by Cynthia Tinapple on November 30, 2010 · 4 comments
Janja Prokic spends time in the woods with her chickens, geese, goats and polymer clay. Her pastoral life is played out in her line of fashionable birds. Her models’ hairstyles match their feathered friends’ in dramatic and delightful ways.
The one below is a detailed pink cockatoo and the model is wearing what Janja calls a Silly Cockerel.
Originally from Belgrade, Janja is a jewelry designer who moves between Prague, Czech Republic and St. Malo, France as she studies painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Right now she’s roosting in France.
Follow her migratory patterns on her Flickr gallery (her web site is down) or her Facebook page. Enough with the bird puns. Enjoy.
by Cynthia Tinapple on November 29, 2010 · 9 comments
The video at the right and a storybook accompany the latest polymer creations from Illinois artist Linda Garbe.
As I watched, I got caught up looking at her Dream Machine and admiring her fingers effortlessly building complicated structures. I had to listen a second time to follow her melodious words. While many artists have stories that inform their work, few have documented them in such a thorough and novel way.
Linda created four necklaces called Jewelry With Stories to Tell specifically for Chicago’s One of a Kind show. This one is called Standing in the Center of Spring. Three more necklaces are similarly captured on Linda’s YouTube page. Here’s her Etsy gallery and her home site. Thanks to Dee Wilder who sent along the link.
by Cynthia Tinapple on November 26, 2010 · 7 comments
Today is the year’s biggest shopping day or “Black Friday” as it’s known in the U.S. and Mags Bonham’s polymer purse necklace looked like an appropriate symbol for the day.
There’s even a replica of a tiny Kathleen Dustin evening bag in the group.
Art Jewelry Magazine editor Hazel Wheaton picked these pieces for some of her annual favorites. Mags created a series of “Our Purses, Ourselves” which looks at the items that women choose to lug around in our bags. Here’s her necklace and her charm bracelet that winks at the items we carry with us.
Hang on to your pocketbook and enjoy the weekend!
by Cynthia Tinapple on November 25, 2010 · 4 comments
Kentucky’s Ron Lehocky brings us a turkey heart for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday today. This Thanksgiving marks the fifth anniversary of the heart project.
Ron has made and sold 14,000 polymer clay heart pins to benefit the Kids Center for Pediatric Therapies. Can you imagine making 14,000 hearts in your spare time?
PCD has followed Ron on this project. Read earlier posts here and here. We can be thankful for artists like Ron who put their talents to such good use. He’s gearing up for Christmas and you can email him for a heart here.
I’m thankful for all you loyal PCDers and wish you a Happy Thanksgiving.
