Now isn’t that the essence of fall?
France’s Valérie Bodino-Nazet situates a polymer shield shape of fall’s oranges, golds, and blues next to winter’s black and whites. She bisects the brooch with a flowing wire shape.
I couldn’t tell if Valerie had finished the construction when she took this photo but my eye shouted, “Stop! That’s it.”
Here’s the brooch on Instagram.
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.
Your reflexes may make you flinch but the colors will make you look twice at this brooch from Poland’s Anna Nel.
The snake is covered with slices of a mosaic-like cane in stunning blues, rusts, gold, and white. Its head is covered with a slice that’s matched in a Natasha bead style.
It’s menacing in the most beautifully alluring way.
Let’s close a sunny week with a sunny brooch from Canary Islands’ Pilar Rodríguez Domínguez (Amatista). I snagged this from her Instagram a little while ago and kept returning for another look.
That’s a sure sign that there’s something interesting going on. The canes (available on Etsy) have a stained-glass quality about them. There’s a sensual, sinewy feel too.
It takes a moment for all the blends and colors to register. It must be the fine dark line between elements that makes these bright colors read so well.
Figuring out what makes a piece of art grab us is part of what we’ll be looking at over at StudioMojo this weekend. You’d be surprised what you can learn by taking the time for a closer look. Join us.
Australia’s Leanne Fergus brings a bit of inspiration from Gustav Klimt to polymer. She updates Klimt with a hint of circuit board imagery.
This square golden brooch sold quickly after she posted it on Instagram. She hadn’t even added the resin coat before it was snatched up.
The geometric textures are accented with dabs of jewel tone colors. Take in all the sparkle and movement captured under a glass-like layer of resin.
New Hampshire’s Kathleen Dustin reinterprets her grandchildren’s artwork as polymer brooches in her newest series.
The artwork combines the kids’ loose and colorful style with Grandma’s distinctive wirework and polymer skills.
See the rest of her series on Instagram.
What could you turn into a polymer heirloom in your family?
Anna Nel layers crisp pieces of abstract patterns into a brooch. Her colors tease the eye with subtle gradations. Curves and angles cluster around a window in the center of the pin.
I’m not sure where she is in Europe but her heart resonates with the art of Wassily Kandinsky.
This is turning into a week of mysteries. Here is Anna on Facebook and Instagram.
Our master class with Lindly Haunani exhilarated us to exhaustion. She wraps color theory and head-slapping tricks and her years of experience into a two-day blitz of information and exercises.
This piece from Ohio’s Sue Wartell is a lovely one of many examples created by students in the last couple hours of class. But more importantly, we understood the how and why of what we were doing. It’s no wonder that many students in the class were back for a second time. Learning from a polymer master is a heady experience.
My poor brain needs a well-earned rest.
Bonnie Bishoff offers us a bouquet of buds with her latest brooch.
My heart did a little flip for the colors, the simplicity, the beauty of this piece that she’ll be offering at the ACC show in Baltimore this weekend. It seems to promise that spring is on the way. Don’t you want to brush your fingertips over the buds?
On StudioMojo we’ll be discovering other polymer artists in the ACC show. The emerging artist award went to a polymer artist who’s new to PCD. Come on over and see all the exciting stuff that doesn’t quite fit into the daily posts.
You didn’t think PCD would get through Valentines Day without featuring Ron Lehocky, did you? Nope!
The problem was picking one. Ron has photos of his avid collecters bedecked in his pins. They make perfect gifts for any occasion.
This heart is just emerging from a great collaged sheet of veneer.
For those of you who don’t know Ron, he’s a Kentucky physician/teacher/author who has been creating heart pins for sale with all proceeds going to Louisville’s Kids Center since 2005. He’s aiming to hit 50,000 hearts in his fundraising effort. He’s the undisputed king of hearts and this is his day.
