Polymeri Online 30.10.15 | Polymer witches tales, Lorem Ipsum jewellery, Non-dentist-friendly mutations and Coffins and shovels spooky stuff - Happy Halloween!

So here I am at home while my daughter is in the US planning to see the yearly Halloween parade in Manhattan! I'm so jealous!! :)

Join me to another post devoted (almost) entirely to the spooky and wonderful!

Tall tales, Caroline McFarlane-Watts, is a master in polymer clay "witch" craft ;) well, not real witchcraft... lol

She creates beautiful magical scenes using animals, witches and other legendary creatures.

These 'tall tales' are told using scale miniature sets, hand-sculpted characters, illustrations and visual effects. From the concept artwork, the storyboards, elaborate sets, character sculpts and original scripts - everything is created in-house. 

Her work as a miniaturist is featured and sold in 40+ countries and has been exhibited in China as well as the US.

http://www.tall-tales.com

https://www.facebook.com/TallTalesProductions

https://instagram.com/caro.mfw/

http://carolinemcfarlane-watts.blogspot.co.il

Geometric and colour are always a perfect match. The Singapore "Lorem Ipsum" store is all about basic shapes incorporated together to create a harmony of design.

In publishing and graphic design, lorem ipsum (derived from Latin dolorem ipsum, translated as "pain itself") is a filler text commonly used to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual presentation. There is a lot of calm colour "filling" in these pleasant designs.

http://theloremipsumstore.com

https://instagram.com/theloremipsumstore/

In a 180 degrees turn, this site is for the strong at heart -

Morgan Loebel (aka, Morgans Mutations) makes creatures, monsters and mutated things out of polymer clay. He is using switch plates or phone cases as his canvas to sculpt his monstrous, horrifying teethed creatures. 

Most of them are not dentists friendly although Morgan has a long career as dental laboratory technician! Yes!

He uses paints, epoxy as well as polymer clay in his art. His shop is currently closed but you can see more of his work in the "sold" section. Wooooaaaa!

https://www.etsy.com/shop/MorgansMutations

https://instagram.com/morgansmutations/

https://www.facebook.com/morgans.mutations/

To finalise our post with a scent of halloween here is Tim from "Coffins and shovels".

Coffins, shovels, zombies, spooky stuff, sculptures, Halloween props and other cool stuff are Tim's work. He mention that he has laser beams instead of eyes ;) Why not? 

Tim creates small and large pieces. I'm guessing he uses super sculpey on the smaller ones and other materials on his large sized sculptures but I may be wrong.

http://coffinsandshovels.blogspot.co.il

https://instagram.com/dubbax3/

Enjoy the weekend fun!

Polymeri Online 16.8.13 | Back from Barcelona, Horror polymer, Natural geometries jewelry, Mike Waxowski tutorial, Wire knitting with polymer clay and my Skyscraper jewelry in Cynthia Tinnaple's book

Hola everyone! 

Yes, I'm back from a family trip to Spain; me, dh and 2 kids; It was hot, humid and wonderful :)

Barcelona, Valencia and Madrid, such an exciting cities! So much to see!
Really recommended for your next trips but! not in August! Weather was non-tourist-friendly even though there are millions of people on the streets!
Glad to be home :)

I am here for only a short week and then off to the beautiful Prague for teaching ~20 eager minds, looking forward to learning more about polymer clay.
If you want to join at the last minute, I think there is one or two last spots available - more details here - http://www.polymerove-hmoty.cz/Default.aspx?detail=a0ca7301-f2f9-4254-81a7-e1f47153240c

New links?

Jacob Reed polymer clay sculptures

Jacob Reed from Maryland, USA, is the owner of Shadow Work Art.
He claims that his horror-themed creations are a bit of a reflection of his own shadow, which he tries to acknowledge as best he can. The jewelry are the lighter side of him attempting to make nice with the darker side...
In his work he uses super sculpey, acrylics, varnish and his work is custom made.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/ShadowWorkArt

Mindful Matters Jewelry

Diane is a chemist but Mindful Matters Jewelry is a whimsical jewelry boutique featuring her one-of-a-kind pendants, earrings, bracelets, hair accessories and bookmarks made of polymer & precious metal clay (PMC), sterling & fine silver and mixed metals. |
Her work aspires to translate intriguing natural geometries, patterns and textures into fun & wearable art jewelry.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/mindfulmatters

El Arte De Pau's Mike Waxowski
YouTube tutorial

El Arte De Pau's Mike Waxowski YouTube tutorial from Monsters movie is so cute! There are several fun tutorials in her YouTube channel you may want to check out -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmYH6dlaBAY
https://www.etsy.com/shop/ElArtedePAU
https://www.facebook.com/ElArteDePau

Liudmyla Heggland polymer clay jewelry

Liudmyla Heggland 
polymer clay mask jewelry

Take a look at the polymer clay jewelry by Liudmyla Heggland, a mix of wonderful beading, wire knitting and polymer clay beads.
Liudmyla or as she is calls herself - Mila, is currently living in Norway.
http://www.mylovelybeads.com/php/newsletter/201006/mila9.html
More of her jewelry on Flickr -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mila-heggland/
And check out her quick tutorial for faux sea-urchin (browse the photos for the steps)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mila-heggland/4594450299/

Back from the post office; between the supplies, findings and other goodies there was my Amazon envelope - The wonderful book by Cynthia Tinapple featuring my skyscraper jewelry!
The book is a wonderful collection of polymer clay creations, inspiration and artists.
This one, placed next to my bed will assure genuine polymer clay dreams!

Polymer Clay Global Perspectives Book
Featuring my Skyscraper jewelry

Have a wonderful weekend!

Polymeri Online 24.3.11

Wall cakes's store is full of wonderful hand crafted decorative switch plates.

Her story reminds me a little bit of my own, when she lost her job she re-discovered her love of art. She says that "losing something is sometimes the best thing that can happen to anyone". As a teenager, she took classes, made things on a loom, watched and helped, her mother and aunt ran a small business making ceramics. Her inspiration comes from the mediums she works with. Polymer clay can be whatever you want it to be - so true.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/WallCakes

Olena Mysnyk is a 26 year old designer, studied architecture in Kiev, but once found herself in creating jewelry - she tried to work with polymer clay and could not stop. She creates delicate, bright and tender flowers made into beautiful jewelry.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/HoneyCase2

Katie Oskin has been crafting for the majority of her adult life, but about 2 years ago she began to experiment with polymer clay. Since then she has fallen in love with its affordability, its multi-purpose uses, and the relaxation it provides (squish, squash, bake, crack, paint, oil, cure, etc.) Their designs are mostly whimsical, fun, and humorous in nature. From the cute & cuddly, to the monsters & robots!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/toystorynutty

Amy was always into the arts in one way or another since she was a toddler. Her latest obsession is working with polymer clay. She has been trying different techniques & experimenting, but still pretty new at it. She loves sea creatures, mainly cephalopods. Octopus & squid are her favorites as you can tell by looking through her shop.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/societysedso

Polymeri Online 9.8.09

Cat's home lady is designing cute smiling cats which made me smile too, her humoristic sculpture's of cats (and some dogs) makes the animal kingdom sweeter, she is from Izmir, Turkey.
http://www.catshomestore.wordpress.com/
http://www.catshomestore.blogspot.com/
http://www.catshome.etsy.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/catshome/

This tutorial demonstrates how to use a ball marble to bake a cabochon using black acrylic color too - great result.
http://paroledepate.canalblog.com/archives/2009/03/30/13112197.html

SPecimen7 monsters are hand sculpted, The current collection of specimens is curated by Shing Yin Khor, a Los Angeles area artist and designer. each specimen has it's own story :)http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6989534

Need some jewelry displays? - Timothy Adam Designs's Modern unique metal jewelry, art, furniture clocks jewelry displays and much more. Every item is handmade and designed by Timothy Adam.
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5074716

Polymeri Online 9.9.07

polymer_woman's is a stay at home mother, working with PC for 15 years now and says she will never get tired of it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/polymer_clay_crazy/

Carolyn Bond from Australia, is sculpturing with her 14 years old son some cute monsters creatures, barrettes, jewelry and beads.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolynbond/

Muselover
A cane maker, her eggs are lovely and she is also a great nature photographer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/90315669@N00/

Creafantaisie in her blog makes nice face cane and if you browse a little bit you will find cute married - bride-groom figurines, so humoristic, sweet.
http://creafantaisie88.canalblog.com/archives/p55-5.html

Agnes Blog has unique art, lot's of beads, mokume gane and water color - loved it.
http://agnestourtet.com/agnes/

Raphal le corre blog, another french artist, uses retro canes in her(her/his?) lovely jewelry and sculptures.
http://songedeflora.canalblog.com/

Molly McMahan - Molyner
Molly McMahan first touched polymer clay in the year 1988. She still has some of the first peices that she made from sculpy III. Back in those days, she didn't know anyone else who worked in polymer clay except for the friends that she introduced to the medium. She had taught herself caning out of Fimo after seeing some incredible necklaces made out of animal face canes. read more on her bio here
http://www.molymerclay.com/artist.htm
http://www.molymerclay.com/clay.htm

Jenny Armitagemakes whimsical animals hand sculpted, Kaleidoscopes with Kaleidoscopic Canework and more...
http://www.dancingfeatherstudio.com/

Margi Laurin About 15 years ago she discovered a fascinating material that appeared to have no boundaries. The more she workes with it, she realizes that the only limits were the ones imposed by the artist himself.Her art include eggs, jewelry, vessels, book covers and more.
http://www.margilaurin.com/

Polymeri Online 8.3.07

Few Links on Creatures and Creations!

Oolong - Fergus Ray Murray Blog which feature sculpted animal photos and a tutorial for making a cat!

http://www.oolong.co.uk/zoo/

http://oolong.co.uk/colmod.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/0olong/

Dylan Edwards Site - Dylan says he has been making art for longer than he can remember, and has been fascinated with monsters!

http://www.feepingcreatures.com/

his Magnets -

http://www.feepingcreatures.com/accessories/magnets.html

and don't miss anything in his site.

Flickr Gallery by alienpumpkin / Tim Edwards with colorful creatures -http://www.flickr.com/photos/82516008@N00/sets/72157594402099554/

Last one is SpiceGirl site - comics using polymer clay sculpturing -http://www.motodraconis.co.uk/space/ComPage60.html