Aren’t you tempted by these in-process photos from France’s Cécile Bos (11Prunes)?
Cecile made 17 or so small canes with distinct geometric elements, all with the same high contrast color in the background. She assembled them into a larger complex cane.
The resulting pattern repeats and gives the cane a fabric feel. The beads made using this method have a delicacy that pulls the eye in to examine.
Put this on your to-do list. We’ll be seeing more of these.
My vacation’s over! This necklace with wild fall colors from Ukraine’s Irina Karminova shows us how vibrant and exciting the season ahead can be if you keep your eyes open.
Irina explains that “I rarely use such shades in my work, but a recent walk in the park inspired me! I saw a bush of fall wild barberry with leaves of pink-purple colors and bright red berries! So unusual and beautiful! And I decided to make it!”
Thanks for coming back for a daily dose of polymer art that will nudge your work forward.
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Vancouver Island’s Janet Bouey shows us how great a collection of scraps can look when gathered into a necklace. She’s in a show on Vancouver Island this weekend.
This photo came as my mountain of scrap from vacation working/playing confronts me. Thanks to Janet, I’ll be covering some extruded tubes for future use. Bake, slice, assemble and somehow those many design decisions, mistakes and all, add up to a visually rich necklace.
I’m checking to see if I remember how to post after a month off. Whew, it all comes back. See you soon.
This picture was just what I needed. Polymer clay shows up on the US Supreme Court in the form of Kathleen Dustin and Ruth Bader Ginsberg at the Smithsonian Art2Wear show.
Go see this tiny but monumental force (RBG) purchasing polymer art from an artistic force (RGB Dustin).
Something in this world is headed in the right direction.
I’m still on hiatus but checking in from time to time. Happy Monday to you.
…miles and miles and miles of heart…as the song goes. Ron Lehocky had a table full of his hearts at Clay Out West. Even as Ron struggles through his own bumps in the road he plods on to reach his goal of 50,000 hearts to support The Kids Project.
StudioMojo will focus on all the people I encountered this week who specialize in saying “YES”. With only a split-second hesitation, they grab at what comes their way and say an emphatic yes. How do they do that?
They follow their gut, their instinct, their heart. I’m fascinated with how diving headlong into whatever comes your way can turn out.
I’m on hiatus from daily posts and having a marvelous time learning how to say yes. Join me over at StudioMojo.
I’ve suffered a curious case of late-onset creativity so you’ll hear from me only intermittently during October. Sometimes my fingers itch to do what I spend so much time talking about.
This 14-year online safari has taken me to all kinds of unlikely destinations and for the next month, I’ll be out West playing with friends and meeting new people.
The car is packed, we’ll get up early and head out on the open road feeling giddy.
No thank you, Monday morning. Nothing, including daily delivery, is assured. I am very grateful for your support of PCD and hope that you’ll check in here and on my Instagram from time to time.
This work-in-progress shot from Alaska’s Katie Way makes my heart sing.
Spot-on colors, straightforward technique. Cut and replace meets updated quilt pattern meets polymer.
It’s an updated of several old ways of working.
That’s what we’ll be talking about on StudioMojo this Saturday. As we become more expert at what we do, we tend to lose our curiosity. We start coloring within the lines of what we know.
The Bonnie Bishoff class I hosted last weekend put a bunch of us back in touch with something new and made us feel full of possibility again. Come on over and learn how to stay curious.
Kansas’ Carol Beal (BeadUnsupervised) gives us this week’s interpretation of Fall.
No two leaves are alike. Some are blended, some bargello or stripes, gradations, mottled. They have sculpted edges and contain a wild palette of unexpected colors.
Her polymer brooches are remarkably real.
They make you want to go outside and take a closer look at what you may have missed.
Mismatched earrings like these from Australia’s Lyne Tilt are all the rage.
Lyne’s designs travel across polymer, metalwork, and paintings without changing. She works in several media, sometimes combining them into a single piece.
It warms our hearts to see her list the late Tory Hughes as a strong influence.
Lyne offers a little show of her veneer process on Instagram.
Oregon’s Angela Schwer swerved off her usual path and ventured into color for this loopy wall sculpture.
Don’t you wonder why after years of making wall art in white only, she was compelled to add pale pinks and yellows with a splash of black?
And she usually sticks to very natural and organic shapes, not mod loops. She says she doesn’t know what came over her.
We’ll have to follow along.
