BARRON'S Handbuilt Pottery Techniques Revealed   This book reveals the secrets of handbuilding shown in unique cutaway photography. Here are directions for many creative, fun-to-do pottery projects potters can follow to produce handsome finished objects without need of a potter’s wheel. The author instructs in coil, slab, mold, and pinch techniques to produce pots, bowls, ...
	BETTERWAY BOOKS The Prop Builder's Molding & Casting Handbook   This is the first book to contain, in one comprehensive volume, every molding and casting procedure of use to the theater props builder. It guides you through the use of more than 30 molding and casting materials in the design and construction of theater properties and scenic elements. Includes ...
	DOVER Modelling and Sculpture: A Guide to Traditional Methods   A student of the great Edouard Lanteri's and a celebrated sculptor in his own right, Albert Toft created this manual to offer students every practical detail necessary for a complete knowledge of modelling and sculpture. Topics include modelling a portrait busto, Castingo modelling for terra-cotta, in relief, and for ...
	DOVER The Gargoyle Book: 572 Examples from Gothic Architecture   Dispelling the conventional wisdom that French Gothic architectural flourishes were born of despair or gloom, this book reveals the whimsical nature of these creations and the ingenious artisans who made them. With 572 illustrations, it’s an eye-opening look at some of the rare instances of public satire and unbridled ...
	KRAUSE Sculpture as Experience   Explore the freedom and possibility inherent in the art of sculpture! With exercises in seeing and drawing that will bring new perspective to beginners and pros alike, author Judith Peck begins to relate different approaches to creating sculptures. Learn new aesthetic and practical methods to working with a variety ...
	LARK 500 Baskets   Basketry is one of the most enduring and diverse crafts in the world. This diversity is reflected here in 500 beautifully crafted interpretations of the basket maker’s art. The styles range from traditional to avant-garde, as do the forms, some of which are functional, others purely sculptural. Some are constructed ...
	LARK Making Concrete Garden Ornaments   A celebrated teacher has gathered the tried-and-true techniques used by sculptors and folk artists, and tailored them for low-tech surroundings. In Making Concrete Garden Ornaments, learn to work with molds; form over armatures; model or carve with concrete; and treat concrete surfaces with mosaics, embedded objects, incising, and coloring. ...
	QUARRY Polymer Clay Surface Design Recipes   Regardless of your level of experience with polymer clay, the techniques and recipes for creating for combining clay with other media will inspire you to create unique surface designs. In addition to covering basic polymer clay techniques, tools, and materials, this book teaches you to use unique surface embellishments ...
	SCHIFFER PUBLISHING The Carver's Handbook   Thorough instructions in pictures and text guide you through each phase of the carving process, from cutting out the rough shape on the bandsaw or hand saw to the final shaping to painting the finest details. Helpful tips will enable you to complete even your first project with ease ...
	SCULPTURE HOUSE A Sculptor's Guide to Tools and Materials   This first edition publication, in its second printing, is highly recommended for all students of sculpture. Addresses clay and wax modeling, wood carving, stone carving, ceramics, moist clay products, and mold making, casting and enlarging. Discusses the uses and functions of sculpting tools and materials used in traditional sculpture. ...
	SCULPTURE HOUSE Mold Making Casting And Patina Book   For the student sculptor. First edition soft cover publication with 116 pages and over 200 photos and line drawings of all basic mold making and casting procedures. Sculpture House.
	STACKPOLE BOOKS Bird Carving Basics: Bills and Beaks   The fourth volume in the Bird Carving Basics series offers a wide variety of wildfowl carving techniques for creating all kinds of bills and beaks. Over 150 step-by-step photos with clear, detailed captions let you work right beside innovative carvers like Jim Sprankle, Mark McNair, and Martin Gates. You ...
	STACKPOLE BOOKS Bird Carving Basics: Eyes   Eyes, the first volume in the Bird Carving Basics series offers a wide variety of techniques for creating all kinds of eyes for all kinds of birds. Over 150 step-b-step photos with clear, detailed captions let you work right beside innovative carvers like Jim Sprankle, Grayson Chesser, Pete Peterson, ...
	STACKPOLE BOOKS Bird Carving Basics: Feet   Feet is the second volume in the Bird Carvng Basics series. It offers a wide variety of techniques for creating all kinds of feet for all kinds of birds. The book includes over 150 step-by-step photos with clear, detailed captions that illustrate the methods of innovative carvers such as Dan ...
	STACKPOLE BOOKS Bird Carving Basics: Tools   Tools, the ninth volume in the popular Bird Carving Basics series, helps you to choose the tools to best achieve the look of the bird you want to carve. Curtis Badger covers all carving tools from traditional to state of the art, explains their many uses, shows you how ...
	STACKPOLE BOOKS Carving Miniature Wildfowl   Join renowned bird artist and folk art carver Robert Guge as he creates seven wonderful miniature wildfowl sculptures. His work is a synthesis of available wood, high-technology tools, sculpture, and a prodigious use of paint, and this book includes detailed descriptions, scale drawings, and photographs for every step he ...
	STACKPOLE BOOKS How to Sell Your Carvings: Advice from the Pros   In this compact guide, top pros share tips on how to develop a distinctive carving style, how to identify and position yourself in specific markets, and how to use the media and special events to promote your product. The advice here is based on solid marketing theory plus the ...
	STACKPOLE BOOKS Woodcarving Step by Step with Rick Bütz: Woodland Warblers   Master woodcarver Rick Bütz shows you how to carve and paint three beautiful woodland warblers: a blackburnian warbler, a magnolia warbler, and a parula warbler. Selecting the right tools, roughing out and carving the wood, painting, finishing, and mounting the completed project are explained with step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow ...
	STERLING Artful Ways with Polymer Clay   In Artful Ways with Polymer Clay, Dotty McMillan offers techniques, tips, and magnificent projects to delight any crafter. All the basics are covered, with plenty of colorful photos illustrating the details: safety considerations, choosing and preparing the clay, baking, mixing colors, and mastering fundamental principles of design. See how to ...
	TEN SPEED PRESS Sculpture, Form, and Philosophy   The Notebooks of Alexander G. Weygers It's not often that a master artist puts pen to paper to describe in detail his theory of and approach to art. So Sculpture, form, and Philosophy is a rare privilege, a glimpse into the mind and technique of a true artistic genius. The ...
	WATSON-GUPTILL From Clay To Bronze: A Studio Guide to Figurative Sculpture   From Clay to Bronze demystifies the complex art of creating figure sculptures in bronze, going beyond theory straight to hands-on practice. Starting with the basics such as how to choose the right type of clay, author Tuck Langland provides step-by-step guidelines for beginning a figure or portrait study, building ...
	WATSON-GUPTILL Modeling the Figure in Clay   Master sculptor Bruno Lucchesi invites you on a guided tour of the human form. Follow him as he creates a figure in clay literally from the inside out starting with the skeleton, laying on the muscles to show male and female anatomy, and finishing with a complete figure sculpture ...
	WATSON-GUPTILL Terracotta: The Technique of Fired Clay Sculpture   Terracotta is one of the fastest, most direct, and inexpensive mediums available to the sculptor. Since the Renaissance, terracotta has been a favorite material for sculptors' small working models because, being fired not cast, it can be modeled with an enormous degree of freedom and inventiveness. Bruno Lucchesi, the ...
	WRITER'S DIGEST Family and Friends in Polymer Clay   Make friends with polymer clay ... and family, too! In this delightful, light-hearted book, Maureen Carlson will teach you how to sculpt unique clay figures of your favorite people. You'll find everything you need to have fun and success--including a complete description of tools and supplies; general techniques for ...
	WRITER'S DIGEST The Sculptor's Bible   Give dramatic visual and textural interest to your sculptures with this comprehensive multi-media guide to creating a wide variety of surface effects and finishes. Over 400 detailed color photos demonstrate key techniques such as adding detail to wood, plaster, and clay with colored wax, enamel, acrylic, and varnish and ...