Meredith Dittmar adds art to her fence with polymer. She’s mostly creating with paper these days – wonderful, intricate sculptures.
Every so often she integrates a sculpture or uses polymer for structure on one of her airy assemblages. See if you can find them on her Instagram or her site.
On the fence? No excuses. Go vote!
Then decorate your fence.
Doreen Gay Kassel gives us an early “trick or treat” with this Pumpkin Head Man polymer sculpture.
What a relief, nothing political in her October surprise. Maybe that’s what makes it a surprise.
Won’t we all be glad to get back to our studios and on the way to recovery from election stress?
Thanks for the surprise, Doreen. See more on Instagram and Facebook.
Perhaps you can identify with Edith Fischer-Katz’ (Zoota) sculpture titled Hide this Monday morning.
The small figure is encased in a polymer imitation knitted suit with a zipper up her back. It’s part of a series of mostly nude figures covered with flowers, moss, stitches or knitted embellishments.
Edith’s figures have previously been very representational and this series on Flickr seems to move in a different, more pensive direction that will be interesting to watch. You’ll also find her on Facebook and her website.
No need to hide. Let’s get this week started!
Who better than illustrator/artist Wendy Wallin Malinow to remind us of the approaching spooky season with her mixed media Goblins?
She resurrects a cigar box and fills it with her distinctive painting and polymer. Go in close for a look at the details.
Wendy entered this piece in the seriously spooky #mabsdrawlloweenclub on Instagram. See more of Wendy’s works on Instagram, Etsy and Tumblr.
Are there monsters and ghosts lurking in your studio?
The commission list for 2017 is full but you might make the 2018 wait list for your miniature polymer pooch from HelenViolet.
In the meanwhile look at the in-progress videos of her sculpting, texturing and then painting Who’s Your Doggy pets in polymer and see past works on Instagram.
“If we could be a little more ‘dog’, we would love more, we would play more, and rather than ‘try’ to be – We would just be,” Helen says on a interview on Outlaw Kritters.
Could you be a little more ‘sculptor’?
Haven’t you been inspired by those big sculptural shells on the beach and wondered what they could illustrate?
Christine Harris says of her work, “Horseshoe crabs have copper based blue blood that is used by the medical industry for its antibacterial qualities and is still being studied. Basically they milk the blood from the horseshoe crab and try to release it but many of them do not survive.”
She usually does “lots of nerdy research” on the creatures while she works and often explains their meaning on her blog when they’re finished. Be mesmerized by the work-in-progress shots from this Virginia art therapist and sculptor.
Next week’s posts may be sporadic as I celebrate FIMO50 in Germany. Cut the cake and sing with us virtually as we look at what it means to turn 50.
Stephanie Kilgast didn’t intially reveal where she was headed with her collection of polymer crystals. She offered a great little YouTube video of how she made these other-worldly minerals. She usually creates incredibly realistic miniature foods. Crystals pointed to change.
Her clusters of cave growths reappeared mounted to a dimensional canvas trailing a blue wash of color. Stephanie explains her sculptural painting and talks about her burst of creativity on her site. She hints at more changes to come.
See what other big steps Stephanie is taking on Patreon and Instagram. They’re brave and inspirational steps!
Donna Greenberg shows us Blue Bird Biscuit choker, her version of twisted and sculpted polymer on a cord.
Donna includes work-in-progress photos that give you insight into her thinking for this series of organic, flowing shapes. More complex versions link with one another to form chains.
Donna and Christine Dumont and Ronna Sarvas Weltman offer a series of 5-week online creative design courses to enhance each student’s design skills and bring vitality and impact to the work while exploring what it takes to develop their own distinctive series.
The classes start in September. Read all about the courses here.
It’s not often that inmates can send art home to their families. When Leslie Blackford offered to mail their sculptures to families, students in the Ohio prison classes put extra effort and humor into their Bobblehead creations. Leslie and Tammy Dye are two of their favorite visiting polymer artists.
Just look at this prison cat named Fendor (short for Offender, I’m sure). There are more examples on Leslie’s Instagram. Tammy’s cone beads were also a big hit.
One very devoted friend from rural Ohio prints each PCD post which she mails in a weekly package to incarcerated artists who study and share them. They’ll be seeing this in next week’s delivery so shout a big virtual hello!
Few tools, no internet, no air conditioning, lots of rules! A pretty stripped down studio setup but a terrific learning experience for both teachers and students. There’s nothing better than when a student says, “For an afternoon, I felt free.” Where could you teach and brighten someone’s day?
Lisa Renner’s sculpted busts have wistful, pensive looks with lovely touches of fashion and mystery. Lisa avoids the telltale ways of working that scream “plastic”. Her strong expressions and ceramic-like fabrics pull you right past the material and into the art.
It’s an enviable trick that Lisa teaches in her 2-day About Face class (the next one’s in September in Albuquerque). See if you can figure how how she performs this sleight of hand by flipping through the work on her website. Check out her class schedule and friend her on Facebook.
