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If you need help choosing colors for your projects and get stumped trying to mix good colors with your clay this book is ideal. 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. Rather than just lists of color "recipes" it teaches you how to create your own which is much more useful. The few projects included are all gorgeous with interesting techniques that can be adapted to other projects easily.
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.
This book really open my eyes about what u can do with the polymer clay and how u can create beautiful crazy colors. It really is a good tutorial book, can't stop reading it :) 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.
+1 to everything everyone else loves about this book. Why not polyclay. 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). I saw this book at the store and let it sit. Can I have a few more exclamation points. There's a reason you're not supposed to let raw clay contact food prep surfaces. That's not art (IMO). 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. This is an art form. I don't normally feel obligated to pile on when a book has so many five-star reviews, but I do this time. 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. Wait wait, there's more: Thank GOODNESS it's a "technical" book.
One more over-promised polyclay book, flashy pictures on the front, boring step-by-steps inside. Other artists get books about the technical elements of their media. And: Thank GOODNESS it's not a "project" book. It's a "technical" medium. 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.
The stuff changes when it bakes.
If you have trouble mixing colors (like me) then you need this book. You'll learn all you know about color theory and creating the color pallets you desire for you projects. Follow the book as if it were a class.
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