Written by Joshua Burkhardt What were you doing by the age of 11? If you're Joshua Burkhardt you would have your own business, your own website, you would have been featured in four newspapers and two magazines, been on TV and the radio, as well as having taught numerous workshops to men, women, and children from 4 to 70. And if that wasn't enough, now Joshua has written a beautiful book to help promote polymer clay to all people from the ages of 4 to 70! Hangin' Around With Noah is a terrific book, be it a gift for the Holidays, or because you are like me and have to have every Polymer Clay book published!
Joshua uses very basic tools and supplies, easily available, which makes this book a great present. Just add a couple of packages of clay to this book and I believe you can start anyone playing with Polymer Clay. Joshua has devised an ingenious way of measuring clay so you can be sure you are using the right amount of clay, and he has directions on how to make some simple tools to help with the projects.
Kids and parents should have a great time with this book, because besides being a book on polymer clay direction, there are many little jokes, puzzles, and Bible verses that go along nicely with the theme of Noah and his animals. Kids will have a lot of fun with this!
On a side note, I was 40 years old before I discovered polymer clay. I keep learning and pushing myself, trying to make up for all the years I spent on other Arts and Crafts mediums, while Joshua started when he was nine years old! I can't wait to see what he'll be doing 10 or 20 years from now. I have a feeling Joshua is going to WOW the polymer clay world! Leigh Ross Readers' Comments!
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Joshua's designs of Noah and the animals are adorable, and the directions
are even better. He has directions for finishing the characters with long jute legs, or
just with feet. Every action is broken down to very basic steps, and then those steps
blend together to make a wonderful finished product. These are easy to follow, and you
will produce many characters that you can be proud of.
I went through the book page by page, several dozen times, trying to find if there was
something important that wasn't included, because it's difficult to totally recommend a
book to "newbies" when some important technique or method is omitted. Well, kudos
to the authors Joshua and Cheryl Burkhardt because I couldn't find ANYTHING
missing!
I strongly
recommend this book to people interested in experimenting with polymer clay, as well
as to children, who should be able to follow most of the directions just by looking at the
step-by-step photos.