The glee that California’s Diane Greenseid takes in her small sculptures comes through loud and clear. I know nothing about what her small characters (the kids, she says) mean or how she constructs them.
It really doesn’t matter, does it? She’s obviously having a good time and really, isn’t that the point? You can sense some good stories here.
Pennsylvania’s Mary-Lynne Moffitt hops us into Spring with a lineup of wayward rabbits and toads. They’re fashionably dressed in dots.
Mary-Lynne sees multi-media critters like these in the most unlikely places. Old paintbrushes become a troupe of arty monsters. Watch her play on Facebook and Instagram.
France’s Chifonie sprinkles tiny red hearts over all her animal friends.
Underneath their simple shapes and endearing expressions are layers of luscious colors, bits of cane, swirls of stripes, and shimmering crackled metallics.
It’s an endearing combination of fancy and plain, whimsical and serious. Always dotted with a bright red indication of where Chifonie’s heart lies.
Where does your heart show up in your work? We’ll be examining that in Saturday’s edition of StudioMojo. Sign up today!
Raccoons have such graphic, distinctive faces. Put crowns on their heads and blush on their cheeks and what have you got? Earrings from Australia’s Zula (Artsyshinycloud).
If unicorns or swans or butterflies are more to your liking, her Etsy site contains a whole menagerie of joyful animal designs carefully rendered in polymer
Saturday’s StudioMojo is positively bursting with the most interesting new ideas from my time in Kentucky. All that stored energy from our confinement had to leak out eventually. And yes, there are new road-tested tools that we couldn’t wait to order. Come on over for a look-see.
Portland’s Laurel Swetnam loves her deep reds and oranges. By this time of year, she’s left with lots of cane ends and leftover veneers.
Not a problem! The patterns and colors play nicely with each other as she pieces them into these charmingly angular fox ornaments. Simple shapes become stunning ornaments.
Their legs gallop as Russia’s Galka Vasina’s creatures romp across your shirt.
Nothing fancy here. Cutouts, textures, fun colors. Layers of polymer stacked up. It’s the movement that really rings our chimes.
How can something so simple be so satisfying? Why question it? It works!
Sweden’s Barbara Nalepa was nominated by EvaMarie Törnström to take part in an ad hoc challenge for 10 days.
Barbara’s creatures have a wild and funny demeanor with an unexpected sprinkling of shimmering glitter from what may be low-fire enamel powder on polymer.
Since the challenge specifies that the artists don’t have to explain a thing, it’s hard to determine all that’s going on. Perhaps Barbara will elaborate on her quirky characters later.
More characters roam through her Facebook.
Friends came back from a weekend class with Kentucky’s Leslie Blackford gushing about how much they’d learned about clay…and themselves.
There’s something touching, innocent, and vulnerable in Leslie’s unending series of loveable animal sculptures. How does she do that?
For the next few weeks, she will show how she imbues simple sculpted animals with irresistible qualities.
Class details are on Facebook. The tutorials are accessible, inexpensive and just the kind of play your inner child may be yearning for in rough times.
These clever tab and slot polymer ornaments by Connecticut’s Cat Szetu are intended for a December 7-15 tree decoration competition at the Ronald McDonald House Tree of Hope in New Haven.
The Southern Connecticut Polymer Clay Guild has moved into high gear to blanket their tree with polymer ornaments. You’ll find other ornaments for the guild’s tree on their FB page
Cat keeps a low profile and you can see more of her on Flickr.
We tracked these reclining miniature animals through a link from France’s PolymereandCo magazine’s Instagram site. We agree that Atelier Kitsune’s animals deserve a closer look. These resting animals inhabit a perfect world where they are safe and sound.
The blended colors of the polymer figures are then carefully drawn on with white paint. There’s something very soothing about these curled and content figures.
