Is your wavy blade feeling neglected? Is it calling to you from the back of a crowded drawer?
UK’s Nadege Honey gives ho-hum stripes some zig-zag pizazz by setting the straight blade aside and using a wavy one instead as she creates a slab of pattern.
Not rocket science but a welcome change.
It’s the dots and the unbridled cheeriness of these vases from Michigan’s Holly and Jake Klaus (Sun_sprinkles) that got me going.
It’s also because I also finally found an adhesive that will secure polymer like this in place. I know this because I tried to remove a polymer piece I accidentally glued a tile and could not, no way, no how.
I don’t recommend products on PCD so I’ll direct you over to StudioMojo for that info. Drop me an email if you’d like a free sneak peek.
You probably wouldn’t have thought that Texas’ Sally Kirk (Blossomandclay) would build her intricate quilt this way. My head goes right to extrusion but no, I was wrong.
Sally is considering cutting this slab up into a collection that lots of people can share. Kind of a reverse quilting bee.
The quilt took 30 hours to assemble and she’ll be cutting it up for sale in October.
Sally calls it her Insanity quilt.
Jump on over to StudioMojo.org for a weekend dose of creativity. We’ll shop the big shows, introduce ourselves to the new sellers and take a look at their wares…all from the comfort of home.
This tray of earrings from Utah’s Mary Anne Loveless keeps the colors under control in a most appealing way. The graduated backgrounds are tied together into neat dangles held together visually by contrasting stripes.
Is it the vertical blends that make these feel so right? The blends run in opposite directions on the left and right dangles. There’s a color lesson here.
A discarded 11″ x 27″ cabinet door leaning against the garage wall called to Kathy Koontz (Flowertownoriginals). The door begged for a second chance and Kathy was in a mood to grant it.
She painted the door and scooped up all the scrappy polymer bits lying around.
Stems and leaves grew first. Then the scraps organized themselves into jolly layered blooms.
The playful process made Kathy remember how much fun wall art can be.
Do you have a thing for opals? Me too. The flash of color, the mystery. In college, as I gestured enthusiastically my hand brushed against a stucco wall and my opal Christmas ring shattered. That got me started.
Melbourne’s Leanne Fergeus (leannefergeusart) has explored the alchemy of polymer opals. She’s still experimenting and she’s mighty close.
LA’s Nomi Isak (nomiisak) combines inclusions and translucent, layers and colors, rough edges and cutouts into a delightful bowl. Rather than carefully exploring each ingredient on its own, she gives them a whirl all at once and it works.
Nomi gets out of her own way. Sounds easy but for some of us, it isn’t.
This week’s StudioMojo is about that same concept. Now more than ever we shuffle fires, storms, wars, worries, and to-do lists into the background. How do you shove all that aside to play? Join us as we find a way.
Australia’s Bron (bombalabee) knows her birds. These are rainbow bee-eaters. Other species fly in and out of her shop – pin robins, black cockatoos, rosellas, macaws, parrots, magpies, and more.
Bron layers on polymer feathers with a birder’s eye for detail, shapes, and colors. Her website is launching this month. Welcome her.
What’s on your feeder?
Minnesota’s Sherstin Schwartz (lifeofapaintbrush) turns polymer on and off.
I’ve always been fascinated by glow-in-the-dark clays and paints but have I ever tried them? No. Have you?
There she goes again, getting us all psyched with her alien flowers and otherworldly gardens. Her paints and powders are from Technoglow.
Argentina’s Turkana (turkanajoyeria) uses translucent clay in her extruded cane (the retro cane developed by Bettina Welker).
Turkana’s designs have a carefree looseness in contemporary colors that appeal on an uptight Monday morning. Let’s let the light in.
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