Every once in a while a polymer artist like Vasso Tizma (ClaylandStudio) from Greece makes us think that we can all be polymer clay sculptors.
You’d think we’d learn that “making it look easy” is a trap. I’m trying to resist rolling out some red and green clay and giving it a go. Is there time to become an expert before the holidays? Hope springs eternal.
Plan B is her Etsy shop.
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Hawaii’s Christi Friesen celebrates Shark Week with a special collection of her ghoulies and says, “We’re gonna need a cuter boat!”
A week with grandsons has changed my perspective and educated me. I’ll be sorting out what I learned and sharing what I fished for and caught online in StudioMojo. Suhweet edition.
It’s not just the sculpting that draws us into this curvaceous mermaid from Virginia’s Christine Harris. The watery purples, aquas, and blues pull us underwater and into her world of sea creatures.
Christine is a convert to CosClay polymer. Bask in the glamor and drama of her sculpts.
Seattle’s Leah Lester (LittleLazies) started as a full-time cake decorator in a small Bakery in Virginia. She sculpted with edible sugar paste and fondant until she discovered polymer in 2010. Read her story in this Discover Geek interview.
Her mix of monsters, cuteness and high voltage colors is a huge hit and perfect for Cinco de Mayo.
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.
New Mexico’s Gael Keyes finds wood scraps, adds polymer sculpted hands and faces, and dresses the emerging angels with bits of Southwest patterns that turn salvaged elements into art.
She tucks a test tube into each construction and gives it new life as a wall bud vase.
Gael has encountered fantastical bugs, birds, mushrooms, angels, and more along her polymer path. Each uses scrap in increasingly inventive ways. This one, ” Suficiente”, reminds us that we have enough.
One good thing about this new year is that it will soon be time for a sprinkling of good luck from fairy art and fantasy sculptures like this Winter Baby from Belgium’s Enaidsworld.
No molds, all hand-sculpted, infused with charm and luck.
She’s had a hard time keeping up with demand and plans to have more on her blog and shop this year. Her fantasy folks are pure magic!
Tired of treacly sweet holiday movies, I flipped on that new dystopian, end-of-the-world comedy (not a comedy) and this is what my eye gravitated to today. Holidays can wreak havoc on our psyches!
Florida’s Casey Omar Cross (DarkHeartKreations) captures one end-of-the-year viewpoint powerfully with his warlord chick in polymer.
Parts of 2021 were scary. Let’s leave them behind, turn the page, clean the slate, change the channel.
Casey makes us take a good hard look.
Virginia’s Derek Brown (strangeclaycreations) toils away fixing motorcycles when he’d rather be sculpting in polymer. You gotta hand it to those artists caught in that disconnect.
You can see Derek’s heart in his characters like this Santa on Instagram and Etsy.
Watching him airbrush one of his pieces will calm you right down. Never seen that before. It’s obviously his happy place. Thanks!
I’m stuck on the sculpture and holiday ornaments that I could, should, might be creating. Full disclosure: I have a lovely poinsettia plant on the hearth. That’s it in the decorating department.
Today’s ornaments that fall into the “I could try that” category are from New York’s Rosanna Cappellno.
She transforms old ornaments into jesters, Humpty Dumpty, pigs….you name it. Dead lightbulbs become elves! They’re quirky, whimsical, and recycled. Perfect for the tree. Oh wait, no tree.
Just because I’m not making ornaments doesn’t mean that I’m not enjoying, remembering, savoring them. I have made a few new pretties just in case the grandchildren can get vaccinated in time for a visit.
In the meantime, I’m taking vicarious pleasure in Rosanna’s site. Sumptuous!
