The UK’s Fiona Abel Smith is fishing for something on Instagram. This is no ordinary polymer fish pendant. Fiona added the details over a Skinner blend-covered sculpture. The stripes are patterned cane slices inlaid into the blend.
Fiona’s fish has personality and sparkle and believable tropical colors. She’s had some practice. Look at this school of fish she made a while back. Practice makes perfect.
Since my network is taunting me with an intermittent signal, we’ll lean on New York’s Doreen Gay Kassel for a post that requires few words and a quick upload.
Just look at those beads! The colors and textures beg us to fondle them. You can look more closely on Instagram.
Wifi repairman has been called! I had to walk over to my studio to post. They have a fiber connection that has spoiled me.
Russia’s Tatyana Parshikova (seventh-heaven) brings us a harvest of watermelons.
Only a couple the varying sized melons have been cut to reveal their fruit. A clever treatment with occasional dots of red mixed in. This necklace catches your attention.
See Tatayana wearing it on Instagram.
Florida’s Lynn Yuhr created this Gone Fishin’ as one of her class samples for 2019’s Bead and Button. In her post about deadlines and creativity, she wonders if the two concepts are compatible and concludes that the two are at odds until you jump in and start.
Lynn listened to feedback about her fish and even though the piece looks complicated, she based a new class on these basic shapes and beginner canes.
Her advice is particularly good for a Monday. Time to jump in and get started.
These inchies from Marta Hugas line up in a lovely graphic way. They’ve been shared and scattered across Europe now that Polimeralia 2018 in Valencia, Spain is over.
Marta writes in her blog and faithfully documents her art. Her methods are different than you might expect. Are these dotted lines hand drawn?
The time with family restored me. Unplugging was a good thing. A long plane ride home helped me switch back into gear to organize this week’s StudioMojo. I’m surprised at how much polymer energy is in the air! Join us and see what I tracked down.
I’m taking my own advice and focusing my attention on family for a few days this week. Not to worry, PCD will be back later this week.
Me and three of my four sisters.
Ontario’s Karen Pasieka has gathered the blooms in her polymer garden into a bright bouquet on a 4×4 tile. See what varieties of flowers she has in her studio garden on Instagram.
Her creation may remind you to run outside and admire summer’s bounty while you can. Karen has returned to her studio to get ready for the fall and holiday shows.
It looks like lots of you got back to the studio this week. StudioMojo is full of links to new works as we try to wring every bit of summer creativity out of this month. We’d love to have you join our Saturday newsletter where we chat about all the fun stuff we couldn’t cram into PCD.
South Australia’s Leah Radlett tales a different approach to mosaics. Her 4″ tiles are composed of round polymer elements.
Nice of Leah to share her in-progress shots. She starts with the background and works inward. which isn’t what you might have expected.
See more of her landscapes on Etsy and Instagram. She calls this one Joyful and says, “I’ve been blessed by so many nice comments about my work and it makes my heart happy to know that people enjoy my art.”
Spokane’s Peggy Rose, one of Meg Newberg’s subscribers, sent in her version of Meg’s newest cane inspiration. Looks like Peggy got it right!
I sometimes gush about Meg’s “cane brain” but you know she’s onto something when her followers can come up with their own versions like this.
As I read about Peggy on her FB I saw that she’s a lampworker too. I’ve messaged her to verify that this is polymer. What’s your guess?
Vancouver Island’s Janet Bouey is experimenting with the veneers she made in Claire Maunsell’s recent class.
If you stack up squares of clay and then cut out the centers with a smaller square cutter, you can add a veneer on the top and bottom of the stack and have yourself a cool and simple hollow bead. The bead will be loose, light and lovely.
Janet puts her own spin on Claire’s ideas and documents interesting results on Instagram, Flickr, and Facebook.
