North Carolina’s Kathryn Reid (PendulumStudios) tiptoes up to Valentine’s Day with these carefree heart pendants.
She gleefully sprinkles mini-beads on the surfaces of her modern collaged cutout hearts. The designs are random and carefree. Perfect love tokens.
The last time Kathryn was on PCD was 2009! Welcome back! Here she is on Facebook and Flickr.
Russia’s Tanya Mayorova suggests her labor-intensive, mosaic-style Planet pendant design as a good project for those with time on their hands.
She lines up small cane slices in sections on the outside of four-layer domed pendants. Aligning the slices looks a little compulsive, rather soothing and totally stunning.
See her designs on her Instagram. She sells a tutorial but I couldn’t locate it.
Germany’s Bettina Welker arranges textured elements on a black spiral doodle of clay to form a thoroughly modern pendant/brooch.
Bettina is teaching this workshop in her hometown. Students bring favorite elements they’ve made or gathered. They evaluate and sort their finds and learn to arrange them into something new and better.
You can see more in this series on her Etsy site.
Upcycling and making old into new is another of the trends we’ll look at in this Saturday’s StudioMojo. It’s a heads-up for where our work may be headed in 2020 and beyond. We’d love to have you join us.
North Carolina’s Barbara McGuire will be teaching her own special brand of Mokume Gane this weekend at Tryon’s Arts and Crafts school. These class samples have me salivating.
Barbara’s Shimmering Mokume brings influences from Gustav Klimt with a touch of Paul Klee (to my eye at least).
Wouldn’t you love to know how she arrives at such painterly pieces?
Study her on Facebook. She offers some wonderfully deep rubber stamps in her Etsy shop.
Croatia’s Nikolina Otrzan (Orsons World) tempts us with a new downloadable tutorial coming out at the end of the month. On her slim collaged tube pendants, dots join stripes along with distressed solids.
Her tutorials are full of surprising methods, copious photos, and sophisticated designs. This could be an end of the year gift to yourself that will properly launch your skills into 2020.
Here she is on Facebook and Etsy.
Baltimore’s Amy Sun Ah (SunAhBlair) Is in the throes of the holiday bazaar season. While the repeated shapes in these earrings and pendant are straightforward, it’s the mix of patterns that makes them harmonize..
Amy deftly brings Victorian and Japanese textile designs to polymer via silkscreen and paints. Some, like the pendant here, are backed with slightly larger textured clay shapes and joined by a central crystal.
Visit her on Instagram and her site to experience the variety in her collections.
Rome’s Diana Crialesi (Archidee) has uploaded photos of her latest summer polymer jewelry.
She was so engrossed with making work, shooting tutorials and teaching that she fell behind in stocking her online store. Now she’s caught up and has added photos of the backlog to her shop and Instagram.
One look at her YouTube channel and you’ll understand what distracted her.
In the video, Diana assembles this bright piece (skip ahead to 11:00) with its t-bar closure and square opening on a turquoise silk cord. Simple and summery.
These pendants-in-process from Israel’s Iris Mishly are created with cutouts made from veneers layered with stenciled designs that are chalked then inked and finally coated with resin. The resin hasn’t yet been added in this photo.
Especially when the weather is warm and the clay is sticky, these light-touch techniques give you summertime options. See Iris’ stencils on Etsy.
How do you keep yourself working in good weather and bad? In tomorrow’s StudioMojo we’ll be talking to Anita Long (Nee.Nee.Ree) about what her persistence through a 100-day challenge taught her. Join us!
Illinois’ Dayna Corbitt (Whimsycalling) raises money for animal rescue with her very popular painted polymer animal sculptures.
Her understanding of animals shines through in her meticulously painted and lovingly crafted pieces.
Dayna stocks her shop with a new batch of items every two weeks. Updates usually sell out in minutes.
Here she asks her Instagram followers which tiger or panther they prefer from this week’s (5/31/19) offerings. No commissions, no special orders. Dayna shows us what happens when you narrow your focus to what makes your heart sing.
These crisply cut pendants start our week out on the right foot. They’re from California’s Syndee Holt on Instagram.
She decorates ovals, cuts them in half, and shifts them slightly up and down on a black bar to make pendants with an architectural air.
This makes us feel under control which is a good way to begin a Monday.
