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SandrART’s Croatian summertime polymer playthings remind us what fun in the studio is all about. Forget serious and studied. Let your fingers do the walking and play.
Her bright colored fish on strings are simple and childlike. Her graduated band of layered polymer winds around to create an aerodynamic sealife pendant.
SandrART’s site is full of experiments that show a joyful approach to clay that we sometimes forget. Go fish!
Look over the shoulder of the Finnish polymer clay artist, Raija Korpela who writes the blog, Turha Luulo. Using mostly simple shapes and clay cutters, she combines blends and cutout designs in unusual ways. A strong color sense brings sophistication to her design exercises.
You can tell that she’s exhuberant about polymer’s possibilities and her enthusiasm is contagious. Here’s her Flickr page.
If you can find her name, send it along. My Finnish is rusty. Eva Menager sent the link along.
Libby Mills just pulled this beauty out of the oven and it has comes to you with a story.
The color palette she selected from her Moo cards! She selected 50 Colourlovers palettes that she loved and had a set made to use for inspiration and later to use as jewelry tags.
It’s a traveling personal paint sample set. Pick a card from your deck for instant inspiration. (These snapshop colors aren’t accurate but you get the idea.)
Libby’s background textures came from tablemate Laurie Propheter who uses textured fabric swatches to impress into clay. (Laurie has a great selection that she sells on Etsy.) A few extrusions later (see the canes) and Libby’s perked up her palette.
Simple designs like these polymer disks from Israel’s Victoria Slutsky (visart-dali) stack up to sweet simple pendants.
Graduated circles of textured clay in muted shades are accented with pigment powders and topped off with a glass bead. How effective simplicity can be! See Victoria’s new collection on her Etsy site and her Flickr page.
Because my vacation mates are serging and sewing I’m drawn to France’s Cathy (Dumauvobleu) whose pendants resemble quilted and collaged fabrics. Here’s her Etsy shop.
Cathy textures layered and collaged canes and strips of colors to achieve a sunny mix that blends into a cohesive design.
The link comes to us from Betsy Baker. Betsy’s published some new work and a couple of tutorials that you’ll want to examine.
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