Art Makers

Learn to make adorable items from polymer clay! Easy-to-follow techniques and step-by-step projects lead the way.⍾⍾“The Art Makers” series is designed for beginning artists and arts-and-crafts enthusiasts who are interested in experiencing fun, hands-on mediums, including polymer clay, embroidery, and papier-mache.⍾⍾In this inviting, visually appealing book, you can learn to make adorable, whimsical crafts with polymer clay. Author Shelley Kommers, an experienced art instructor and a professional artist, takes you through the complete steps of learning to work with polymer clay, from the tools and materials you will need to techniques, such as molding, mixing colors, and baking. The projects are simple to follow and include adorable, whimsical subject matter, such as:⍾• plant pots⍾• a cloud mobile⍾• finger puppets⍾• a trinket box⍾• a hanging sloth⍾• and much more! This book is perfect for artists of all skill levels, from beginners to more advanced artists looking to improve their clay-making skills or learn a new technique. With colorful, full-page art, quirky subject matter, and expert instructions, anyone can learn to work with polymer clay in no time. Best of all, the tools and materials are affordable and accessible, so you won't need to buy a bunch of stuff to get started.⍾⍾If you're looking for a craft to make creative use of the extra time you have at home, polymer clay is the perfect choice. Get started right away making adorable, on-trend art with Art Makers: Make Cute Stuff with Polymer Clay.

With Art Makers: Empowered Embroidery, learn to sketch and stitch strong, recognizable women from all walks of life. Featuring sketching and illustration instructions, basic stitches, embroidery techniques, and 6 projects with portraits of famous women, this book is a must-have tool for hands-on artists and crafters. If you're a beginning embroiderer, start with the basic stitches and embroidery instructions at the beginning of the book. Essential tools, warm-up exercises, tips for embroidering facial features and hair, and general information on embroidery will give you the know-how you need to get started. Then dive into sketching your favorite female cultural and historical icons: • Frida Kahlo • Eleanor Roosevelt • Maya Angelou • Harriet Tubman • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Michelle Obama Once you've sketched your figures, follow along with the step-by-step embroidery projects as you learn to stitch the women featured in the book-and anyone else you admire! All of the projects are beautifully paired with large photos so that you can easily mimic the techniques at home while relaxing with your embroidery. The author is a professional illustrator, designer, and embroiderer uniquely suited to give instruction on this fun, trending embroidery technique. With her expert tips, you're sure to enjoy learning a new hobby, or advancing your skills if you're already familiar with embroidery. Art Makers: Empowered Embroidery makes it easy to sketch, stitch, and create your favorite female icons, from empowering women of today to icons of the past. The Art Makers series is designed for beginning artists and arts-and-crafts enthusiasts who are interested in experiencing fun hands-on mediums, including polymer clay and papier-mache.

Learn all about the super-popular Japanese trend of crocheting cute creatures with Cute & Cuddly Crochet, and then make your own adorable stuffed animals! Author and artist Lauren Bergstrom provides 12 step-by-step projects for crocheting popular, trendy, huggable animals, such as a flamingo, a dinosaur, an elephant, an octopus, a red panda, a fox, a narwhal, and more. While amigurumi animals are often very small, this book features instructions and tips for crocheting larger plushie animals that are perfect for baby gifts, birthday gifts for kids, home decor, and more. While crocheting a larger animal may sound intimidating or like more work, it isn't! Included in the book are helpful hints for working with bulky yarn, as well as how to stuff the animals. “Amigurumi Animals” also offers a guide for crochet basics, such as crochet techniques, stitches, how to do color changes, materials and where to source them, and much more.

Papier mâché is back-and not just for kids! Artists of all skill levels, crafty families, and others will love learning to work with their hands to make and then create with papier mâché.⍾⍾The perfect tactile and environmentally conscious art form, papier mâché uses simple, affordable, and recyclable tools and can be made easily at home. This accessible guide covers the tools, materials, and techniques for making papier mâché, followed by step-by-step projects for making quirky, whimsical, folk art—inspired:⍾• Home decor⍾• Gifts⍾• Jewelry⍾• Dolls⍾• Animal figurines⍾• And much more⍾This is the perfect book for anyone wanting to get started with this fun, easy technique, or for those who want to revisit the joy of making papier mâché from their childhood.