This French polymer clay bead from Céline Charuau at Parole de Pate reminds me of a beachball. There’s a companion tutorial that shows a clever way of making these and I’m intrigued by the necklace. Though the round beads are all the same size, the random combinations of extruded colors make the resulting beads randomly striped.
It’s hard to explain but you’ll get the idea from the pictures.
I abandoned my husband at the beach to find a McDonald’s internet connection. He’s fishing. He won’t notice that I’m gone but I’d better get back. We’re heading home tomorrow.
Did you see Tina Holden’s link to Joan Tayler’s sand dollar cane tutorial?
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one of our best polymerclay artist!
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Gris bleu( http://grisbleu.canalblog.com/ ), céline, you’ve already written about her!
still an amazing soul, like our Cristalline ( http://cristalline.blogspot.com/ ) publishing her first book in french!
See you soon!
Magnifique…
Now I want to try that, just so that I can aligner les spaghettis!
Her web name is gRisBleu; I don’t know her name but her blog site is: http://grisbleu.canalblog.com/
And her work is original happy and full of ideas.
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artist – gRiS bLEu – http://grisbleu.canalblog.com/
The instructions come from the Grisbleu website – some other great tuts on there too.
http://grisbleu.canalblog.com/
Also there’s some lovely work on grisbleu’s flickr account
http://www.flickr.com/photos/grisbleu/
Grisbleu is the artist you are looking for .She makes marvelous things with polymer clay and wire. To see more
http://grisbleu.canalblog.com/archives/2008/08/index.html
I knew that I’d seen gris bleu before on PCD. You wrote about her in September 2008 (the search button is very handy).
The tutorial refers to montgolfières. The word montgolfière in French refers to a hot air balloon. It is named after the Montgolfière brothers who first invented the hot air balloon.
I’m so happy to read this post about one of our best french polymer clay artist !! I love her blog, full of color and real personnal identity …
POR FABOR SI ES POSIBLE ME PUEDES ENSEÑAR MURRIÑAS, TE LO AGRADESCO MUCHO ADIOS____