Florida’s Lorraine Vogel (WiredOrchid) brings us a springy look with her combination of layered surface techniques. If lightly layered beach motifs speak to you, Lorraine’s tutorials let you in on her methods
Whether it’s batiks, transfers or a mix of media and methods, Lorraine builds over a light clay, adding and subtracting until she reaches a tropical mix of color and shape.
Lorraine Vogel's polymer pendants and earrings glow with graceful shapes and layered colors that make me envious. Look closely and you may spot tricks she's learned from tutorials by Lynda Moseley and Ginger Davis Allman but the stamps, the carving and the colors are distinctly her own. She uses tutorials in…
Lorraine Vogel (WiredOrchid) brings us more breezy summer batiks. You can feel her home's Florida influence in the leaves and flowers in her designs. Lorraine's been perfecting her own methods using inks and stamps in ways that go beyond shabby chic beads which rely on paints. She's tried other rustic…
The Zen of these earrings from Florida's Lorraine Vogel (wiredorchid) offers us a smooth transition to Monday. She embeds rings into the tops of satisfying painted shapes. They feel balanced and swingy. A vacation vibe on your ears. The painted surfaces are some combination of her batik and pretty grunge…
Thank you, Cynthia! It was a thrill to see this feature while I’m on vacation. A big surprise! I appreciate your continued support of our polymer clay community.
Lorraine Vogel ,
Thank you, Cynthia! It was a thrill to see this feature while I’m on vacation. A big surprise! I appreciate your continued support of our polymer clay community.