Florida’s Pamela Carman covers an 18″ tall vase with a garden of polymer flowers. She upcycles the container by applying a base layer of solid-color polymer that she textures. Over that she adds slices of canes (she must have a large stash) letting the blue background show through and unify the design.

Containers, vessels, ceramic fish and animals call to Pamela and you can see the hundreds of objects she’s rescued by covering them with updated colors and her own vision. You’ll find them all on Flickr and HiveMind plus Pinterest.

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Flowery polymer teapot

Florida's Pamela Carman makes a flowery pot of tea on a spring Monday. A visit to her Flickr site shows you the vases, bottles, pots, birdhouses and fish shapes that she covers with polymer. Usually she uses hundreds of slices of small canes to build her images. Her stash of neatly stored…

Polymer fins and feathers

South Florida's Pamela Carman upcycles ceramic sculptures and vases, covering them with complex polymer cane slices mixed with metal leaf. The result is busy, beautiful fish (this one is 14-inches long) and bright finely-feathered birds (this Chickeechirp is 6-inches long). Pamela says that she has a blast making these sculptures…

Petal power

It takes quite a stash of small colorful petal canes to create a bouquet like this polymer-on-wood painting by Forida's Pamela Carman. She's textured the background on a 12" x 12" panel. The wallpaper and the red tablecloth plus the retro vase give the composition a feeling of depth and…