear, the steps are very well
delineated, and the projects are appealing, stylish, and artistic (see cover).
There are a wide variety of subject tutorials, and all the basic-intermediate techniques are included such as marbling, blending, millefiori (in simple canes), 3D shapes, etc.
This would make an amazing activity guide for scouts, church or library maker's groups, or classroom art instruction. I'm a middle aged adult and I am
absolutely going to use the tutorials here to make myself some charms
for my embroidery scissors and needle minders. This is a wonderfully
inspiring book which had my fingers itching to get started!
The full size templates are included as well as an abbreviated resource/links list with worldwide suppliers.
Four and a half stars.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes
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