If you like your geometry with a dash of chaos, take a look at California’s HighLowJewelry.
Sonya Gallardo mixes her chaos with geometry and adds a heaping spoonful of fashion.
Here some squiggles of polymer on black clay roll out into an abstract creation. There’s plenty to admire on her site, on Instagram, and pinterest. This is geometry for minimalists.
The UK’s Jon Burgess brings his computer drawings to polymer in the ways that don’t have the usual hard-edge digital transfer look.
He’s working on ways to camouflage the seams on round and tube beads and hints that he’s working on a tutorial.
If you’re not in love with your phone’s camera and editing software and printing, you may not share Jon’s enthusiasm (and mine). To us the mash-up of polymer and computers looks like a big unexplored territory with lots of possibility.
See Jon’s very personal way of mixing media on Etsy, Facebook and his blog.
Gera Scott Chandler (aMusedStudio) pairs her polymer with materials that are readily available. Not only is kelp plentiful along the BC coast in Canada, but it also appeals to Gera’s penchant for making baskets.
Look closely and you’ll see that she pierces holes along the edges of the polymer bowls. She uses the holes to weave in the strands of kelp that trim her vessels.
Kelp adorns the edge of her popular Halibut Platters as well. The rock and shells and Vancouver Island beach finds make their way into Gera’s work that you can see on Facebook.
Read about how she incorporates the landscape into her work in this recent profile. What calls to you from your landscape?
Samples of cane slices are not usually newsworthy but these translucent pieces from Maryland’s Kelly Russell will have you transfixed.
The patterns have a slightly DNA look. Kelly holds a #5 slice out in the sun and the delicate strands light up.
There’s much that we’re just discovering about building layers of pattern with translucent thanks to Kelly and other experimenters.
If you check her out on Facebook, you’ll also see the stunning results from her recent master class with Carol Simmons.
Each side of Cecelia Leonini’s (ImpastArte) leaf-like beads provides a separate canvas. She uses very different geometric patterns on each surface to create her Leaves of the World necklace.
You may like her in-process photos that show how she shaped each of the 3-sided beads on a single gently curved wire. Here she is on Etsy and Facebook.
This more complex and updated worldview of fall leaves is right on target today. Have a great fall weekend.
Genevieve Williamson reminds us to think beyond “drop” or “dangle”. We can choose “drop” and “dangle”.
Are there other choices we’re overlooking? How are you narrowing your options?
Instagram may be the best place to see how Genevieve thinks through her series. Learn more on her site, Facebook and Pinterest.
Shannon Tabor (Charleston Clay Jewelery) uses her new silkscreen sparingly on these new Tribal Series post earrings.
One slim strip of Punchinella (sequin waste stencils) highlights the African colors and patterns.
See more photos on Facebook and Instagram. You can watch her work with some of these designs on a free video on YouTube.
Kristin Halvorsen’s newest beads from the Hooked on Polymer Facebook page match my FIMO50 party mood.
Kristin’s from Norway and her tube beads are formed from a wild patchwork of bright cane slices. The beads are are made uniform with color-matched metal grommets baked into each of their ends. Here’s Kristin on Pinterest.
The Symposium classes have started and I’m suffering from FIMO FOMO with the rest of you because I’m still adventuring in the city. I’ll join the festivities in earnest on Friday. Meanwhile check the great pictures all over Facebook.
What is FIMO FOMO? It’s the Fear Of Missing Out on the party. But fear not, there’s more coverage to come.
It’s the end of vacation season and if you’re looking for a way to hang onto those memories, take a hint from Puerto Rico’s Sylma Santos-Santori.
It’s not often that a super simple project strikes our fancy but these little polymer magnetic containers with spidery air plants look fashionable and celebratory.
Marble a ball of beach-colored clay, indent a space for a plant, cure in the oven and glue a magnet to the back. Instant scrapbook,
Quick, preserve a little bit of your summer. See what other designs Sylma has devised on Instagram and her site.
Three shades of each color make up this faux dimensional cuff from Petra Nemravova of the Czech Republic. Such happy colors! Petra shows her step-by-step color-mixing and assembly process free on her website.
Of course you’ll want to spend some time in her tutorials and tools departments! There are a couple tutorials in her Etsy shop too.
