The Art of Apoxie Sculpt by Sugar Gay Isber McMillan: The Complete Guide to Creating with Epoxy Clay (Making Art with Sugar)

“This is the kind of art book that makes you want to clear off the table and start creating.”

What if you could attach almost anything to almost anything?

Welcome to The Art of Apoxie Sculpt , a colorful, idea-packed guide to one of the most versatile creative materials you may ever put on your worktable.

Artist, jewelry designer and longtime instructor Sugar Gay Isber McMillan takes you inside her real working studio and shares the techniques, experiments, discoveries and problem-solving tricks she has developed through years of creating with Apoxie Sculpt two-part epoxy clay.

And this is NOT a book with a handful of projects surrounded by pages of filler.

It is JAM-PACKED with more than 100 creative ideas, projects and inspiring examples.

You'll learn how to mix, shape, sculpt, texture and color epoxy clay, but that's only the beginning. Discover how to embed stones and findings, create connections where no hole exists, make custom components, work with molds, add pigments and metallic finishes, transform found objects, incorporate vintage treasures, rescue broken pieces and solve those maddening How in the world am I going to attach THAT to THAT? problems.

Then Sugar takes the techniques beyond jewelry.

Make and transform lamps, mirrors, boxes, knobs, handles, home décor, functional objects and more. Once you understand what epoxy clay can do, ordinary objects start looking suspiciously like future art projects.

BIG, BEAUTIFUL AND EASY TO READ This generously sized 8.5 × 11 book features large, easy-to-read type and is filled with colorful photographs and real examples from Sugar's own work. It's designed to be comfortable to read and practical to keep beside you while you create.

BEGINNER? START HERE. EXPERIENCED MAKER? COME PLAY. You don't need to make things exactly the way Sugar does. In fact, that's not the point.

You'll learn what the material can do and why the techniques work , so you can adapt them to your own jewelry, artwork, repairs and creative experiments.

Whether you're discovering epoxy clay for the first time or you've already got tubs of Apoxie Sculpt sitting on your studio shelf, you'll find techniques to learn, problems to solve and ideas you'll want to try.

Inside you'll discover:

The essentials of working successfully with two-part epoxy clay Mixing, shaping, smoothing, texturing and curing techniques How to add and experiment with color Ways to embed stones, crystals, findings and unusual objects Clever solutions for objects with no holes Jewelry construction and creative connection techniques Molds, textures, pigments, powders and metallic effects Fossils, shark teeth, crystals, vintage pieces and found objects Repair and transformation ideas Home décor and functional art projects 100+ creative ideas, projects and inspiring examples Sugar's real-world studio tips, experiments, successes and occasional well, THAT didn't work moments This isn't about following rules or producing a perfect copy of somebody else's project.

It's about learning the possibilities of an extraordinary material and gaining the confidence to look at the objects around you differently.

Learn the techniques. Make them your own.

And then ask yourself:

WHAT COULD I MAKE WITH THIS? You're going to love Sugar!