I smile as I look at these polymer Party Peeps from Texas’ Lisa Renner. The colors, balloons, and hats scream PARTY as they smile and close their eyes. Maybe they’re making a wish.
If you’re wishing to snag some on Lisa’s Etsy site, too late. That party is over. Maybe she’s making more.
Lisa’s fanciful creatures often have a melancholy air about them. Maybe 2021 is pushing her in a new direction. Keep an eye out for Lisa’s online classes.
North Carolina’s Elizabeth Hamilton has restrung this necklace three times already in her attempt to find just the right look for her newest collection. “Brass beads, black cord, chunky brass chain?” she asks.
“I may still tear it apart and try again,” Elizabeth admits.
Here she combines vintage round painted cork beads with tube beads that she made after a surface treatment class with Claire Maunsell. She calls it her Nothing New collection even though her treatment gives the piece a very new and trendy look.
Curved tube beads are easy to create in polymer and this 3-strand approach is a new one to my eye.
These patterned feathers on Instagram from Australia’s Debbie Crothers will take you right over the mid-week hump.
Debbie loves her veneers and surface treatments so I’m betting that she’s made herself a stash of veneers for source materials.
Assembling them in perfect balance like this is no quick project but they’re worth the effort. The occasional splice on the edge and bend in the shape gives each one distinct look.
On Facebook, Debbie says she’s refining her methods and these are prototypes for her sessions at Clay Out West from September 30 to October 3 in Albuquerque. Registration opens February 1.
Debbie offers a few clever hints about her methods in her blog post today.
Vermont’s Christine Damm was inspired to play with her scrap veneers. No jewelry inspiration arose from the heap.
“A few screw-ups later, I decided to put them all on a backing and voila! now I have a new veneer that will become holiday cards called Merry Christmas, Baby! on Redbubble. All veneer scraps used were surface painted previously, FYI,” says Christine.
Send greetings to friends and customers that show off your art. Lots of online printers will make the photo of your work into cards and all sorts of items.
Melbourne’s Leanne Fergus loves mixed media on polymer clay. Pearly, shiny, glowing, golden…anything that shimmers is right up her alley. Texture adds another level of interest and intrigue.
Leanne is up to day 50 on her 100-day project and it’s paying off. Some veneers she captures under resin.
Flip through her Instagram to see how she’s progressed. “When I’m in my workroom creating I feel like everything including time, stands still. It is my therapy, meditation and happy place. It is a time for being fully in the moment and recharging my spirit,” says Leanne.
Her new website is stunning.
PCD will be on travel schedule this week since I’m catching up on the latest twists in polymer at the Virginia conference. I can’t sit still long enough to write so posts will appear from time to time.
Surface decoration is still all the rage and just when you thought you’d seen it all, Karen Woods demos some alcohol tricks (click at left) on unbaked clay or Anita Kennerly and Joey Barnes show off new pigment powders they found.
These fabric-like earrings were assembled by France’s Maryvonne Kottelat.
The patterns were leftovers from a class taught by Hélène Jeanclaude and sponsored by Cernit. Here are Maryvonne’s blog, and Facebook,
Be warned that following the links will send you down a rabbit hole into a world of glowing translucent patterns (Cernit’s specialty) tucked among surfaces screened, painted and punched with French flair.
