{"id":13117,"date":"2012-04-27T14:07:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T21:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=13117"},"modified":"2016-11-17T13:13:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T20:13:53","slug":"book-review-heat-color-set-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/book-review-heat-color-set-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Heat, Color, Set &#038; Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13194924-heat-color-set-fire\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1328743153m\/13194924.jpg\" alt=\"Heat, Color, Set &amp; Fire: Surface Effects for Metal Jewelry\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13194924-heat-color-set-fire\">Heat, Color, Set &amp; Fire: Surface Effects for Metal Jewelry<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/467565.Mary_Hettmansperger\">Mary Hettmansperger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is another free book for review from Lark Crafts. Thanks, Lark! It is a large 8.5&#8243; x 11&#8243; book with gorgeous violet-lavender endpapers. In flipping through the tome, I noticed that earth tones dominate. Every once in a while there is a spark of color, which is used effectivelyl to catch the reader&#8217;s interest. I also noticed a lot of spiral motifs in the book.<\/p>\n<p>After the introduction, which mostly sells the book and doesn&#8217;t introduce the author much, the book launches right into a section on materials (pg.8-27). This section is well illustrated and I particularly liked the subheading fonts. The section is also LONG and includes photos of items such as Liver of Sulfur, gloves and earplugs, disk cutter &amp; punches, tripod for firing and a bench grinder. Interspersed with these scary looking tools are photos of jewelry, presumably to soften the blow for a new jeweler.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09 The Basic Techniques section is also quite long (pg.29-51). Each part of the Basic Techniques section gives step by step instructions for creating a new texture or applying a technique and then shows an example of the end result. I am pleased the author and publisher thought it was worthwhile to document and illustrate these foundation sections so thoroughly.<\/p>\n<p>There are 21 projects included, each spanning about 4 pages. Lots of illustrations and drawings are included with each project. Templates are frequently included as well and variations are shown in photos to spark creativity. I like the Colored Tin Collection project, the Mixed Metal Bracelet project, especially the variations, and the Orange Enamel Choker, though I might want to put the pendant on a different chain.<\/p>\n<p>This seems to be a great book for adding texture to your metal projects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/591995-jayel\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=artquiltcom-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=1454700165&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heat, Color, Set &amp; Fire: Surface Effects for Metal Jewelry by Mary Hettmansperger This is another free book for review from Lark Crafts. Thanks, Lark! It is a large 8.5&#8243; x 11&#8243; book with gorgeous violet-lavender endpapers. In flipping through the tome, I noticed that earth tones dominate. Every once in a while there is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/book-review-heat-color-set-fire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book Review: Heat, Color, Set &#038; Fire&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[401],"tags":[6,86],"class_list":["post-13117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-401","tag-book-review","tag-off-topic-crafts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}