Virginia’s Angie Wiggins takes advantage of every scrap of silkscreened polymer at the end of the day.
Sorted into colorways and backed with a layer of solid color clay for strength, the tiniest leftovers become useful and decorative napkin rings and coasters.
You’ll be surprised at what polymer clay can become in the hands of the experts we cover in this week’s StudioMojo. Discover awesome possibilities in what you thought were your most flawsome efforts.
New Mexico teacher Gael Keyes says she can’t get away from schools, even on vacation.
Gael has developed her own method of book-matching bits of scraps. Even small remnants of canes make elaborate and unique patterns. They dive under and around a found branch, happy to be back in school.
What’s the perfect attire for vet school functions? UK’s Debby Wakley (debbeadsjewellery) sent her daughter off with these dairy cow earrings, a perfect accent for any farm attire.
They began with a flat cutout from CraftyThread. Deb brought the shapes to life with some sculpting, colors, eyes, and horns. She obviously knows her farm animals.
I don’t imagine a stampede to the cutter store but don’t you love a gift that’s so perfectly suited? Polymer at its best.
Maryland’s Linda Loew cleaned the pan pastel residue from her sponges directly onto a slab of light clay.
Here’s the result of her abstract clean-up paired with other extraneous bits and turned into painterly earrings and pendant.
Sometimes our scraps scream to be saved.
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Hawaii’s Christi Friesen celebrates Shark Week with a special collection of her ghoulies and says, “We’re gonna need a cuter boat!”
A week with grandsons has changed my perspective and educated me. I’ll be sorting out what I learned and sharing what I fished for and caught online in StudioMojo. Suhweet edition.
Wales’ Ellen Randall lets you zoom right in on her delicate works. She has a steady hand and a deft touch that position each stem and leaf and dot in its rightful place on her earrings. Not many of us can achieve such neatness.
Luckily there’s room for us more ham-handed, slap-dash types. “It takes all kinds,” as they say.
Still, Ellen’s steady small compositions reassure us that perfection still exists in a very imperfect world.
Talk about a statement necklace! This piece from California’s Phil Porter (philporterartjewelry) is unabashedly dramatic.
It makes a chin up, shoulders back, look-at-me entrance. Juicy colors, nested spikes, and tubes of dots wrapped up with a flourish of curly tendrils. Let the party begin.
It’s Friday and Phil’s necklace arrives just in time for our Saturday party over at StudioMojo. Mojoers scoured the hottest studios and the coolest shows to start the summer with color and surprise. Join the party.
Australia’s Heidi Helyard’s smooth droplets of bright colors poke up through perfect holes in a heavily textured white circle of clay.
A fantastic volcanic eruption? The mischievous imaginings of a happy child bubbling up? A clever girl fooling around?
Heidi’s simple pendant doesn’t rely on her clay skills. It leans on whimsy and spirit and fun.
Oregon’s Lea Gordiner (jibeaux) has fussed and fiddled with this dog sculpture and she may not be done yet.
She gave the head a plaintive twist and sealed the deal with a ready leash. Lea knows her dogs. Dressed and ready. Who could refuse?
You can see how Lea pondered every move in her work-in-progress shots on Instagram.
StudioMojo will look at lots of ideas being formulated, trends emerging, works-in-progress this week. That’s not to say you have to follow the crowd. In fact, we urge the opposite. Join us to see why.
