Each project is shown in glorious color. Begin with a basic bead, and before long you'll be shaping beads, adding spots, dots, eyes, stripes, and tails.
Polymer clay is a uniquely versatile material.
It's available in a rainbow of colors, is odorless and non-toxic, can be hardened in an ordinary oven, and the basic techniques to work with it are simple to learn. This guide includes tracings one can transfer for various projects, including a butterfly jug and tumblers, a striped zebra and spotted ocelot frame, jam jars covered in fruit designs, and a bowl with lightly painted, watery-hued fishes.