Germany’s Eva Thissen has moved to tone-on-tone flowers and birds for her latest series of pendants and earrings.
Eva finds that in stark white, the flowers and bird relief looks flat so she settled on this cream color. You have to move in close to see the exquisite detail on her small monochrome jewelry.
Eva calls herself an illustrator and considers these polymer illustrations. More illustrated goods on Etsy.
Australia’s Dani Rapinett offers this Floating Dots class in her Whimsical Bead store.
Ok, so there’s not much chance that most of us will make it to class but that doesn’t keep us from admiring the happy multicolor mix and wondering how she made it.
Was Dani thinking of the maps on her car’s dashboard when she created these? They make us think we’re going on an adventure!
If you’re looking for polymer adventures, join us over at StudioMojo on Saturday morning. We cover what’s happening in polymer art and connect the dots.
Ireland’s Fiona Herbst has added this simple sophisticated pendant design to her holiday lineup. Colors like these are easy to wear with almost anything.
She knew she was onto something when the pendant was snatched up before it made it online.
Browse through Fiona’s Instagram to see what other crowd-pleasers she’s creating for the season.
Over at StudioMojo, we’ll be looking at more holiday offerings and I’ll share what my trainwreck of a week taught me.
Loretta Lam says its all about organizing your design information into a visual hierarchy and she’ll be teaching that at Creative Journeys Studios in Georgia November 1-3.
The fabric-like textures, juxtaposed lines, and somber colors dangling from a chunky chain caught my eye. Yours too?
Learning how to do this intentionally is the trick that Loretta will be teaching.
The smooth rounded rock shapes on this necklace from Australia’s Michelle Sansonetti (Zedemee) have a Zen-like quality that appeals. Her swirls seem to calm in contrast with the weather maps that threaten.
Michelle credits Spain’s Fabi Ajates for inspiring her in a 2019 class. Isn’t it marvelous how polymer ideas bounce around the world? No boundaries, no weather disturbances, no politics. Hang on to that thought today.
Germany’s Jana Lehmann is on a roll. Her newest pieces include extruded strings, dots, stripes, textures, gradations, cutouts, dangles. Oh, and did you notice the closure that’s also a design element?
Jana packs this piece with action for your Monday wake-up call. Feast your eyes on other juicy examples on her Instagram.
Baltimore’s Tamara Shea (BlockPartyPress) celebrates city pride with this polymer B’more pendant.
Tamara has created and sold her distinctive woodblock-look polymer graphics on Etsy since 2006.
Polymer is sometimes a great way to step up quickly and speak your mind.
I went out looking for new friends. Not that you’re all not just lovely but who couldn’t use a few more friends?
What I found was a mystery. Two sisters, one from Texas and one from Nebraska, teamed up 12 years ago to exercise some creative muscle under the Crone Art label. They make and market buttons and pendants and earrings and whatever suits their fancy in polymer.
The sisters keep their identities on the down-low but someone out there probably knows this duo.
What words would you use to describe their Instagram? Oddball? Seriously mischevious? Minimalists? Modern?
In this pendant, they stack their round buttons in oval cups to form a pendant on a thick cord. Wearable and whimsical.
Boston’s Betsy Baker makes her Manhattan debut June 8 & 9 at the Craft New York show.
Merely visiting her site makes you feel much more chic and sophisticated. Betsy limits her palette to a monochromatic mix set against grunge textures. Often there’s a hidden bit of silver and gold sparkle that appears like buried treasure.
Betsy branched out from her Boston market to the ACC shows and now she’s taking on New York. Betsy thinks big! If you want to see what that looks like, read her site and Instagram.
What started out as a small bowl by Baltimore’s Linda Loew became a layered, moody pendant.
A photo transfer of a man stares off into the distance from the second layer topped by a multicolored oval frame on top.
Turns out that this bowl wanted to be a pendant.
Just because you’ve made a bowl doesn’t mean it can’t morph into something else. See more on Instagram.
