Germany’s Vera Kleist Thom twirls extruded strings around a ball of clay and carves (or maybe she just textures) the surfaces so that they look woven. The result is a necklace with a thermal waffle weave accentuated by its muted winter colors. Vera has perfected her woven methods and I’m only guessing about how she makes […] Read more
These wintery leaves from Germany’s Vera Kleist-Thom rely on extruded polymer strings for their color. The oblique cuts at the edges reveal Vera’s palette of dark reds and blues highlighted with a dash of bright yellow. Like the leaves at our feet, seemly simple leaf earrings are more fascinating upon examination. Look at her Flickr pages and you’ll […] Read more
Vera Kleist Thom shows up with this dynamite looking polymer Kameko Vase for our last post from the road. I’ll be home-based tomorrow. Vera’s work makes me want to get back in the studio and make something big and unusual. You too? Terrific muted colors, zooming shapes, slightly retro , updated mosaic and it could […] Read more
You may have to study Vera Kleist’s attractive scribbles necklace to figure out how she did it. The polished polymer lines are surrounded by deep grooves that she’s enhanced with white grout and called To Be Different. Here’s her Etsy link. Your scribbles You readers have been great about sharing data with Judy Belcher and […] Read more
These subtly domed designs from Germany’s Vera Kleist could be either beads or buttons. Vera gives minimal techniques maximum impact with her fashionable color choices and stringing variations. Browse her Flickr and Etsy sites to see where her smart design sense has led her. Thanks to Bettina Welker for the link. What happens in Vegas… […] Read more
“Paciorky means necklace or beads in Ukrainian,” says Christine Bondar (dzjunka online). Christine’s extruded and carved Amazon River polymer beads offer variations on techniques spread by Vera Kleist and Margit Böhmer. You’ll see developments in that part of the world on Maria Petkova’s Bulgarian blog that features artists mostly from Eastern Europe as polymer continues […] Read more
Since several people have inquired about extruded string beads lately, it must be time to feature them again. As luck would have it, the link to Vera Kleist’s “rough cut” extruded bead necklace came to me today via Lindly Haunani. And Annerose Doering had just emailed me the address for Dominique Franceschi’s tutorial (from 2006) […] Read more
Let’s take a break from the red/green palette and traditional designs that surround us this season. Here are three lovely reminders from other areas of the color wheel. Start with the deep rich palette Heather Powers used for her Garnet Kiss beads on the Art Bead Scene blog. Move to Jana Roberts Benzon‘s complex and […] Read more
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