by Cynthia Tinapple on April 30, 2007 · 2 comments
While Anne White has plenty of lovely polymer clay eye candy on her Blue Dog Beads and Flickr sites, what intrigues me most is her "cremains" pendant and keepsake beads.
For the keepsake beads, Anne mixes dried flower petals from a customer’s significant event with polymer clay and creates beads from the mix. For this "cremains" pendant, she embedded a few of the cremated ashes of a friend’s pet.
While this is certainly a step beyond mixing spices, dirt, or crayons into clay, it’s a rather nice memento. And I for one like the idea of being forever bonded with polymer clay.
You can blame Kim Cavender for sending this link to start us thinking this week.
by Cynthia Tinapple on April 27, 2007 · 0 comments
Uh-oh…this always happens. I’m so smitten with a piece of polymer clay art that I must try it myself. Naturally I started looking at doll sculpture tutorials after yesterday’s post.
Deborah McCain offers a step-by-step face sculpting tutorial on her site as well as some full-body lessons. She makes it look so easy.
McCain’s links also took me to a supplier who sells baby body and face push molds. Luckily, reading all this information has rid me of the urge to sculpt and given me a greater appreciation of others’ talents. Have a lovely weekend.
by Cynthia Tinapple on April 26, 2007 · 6 comments
I’m skeptical about this post because I know little about doll artists and because I’m simply captivated by these polymer clay babies by Cynthia Malbon.
Malbon sells resin versions of her works to a wider market and her name somehow always appears with Richard Simmons. I learned little about the artist herself and that makes me nervous.
Be that as it may, I am fascinated by the realism achieved by great doll makers like Malbon, Camille Allen, Jodi and Richard Creager, Annie Wahl and others listed on the NAIDA site.
If you can tell us more about this artist, please send your comments along. Thanks to Barbara Fajardo for the link.
More history from Hollie’s collection. I wonder if you can identify this artist’s early work.
The pin on the right is an early 3D diorama from a series that the artist continued for several years. And the full-size mask is covered with a delightful variety of face cane and pattern slices.
Click here to go the artist’s current site. Surprised?
