We have been so busy these last few months filling bead, button and shawl pin orders for stores I hadn't even had time to think about mixing up some of the new Pantone colors for this fall and winter. I finally had some time today to sit down and study the most popular shades and mix up some new recipes. I plan to share those with you over the next week or so. My clay recipes of course are all with Kato polyclay and if you have already purchased my Clay Color System Tutorial, you will be able to utilize and appreciate the new recipes I will be sharing.
In the meantime, some fun new books arrived in the mail today. I ordered them some time ago with a 1-2 months wait before shipping so I thought it would be a nice surprise when they finally showed up.
The one book is Zentangle 2. I've seen some really cool work from various artists who have used the Zentangle method for their designs so I was rather curious as to what it was all about and maybe something I could have fun with. There are several books out to this series but I only wanted one book for now to start. After reading a book review by Angela Mabray on her blog, I decided to take her advice and skip Zentangle 1 and go right to the second book.
The other book is "Adapting Quilt Patterns to Polymer Clay" by Judith Skinner and Sarajane Helm. I was quite excited when I accidentally came across this one on Amazon. I had no idea it even existed and it has been out for several years already. For the past year I have been fascinated with quilting patterns and have been studying the various types in using them in my future clay designs so this book should be a lot of fun to experiment with.
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