It’s been a fruitful week for Ontario’s Seanna Bettencourt (thepolymergarden) as she launches into week 2 of a 33-week challenge. She devoted this week to improve the process. Seanna’s cane-slice petals gently cup the buds.
First came the design and petal making. Assembling was too fiddly and intensive for production. She refined and refined until, like Goldilocks, she got it just right. Here’s the finished product.
Sunny days may inspire you to dig out the translucent clay like UK’s Belinda Ashton did.
Light streaming through thin colorful polymer is a wonderful Monday project. Belinda has gone thinner and brighter with each of her experiments. These flower petal shapes glow.
Hello, Monday!
Montreal’s Isabelle Masse (tribu.urbaine) updates the cameo with these polymer dangles. Or are they coneheads? Very modern either way.
The shop name translates to “Urban Tribe” and she’s true to the name. She mixes her media with care. There’s an appealing grunge about her works.
Her doctor told her that she needed to move to feel better. He was right and she hasn’t stopped.
This week’s StudioMojo delivers a heap of new faces, classes, and ideas. I dig deep so that you can save your fingers for the studio. This week we talk about how your work changes you and why you need to continue. Keep on!
Maryland’s Ali Bojanowski (bycamelliadesign) drapes red, white, and blue into patriotic earrings for Memorial Day.
Granted, it will take longer than the few seconds that Ali shows here.
But fast forward to the end of May, and you could be sporting these flag buntings on your ears in the town parade.
Folded, draped, and wrinkled polymer is quite fashionable this year.
Julie Eakes loves to pixelate images. In many of her works, she divides an image into squares and reassembles the pieces into a whole again. That’s the way her brain works.
Thirty-six polymer artists were given 3″x3″ drawings to replicate in the polymer colors and techniques of their choosing. Follow the pattern that you are given. “I’ll screw it up,” each of us thought. It’s a daunting task. It will never work.
But it does.
All those hands, all those colors and textures pull together. It’s a 36″x36″ proof of what we can do.
This is Julie’s tenth group puzzle and they keep getting better.
What an odd assortment of goodies I’ve gathered for StudioMojo this weekend. Everything from river rocks to Danish bowls. It all makes sense from our peculiar polymer perspective.
Join me and other seriously curious polymer folks at StudioMojo!
Phoebe (Otie & Co) introduces breezy basketweaves into her swingy earrings.
The texture adds hints of lazy days, picnic baskets, and porch furniture.
Phoebe started making boho baby art when she first started. That quickly morphed into baby mama jewelry and art.
Visit her IG for a taste of summer.
Catch a good look at these shimmering hollow big beads from Boston’s Betsy Baker (StonehouseStudio). She made this labor-intensive patterned series during the lockdown.
“Now that life and shows are getting back to normal, I won’t have time,” she says.
Seclusion also gave Betsy time to dabble in designing and making dresses. Take a look at her Instagram.
Are there favorites that you’ll have to set aside now that demands for your time are changing?
StudioMojo just got flashier and more fun! After 10 years, it was time to shake things up.
This week there’s everything from Mother’s Day micro mosaics to instructions for making your own polymer clay.
Throw in some new Corlite, polymer painting, and extruded earrings and you’re charged up and ready to launch yourself forward with gusto.
Join us for this Saturday morning shot-in-the-arm.
Michigan’s Jess Erickson (cryingheartcraftco) and her young daughter show off the scrap flowers they cut out to decorate her bedroom.
I get misty thinking about how my daughter and I discovered polymer together as we made cakes and pizzas for her dollhouse.
There’s no better way to boost a kid’s confidence than to decorate their space with bright happy memories of creative times together.
