Amazing Clay Flowers: Creating Realistic Flowers & Floral Arrangements [Paperback]

Noriko Kawaguchi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2010

This book provides complete instruction for creating stunning life-like flowers in clay as well as ideas for creating beautiful and long-lasting floral arrangements. 22 unique flower and arrangement projects are divided into seasonal sections, Spring, Autumn, Winter, and Summer, followed by themed projects including bouquets and accessories. The book shows beautiful photography of each arrangement and then offers complete, photographic, step-by-step instruction for each. The amazing projects are full of intricate details and provide both inspiration for polymer clay and mixed-media artists as well as complete instruction.

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About the Author

Noriko Kawaguchi is a native of Tokyo, Japan.  Her love of clay sculpting and other crafts began when she lived overseas with her husband who was posted abroad for work. While living in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, and London she studied a variety of arts and crafts. Currently, she teaches and exhibits internationally. She has authored a number of books about clay sculpting published in Japan.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Creative Publishing international (September 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158923572X
• ISBN-13: 978-1589235724
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #104,656 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars what happened to colored photos?!, August 31, 2010

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Emily Lai - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Amazing Clay Flowers: Creating Realistic Flowers & Floral Arrangements (Paperback)

I make clay flowers as a hobby and use Miyai's two Clay Art books, as well as this one as references. This book has lots of photos that show step by step how each flower is created. There are some crucial steps missing, but I kind of expected that, since that is the case for Miyai's two books also.

My one question: What the heck happened to colored photos?

The book starts out beautifully with lots of colored photos showing the flowers, arrangements, and steps...only to suddenly have black and white photos for the last 30-some pages. What a let down!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Colored flowers with Black and White Instructions!!???, October 7, 2010

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Tracey L "Tracey L" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Amazing Clay Flowers: Creating Realistic Flowers & Floral Arrangements (Paperback)

The cover of this book is gorgeous and you really need to look closely at the photographs and then closer again to tell the examples are not real flowers BUT then why oh why do you put the step by step instructional photographs in Black and White? I found the black and white photos a huge turn-off, they would have been better off leaving them out. They are hard to follow and so uninspiring I don't think I'll bother with those chapters. Very disappointing and a huge let down to what could otherwise be described as a lovely book.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Clay Flowers, September 2, 2010

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This review is from: Amazing Clay Flowers: Creating Realistic Flowers & Floral Arrangements (Paperback)

I also make clay flowers and have another book by the same author.
They are very informative and quite nicely presented. However, I agree with the last post ie: what happened with the color pictures at the last few chapters??? The book has some lovely color photos of finished works and also much of the step by step instructions are also in color...then, everything changes to black and white photos. Could this be a flawed edition or was that the intention of the books designers? Seems very odd to me that 3/4ths of the book would be in color and the last 1/4 in B&W...a bit disappointing.