Learn how to use basic shapes moulded from clay to model a huge menagerie of animals, from slithering snakes to flopping fish, merry mice and lovely ladybirds. Hours of fun await as you practice your shaping and sculpting skills on these enjoyable designs, each one featuring easy-to-follow instructions and charming explanatory photographs.

Enchanting, exquisitely detailed and full of personality, Katherine Dewey's animal sculptures delight all who see them. With the friendly medium of polymer clay and the step-by-step instructions in this book, you can achieve the same magical results! Inside, Katherine leads you through then utterly charming projects, such as a sweet little bluebird, a basset hound and a white-tailed fawn. And that's just the start! The "Making Changes" chapter will help you create your own original animal creations by changing poses, making realistic bases, and even modeling your animals to look like bronze, fade and other materials.

Full-color illustrations and step-by-step directions for 29 miniature animals, including sloth, flamingo, narwhal, llama, and more. Suitable for crafters of all ages, the projects make charming keepsakes and unique gifts.

Kids will love learning to work with clay! These 52 projects use air drying, easy to clean up clay, making them perfect for home or the classroom!

"A joy to read, as well as a constant reference library. Thoroughly inspiring." — Workbench The republication of this highly valuable text by Edouard Lanteri, a renowned teacher, sculptor, and intimate friend of Rodin (Rodin called him "my dear master, my dear friend"), makes it possible for serious students to gain the requisite skills needed for figurative sculpture and to bridge the gap between artistic concept and figurative realization. Modelling and Sculpting Animals, together with its companion piece Modelling and Sculpting the Human Figure, is the classic treatise on the techniques of figurative sculpture. Representing at least three thousand years of studio lore, this readily understandable, authoritative guide is a goldmine of technical information, easily comprising a four-year sculpture curriculum unavailable elsewhere. In this reasonably priced volume, devoted almost entirely to the modelling of animals, Lanteri offers thorough step-by-step instruction for the figurative sculptor. Beginning with a description of the historical symbolism of animals in different cultures, the author then proceeds to give meticulous anatomy for the horse, lion, and bull. Rules of motion, measurements of construction, erecting the framework, tools, materials, and other pertinent aspects of animal sculpture are covered in detail. The final section presents a comprehensive exposition of the methods of casting in plaster, including how to mix the plaster, applying successive layers and irons, opening the mold, soaping and oiling, chipping off the mold, and special precautions. A profusion of illustrations — over 200 photographs, drawings, and diagrams — clearly demonstrate every principle and method the author describes. 64 full-page photographic plates, 139 drawings and diagrams.

Get ready to get creative with clay! This book introduces readers to the world of clay modeling and provides step-by-step instructions for fun models, such as penguins, robots, monsters, and trains. Age-appropriate and straightforward text is paired with photographs of each step of the modeling process to give readers a clear sense of each craft's process and goal. The book begins with a list of materials for readers to collect, including clay, modeling tools, cutlery, and other household items. Readers will feel like real artists as they sculpt and shape their clay into fun figures that can be used for play and decoration.

This is the first of a series of publications designed to be used as teaching or learning aids to be used by teachers to develop clay modelling skills themselves or as classroom projects to develop pupil's clay modelling skills. The models are based on years of experience teaching in nursery and primary education and with groups of adults and children with special educational needs. Each book contains several practical projects, demonstrated in a step by step manner enabling you to create the models shown on the cover.