Have you got a “thing” for dots? Join the crowd. Slovenia’s Petra Volavšek (oceana_jewelry) is one of us!
She gathers her dots into many configurations, making them collide in an unending array of patterns. Monochrome or multicolored dots in a variety of sizes cluster to form jewelry with soothing patterns that look like they may have escaped from a chemistry lab. Let’s see where she takes her experiments next.
Today we skinny dip with Ohio’s Morgan McGoff (skinny.dip.jewelry).
She’s grown up swimming comfortably in an ocean of technology. “The skinny” refers to remaining true to her naked, authentic self. Her studio is smack dab in the middle of her living room.
Morgan has an art and photography background. She started with polymer in 2018 gathering twelve thousand followers along the way as well as a Patreon following.
She makes sleek, monochromatic jewelry with clever twists and tweaks. She sells!
She finds her community online. Morgan is today’s polymer artist.
We’ll look at other au courant polymer artists in this Saturday’s StudioMojo. Did you know that Etsy doubled its revenue in 2020?
What do the numbers mean to you? Join us and hang on as we sort it out.
Indiana’s Riley (RiClayCollection) gets ready for Mothers Day with a twist.
She gives a narrow pale ribbon of polymer a slight twist and ends the earrings with a delicate matching ball. The effect is both contemporary and classic.
Riley is an arts fundraiser and finds herself surrounded by inspiration. She started with clay during quarantine.
Jupiter and Saturn are having their “Great Conjunction” so it’s no wonder that I’m seeing celestial implications in these earrings (Sage Danya studs) from Ishita Singh (@shop_rangeen)
Light and shadow, long days and short. “Ish” is from North Carolina by way of India. Opposite sides of the world, like planets, don’t get together very often.
You know me, I love a simple design that suddenly gets complicated. Half circles stacked throw shadows that become celestial.
Germany’s Eva Thissen has moved to tone-on-tone flowers and birds for her latest series of pendants and earrings.
Eva finds that in stark white, the flowers and bird relief looks flat so she settled on this cream color. You have to move in close to see the exquisite detail on her small monochrome jewelry.
Eva calls herself an illustrator and considers these polymer illustrations. More illustrated goods on Etsy.
Boston’s Betsy Baker makes her Manhattan debut June 8 & 9 at the Craft New York show.
Merely visiting her site makes you feel much more chic and sophisticated. Betsy limits her palette to a monochromatic mix set against grunge textures. Often there’s a hidden bit of silver and gold sparkle that appears like buried treasure.
Betsy branched out from her Boston market to the ACC shows and now she’s taking on New York. Betsy thinks big! If you want to see what that looks like, read her site and Instagram.
This use of Angela Schwer’s (DillyPad) polymer Sea Star wall tile isn’t really fair because it has great movement and texture in its monochrome simplicity.
What’s not fair is that today it feels like something similar is scratching the back of my throat. I guess international travel was more stressful than I thought.
So go look at the cool organic shapes Angela comes up with while I recuperate.
