Florida’s Lynn Yuhr (the FlyingSquirrelStudio) explores liquid polymers. “What if?” is her guiding principle. In this case, Lynn dotted, painted and stamped liquid polymer over thin translucent. She wanted the metal grid behind the veneer to show through so she used a light touch and kept the patterns sparse with plenty of translucent showing. The […] Read more
Meg Newberg has been on a translucent jag with her Polymer Clay Workshop monthly tutorials lately. If you like canes, Meg’s monthly dose of new ideas via email can fuel your cane brain at a very reasonable price. You can glean some translucent ideas from her YouTube video (no audio) but you’ll need the written tutorial to […] Read more
These samples come from Connecticut’s Lisa Gauthier, a student in Marie Segal’s Cernit Translucent 2017 class. Glass-like layers that reveal more color below remind us of the possibilities of the clay and may make you want to try your hand at it. The flower and butterfly cane slices appliqued on came from another student, Seana […] Read more
Germany’s Kathrin Neumaier has moved on from simple translucent beads to more complex shapes like the pale hollow bead below which she has electro-formed with copper.Her solid imitative glass drop earrings have a warm mellow glow about them. Kathrin explains that her collection of long Soft String polymer necklaces are colored with inks (as shown here) or […] Read more
No matter how hard you try not to catch it, Translucent Fever is in the spring air (in this hemisphere anyway). Once you come in contact (Marie Segal got it going) then you start encountering glassy pastel examples everywhere. These stacked petal earrings are from Spain’s Manon van Kempen on Instagram. Manon has a feel for flowers […] Read more
Kathrin Neumaier taunts us with more of her tantalizing Pardo translucent creations. This time she shows thin color-blended petals gathered and suspended from earwires. Makes you think of projects to try for spring, doesn’t it? This hummingbird seems to be attracted to the flowers! It’s a big cane (2 1/2″ tall and 6″ wide) from […] Read more
These polymer color chips scattered around Seth Savarick’s work area look like beach glass or Italian ice. They’re what Seth calls his “gossamer gills” and to create shapes he stacks paper-thin multicolor layers of the baked translucent clay. It’s hard to explain (especially late at night). Here are a few pictures of his collaboration with Robert […] Read more
Masako Inabe’s translucent goldfish truly floats on one of her polymer clay beads. And her butterfly flutters on another. Donna Kato sent in these pictures taken at Carnival ’07. “I think that goldfish bead is the most beautiful polymer bead I’ve ever seen. It’s so Japanese,” says Donna. (There are more pictures of it in […] Read more
Links from April 2, 2022 StudioMojo Sofi tutorial – https://sofiboutik.company.site/Tutoriel-Sautoir-Way-p456794589 Wiwat scrap class – https://sofiboutik.company.site/Tutoriel-Sautoir-Way-p456794589 Bishoff class – Pellicciotto tangle for Baltimore ACC – https://www.instagram.com/p/CbtMCwQp-Qn/ Del Roussel – wrap ring Margaret Polcawich – sculpture Tracy Holmes – Breakthroughcolour Dan Cormier on IG – dancormierpolymerclay Anne-Sophie Reaud Lefevre (Anso_creations) Sarah Wilbanks video Georg Dinkel video
Dallas’ Lisa (makesmalltalk) has been draping, wrinkling, and wrapping polymer for some time. As the Olympics have us saying this week, “She nailed it,” with this translucent striped vessel. Lisa had been creating big earrings but now she’s gone even bigger. Can’t you see it filled with brushes or tools? Or hanging with a light […] Read more
