Yesterday it was a punch. Today it’s a hug. It’s hard to wrap your arms around all the emotions we’re feeling. Clay can help.
Portland’s Gesine Krastner shows us her Hugs by Mail on her Etsy shop and Instagram.
Gesine has a charming way of making difficult emotions and tender feelings easier to deal with in her clay creatures and illustrations. See a whole bunch of them on her website.
New Delhi’s Jaishree Choudhary (JudaMani) creates mostly items based on Indian themes. These masks have more of an African flavor.
The features are added with a few rolls for lips and eyes and sharp triangular-shaped noses.
The colors add drama along with carved and textured details. Looking at the mask bases may tempt you to try to create your own tribe.
Jaishree has been working for several years to bring realism to her polymer figures and faces. Even her unpainted tiles have great power in their simple shapes adorned with abundant and accurate details.
Where do I our ideas spring from? That’s one of the subjects we’ll look at in this weekend’s StudioMojo. We found a fun and surprising story about how “what goes around, comes around.” Come on over to StudioMojo for a smile and a surprise.
Friends came back from a weekend class with Kentucky’s Leslie Blackford gushing about how much they’d learned about clay…and themselves.
There’s something touching, innocent, and vulnerable in Leslie’s unending series of loveable animal sculptures. How does she do that?
For the next few weeks, she will show how she imbues simple sculpted animals with irresistible qualities.
Class details are on Facebook. The tutorials are accessible, inexpensive and just the kind of play your inner child may be yearning for in rough times.
After so many years of posting, I don’t question why I choose items to post. I trust my gut and this one feels like a warm blanket on a comfy sofa.
Indiana’s Anita Long (nee.nee.ree) makes her ring bowl look like a really restorative nap. Soft and cozy. Not your usual one-layer ring bowl.
Want to step your bowls up a notch? Add a few more layers and it feels like a cuddle. Who couldn’t use a cuddle?
How do you picture this menacing virus? Polymer is a perfect medium for giving you an outlet for venting your anger, anxiety, and fears.
Here New York’s Nicole Johnson (mealymonsters) and Indiana’s Amy Hucks (supersculptor) show you their interpretations.
Nicole calls her containers of polymer specimens caught in resin Germ Jars.
Amy’s are more prickly and they’re wearing masks.
I’d love to see your versions of this monster.
Forgive the pun. It was just too easy to smile and wince and admire this ambitious and detailed cane from Israel’s Edith Fischer Katz.
On her Instagram, she has compiled several in-process shots that document how she built the components for this large complex cane.
Edith uses these components in sculptures that are often edgy and alarming. See how she used an earlier crow cane here. Who knows what plans she’s hatching for the fly?
Does this happen in your studio at night? Watching this stop motion sculpt of Captain America by Döuyin (@thdrawing) will make you believe it could.
Ok, very silly but I couldn’t stop looping it.
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Italy’s Serena Ghidoni (mondoinundito) showers your Monday with a handful of polymer nymphs, mermaids, and fairies.
Mondoinundito means “world in a finger”. Serena says she wants to convey the idea that behind small things there is a huge and beautiful world that deserves to be discovered.
Take a closer look at the fine details she sculpts into these graceful and fanciful shapes. Her Instagram leads you to her Facebook and sales sites.
It only took seven minutes for fans of New York’s Nicole Johnson’s Mealy Monsters to empty her shop of Love Bugs, Love Grubs, and Infestation Monsters when she updated her shop last weekend.
Her loveable, horrible characters are perfect for Valentine’s Day. They’re ugly and often they hold strange, irreverent signs and sayings.
Nichole has a loyal following who appreciates all the work and whimsy she sculpts into these polymer characters. They creep out every holiday to say something sassy. You have to move quickly to catch them. Here they are on Facebook.
Melbourne’s Michelle Sansonetti (Zedembee) can’t predict what polymer creatures will take shape in her fingers.
Here it’s a bemused cat with a bird on its head.
It made me smile and that’s the main criteria for a Monday post. The cat’s stripes are comfortably rumpled and the expression is satisfyingly silly (Felix and Philomena). It’s a good way to start the week.
