by Cynthia Tinapple on September 28, 2007 · 7 comments
The first thing you have to know about these polymer clay "Wiiremote" earrings is that they’re replicas of a very popular video game controller. They are made by Thiakosia and sold on Etsy. These clever copies are a hit, appearing on every geek and gadget site on the internet…they’re geektastic.
The second thing you need to [...]
by Cynthia Tinapple on September 27, 2007 · 7 comments
Browsing the Philadelphia Polymer Clay Guild’s blog and Flickr sites is like attending a virtual meeting, this month with Donna Kato.
There’s a wealth of inspiration on the site…like these necklaces by Ellen Marshall (left) and Susan Gross (right). Jeff Dever will teach a sold out class next week.
Kudos to the guild for delivering such up-to-the-minute [...]
by Cynthia Tinapple on September 26, 2007 · 9 comments
When Texas artist Elizabeth Bonura couldn’t find a suitable sculpture for the top of her wedding cake, she created one for herself out of polymer clay and then started a business making them for others. She has been sculpting since 1994.
A recent project – life size and with a two-week deadline – had her [...]
by Cynthia Tinapple on September 25, 2007 · 9 comments
Here are two examples of a branch of polymer art that we sometimes overlook – religious art. The Lord Shiva sculpture is by Spanish polymer clay artist, Maria Saiz, on Craftster and Flickr which was sent in by Lea Hernandez.
Iowa’s Patricia Kimle has published a second web site, PreciousText, for her new line of fine [...]
by Cynthia Tinapple on September 24, 2007 · 3 comments
I’m so pleased to discover that Marie Siegel has a new site which includes some of her recent polymer clay work. Who else can claim to have crocheted a polymer clay sweater or to have worked in the medium since 1971?
"At one point I had 18 employees and sold to Bullocks, Macy’s, Nordstrom’s, the Icing, [...]
by Cynthia Tinapple on September 21, 2007 · 3 comments
I’m in New York, mecca for art blogging. Last night I connected with other bloggers at an American Craft Council salon event to hear about what happens when craft traditions and craft new wave colide as they have on the internet. About 40 bloggers from Park Slope and Brooklyn listened as the owners of [...]
by Cynthia Tinapple on September 20, 2007 · 6 comments
Take a peek at Grant Diffendaffer’s updated site where his new polymer clay work and upcoming book are featured. His blog is called Many Parts – the definition of poly-mer, get it?
Grant’s Polymer Clay Beads book will be out from Lark Books in January and it boasts twenty different beadmaking techniques and thirteen pieces of [...]
by Cynthia Tinapple on September 19, 2007 · 1 comment
Oh to be this playful and to be making a polymer clay Bambi necklace like this one by Emmuzka of Helsinki, Finland. Make no mistake Emmuzka is a clay novice, but a novice with a sense of style and whimsy. Emmuzka’s experiment in making fairy wings for Barbie dolls is very sweet too.
If I [...]