When she started experimenting with translucent polymer, her work took a turn to amber and imitative glass. She’s come up with some innovative methods and clever solutions for making hollow beads and she’s not done playing yet.
If translucent beads have been calling you, take a look at her tutorials. I bought one tutorial to test and now I want to know all her tricks. Headpins? Disks? Bumpy beads? She continues to turn out tutorials. Here’s her Etsy shop and her Facebook page.
Hope you didn’t have other plans for the weekend because you may be distracted.
Katrin Neumaier is hooked on Pardo translucent clay and she's becoming expert at showing off its glowing properties with these brand new beads and watery earrings. Here's her polymer beach glass from October. The recent hollow forms make the clay even more delicate and ethereal looking as she pushes Pardo…
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…
We finish the week with Bettina Welker's jellyfish earrings that look like they were made to go with Wendy Malinow's beach glass necklace from Tuesday's post. Have we spotted a translucent trend? Are sea creatures in floating to the top (bad pun) in the polymer world? Bettina's graceful hollow forms…
Wonderful work, Amber! And thank you for this precious information about tutorials on imitative glass, Cynthia! I know what I’ll be busy with this weekend….
OMG! I can’t wait to try these techniques! I thought I’d just “glance” at this before leaving for work. I’ll be thinking & designing in my head all day!!!
What a wonderfully novel and creative way of using liquid Kato clay, Amber. I ordered 2 tutes and they are so well written and illustrated including pointing out possible pitfalls and problems. It takes faux glass another step beyond Sharon Solly’s work, she created fabulous solid beads. I can’t wait to get stuck into it once I can see my bench again.
I don’t offer them as a free tutorial on Youtube, but I did recently completely redo both of my faux glass hollow bead tutorials with new pictures/instructions – they’re both available in my Etsy shop (I changed the shop name to CraftWithClay in 2021) ?
Sonya's Polymer Creations ,
Wonderful work, Amber! And thank you for this precious information about tutorials on imitative glass, Cynthia! I know what I’ll be busy with this weekend….
Amber ,
Thank you, Sonya! I hope you have fun with it
Cathy Graziano ,
OMG! I can’t wait to try these techniques! I thought I’d just “glance” at this before leaving for work. I’ll be thinking & designing in my head all day!!!
Amber ,
I’d love to see what you come up with, Cathy!
Randee M Ketzel ,
Saw these on the ClayLessons site and thought they were EXTREMELY clever–innovations abound!
Amber ,
I’m glad you liked them, Randee
Your Draconite pendants are amazing!
Bettina Welker ,
I had to buy it as well last week – just out of curiosity – it’s a great tutorial – very clever
Amber ,
Thank you, Bettina
Sabine Spiesser ,
What a wonderfully novel and creative way of using liquid Kato clay, Amber. I ordered 2 tutes and they are so well written and illustrated including pointing out possible pitfalls and problems. It takes faux glass another step beyond Sharon Solly’s work, she created fabulous solid beads. I can’t wait to get stuck into it once I can see my bench again.
Dyan Barrett ,
one word , WOW
shedvl26 ,
Why doesn’t someone post a free tutorial on you tube? Is she the only one that knows how to do this!
Amber ,
I don’t offer them as a free tutorial on Youtube, but I did recently completely redo both of my faux glass hollow bead tutorials with new pictures/instructions – they’re both available in my Etsy shop (I changed the shop name to CraftWithClay in 2021) ?