When I asked extruder extraordinaire Meisha Barbee what kind of extruder setup she had, she admitted that her equipment was nothing special. She works in small batches and spends more time selecting colors and building a pattern library of small canes than she spends in extruding. Meisha sent along a luscious sampling of her current […] Read more
San Diego’s Meisha Barbee showed me her new polymer clay circle pendants in colors that are a bit brighter than her earlier palettes. She sent along these Serenity pendants as well. She’s tweaked the colors while continuing her distinctive combinations of extrusions, canes and textures. Meisha promised to rank “launch my website” high on her […] Read more
By the end of last week, you could spot Meisha Barbee’s work on the neck of many Synergy shoppers. She combines simple canes and soothing colors in graphic ways with subtle textures woven in. The modern minimalist design continues through her findings. The harmony and detail in these pieces make them very pleasing to wear. […] Read more
California’s Meisha Barbee has been having some summer fun. You might not recognize these leaves as hers but she’s pushing her boundaries. Meisha uses mokume gane veins interspersed with textured leaf parts imprinted with the tread on her shoe. Go back on her Instagram and you’ll see the decorations for her summer glow-in-the-dark party. Meisha’s […] Read more
These canes, veneers and finished pieces come from a student (not sure which one) in the small intensive classes with Meisha Barbee, Dayle Doroshow and Julie Eakes in Durfort, France. What luscious colors and fashionable floral shapes with a very French feeling! Thumb through Julie’s gorgeous photos on Facebook to see how a week with […] Read more
California’s Meisha Barbee began this brooch with a slice of stripes in her wonderful colors. I might have stopped there but she wanted to push on. She was fond of her silicone trivet with a bubble pattern (strange in-process shot) so she made a mold of it and used that mold to create a mokume gane […] Read more
California’s Meisha Barbee took Carol Simmons flower class when Carol came to San Diego in early April. You can spot Carol’s refined kaleidoscopic methods in a heartbeat. Meisha carried out the project in her own distinctive palette and with a quirky stripe here and a peppy dot there. Her palette of colors mixed with Carol’s instructions look perfect […] Read more
Meisha Barbee takes her bright colors down a notch for this recent series. She admits that she’s found a new love in Premo Gray Granite with its speckles buried in a rich translucent polymer. She’s fond of thinning sheets of granite and overlaying them on other colors for depth. You’ll note resonances of Jana Roberts […] Read more
Meisha Barbee’s patterns in new neutral colors are so luscious that you might not notice that she’s veered way off from her normal brights. Here’s a little StudioMojo minute video from Meisha on how she extends the use of her templates beyond their standard sizes. Meisha’s on Facebook, Pinterest and in Google images.
Syndee Holt calls last week’s free tutorial on the Sculpey site the Meisha Squish but doesn’t the Meisha Mash sound better? Syndee and Meisha Barbee devised this method as they sat at the same worktable cleaning up their scrap. It’s sloppy, fast mokume gane with the best colors (Syndee even provides the recipes) and easy steps. What a way […] Read more
