Polymeri Online 11.8.12 | Polymer and mosaics, Silver and polymer, Incense stick holder and Child head tutorial

This week I decided to dig into my list and feature some of the older fav I've bookmarked myself to post here, this list contains all my future posts and is being collected slowly with every polymer piece I see online -

Polymer Clay and Mosaic

Nataly is a mosaic artist born in Russia but currently lives in Israel.
All crafts and mosaics helps her unwind from her work as a neuroscientist in the hospital research laboratory. She started to create as a way to lose weight, because she wasn't able eat in evening as part of her diet. Mosaic helped her.
As a neuroscientist she knows that creating has so many good health effects and this is also part of the reasons to keep doing it.
Nataly's work is usually created using small stones, mosaic/glass tiles but occasionally she uses polymer clay as a free form decoration along with all other tiles.
In this piece - a tree in bloom, she used mosaic tiles, small stones, glass beads and polymer clay. It was made as a 72 birthday present for her mother.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45526512@N07/4376852162/
Check out her fish clock using organic glass base, decorated with mosaic and air-dry clay.

Polymer Clay and Silver Brooch

Krista Breckman works with silver, copper, metals and.. polymer clay.
Her work with polymer includes techniques like mokume gane and  metal leaf and the addition of silver bordering makes it so elegant.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kristakile/3044266127/

Polymer Clay Incense Stick Holder - Prince Frog

Italian Leila Bidler made a super cuter incense stick holder for a swap back in 2009, the swap theme was fairy tales and she decided to create a frog prince with a golden ball.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gom6699/4183808471/
A incense burner is super easy to make, all you have to do is find your main piece and pierce a hole for the stick (make sure it is far enough from the clay to avoid polymer burning).

Glow in the dark Incense Holder

Here is another example by RedPebbleArt (Valerie Marousek) - A lotus burner made with glow in the dark fimo which is great for the total atmosphere.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/80077300/glowing-water-and-lotus-incense-burner

Polymer Clay Tutorial -
Sculpting a Child Head

Sculpturing was never my strong point, therefore I admire every person who has a talent for this part of art, Lewis Goldstein posted a tutorial for sculpturing a polymer clay child head. After taking a look at the photos, I think I can do it too. Looks so easy when you see all the steps - right?
More of his(her?) work and gallery - here
http://www.lewisgoldsteinartanddesign.com/DollTutorial.htm

Have a great weekend! 

Polymeri Online Valentine 2012 | Hearts ALL Hearts

Valentine is a day away, just in time for 4 additional polymer hearts!

Susan Crocenzi (Sucra) created this elaborated heart wall hanging with ceramic, glass, smalti & millefiore. Susan is a Mixed-media artist teaching techniques for Mosaicists - Tempered Glass and Polymer Clay.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sucra88/6761170411/in/photostream

http://scmosaics.com/home.html

Polymer Penguin is Julee. She discovered polymer clay 6 years ago, At first she worked on the projects in the garage, but quickly outgrew it. Now, she is converted her old quilting room over to polymer clay.

Check out her wonderful heart earring set - antiqued with liquid polymer clay colored with black ink.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/polymerpenguin/6859737885/

http://thepolymerpenguin.blogspot.com/

Adriana Allen has a touching personal story in her etsy profile. Every item she creates is a victory over her unforgiving disease: arthritis. She has it for 30 years but never gave up. Every piece she creates proves her that the disease cannot stop her from doing what she loves.

As I was checking out her cuff in Etsy, it was sold! I hope all hearts will!
This link is to an additional cuff of hers - green colored.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/91712423/10-discount-the-key-to-my-heart-polymer

http://www.adrianaallen.com

Check out this heart charm, looks like metal - right?
RubyShoesSam (Sandra DeYoung) did a great job with this one, sculpted into a heart, textured and highlighted to give it an aged silver metal look.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/87136690/silver-and-turquoise-heart-polymer-clay

Sandra was mentioned before in PolymeriOnline on 2008 so it's time to take a new look at her art.

Have a great LOVEly holiday! I'm off to eat a chocolate heart :)

Polymeri Online 28.7.11 | Mosaic with 6 kids, Carving beads, Carnivorous beads and Egypt god decoration

Sandy loved polymer clay ever since her daughter introduced it to her quite a while ago, she is creating one of a kind pieces, faces, masks and wall decorations (photo: Solar God of Ancient Egypt), in addition to cute small figurines.

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

Kael Mijoy, a mother to 6 kids ages 2-14 and a cat, is running a home computer repair business with her husband, homeschooling the older kids, play with the younger kids, and pretty much ignore the cat, BUT she has some time to clay!She has generously shared her cool mosaic technique with us, I think she has more than 24 hours a day! :)

http://kaelmijoy.blogspot.com/2010/10/cured-on-raw-mosaic-tutorial.html

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

Elena Aleshina is a lawyer from Moscow, Russia, her wonderful looking polymer clay beads look like carved using a lathe but I'm not certain that is her technique. very interesting.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tavostia/page4/

Denise Scheiben is from Switzerland, working with polymer clay since 2007, when I first saw her red necklace some how I was thinking about Carnivorous plants! The red halves of the beads seemed like they are planning to take a bite! :) I loved the colors and combination of beads & wire!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nislia/4423827047/in/photostream

Check out her mesh jewelry too, as you know I love mesh with polymer clay :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nislia/4423827045/in/photostream

Polymeri Online 25.3.10 and a Survey

When i saw Beadpassion cupcakes i couldn't believe they were clay, her cupcakes looks 100% real! she lives in the Philippines, started working with pc in 2008 and is a full time mom as long as her toddler is awake :) When he's asleep, thats when she enjoyes her quality time in creating.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/beadpassion
http://www.flickr.com/photos/accetera/

Beautiful movie on a wire making it's own sculpturing :) so cute! thank you pnina for sending the link!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ejiw5e-fOs&feature=related

Tristizzle makes cute figures such as clay army of bunnies and other animals
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tristizzle/4406581277/
http://www.etsy.com/shop/Tristizzle

Rubber stamp mosaic - stunning use of materials to create a mosaic-type portrait. Artist, Reena Saini Kallat, uses rubber stamps to create these works of art.
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2010/03/rubber_stamp_portraits.html

Make your own cookie cutters - a useful guide to make your own cutters!
http://rootsandwingsco.blogspot.com/2010/03/cookie-cutter-101.html

Last, i am doing a small survey on your tutorial requests and wishlist :)

what are the 2 things in polymer clay you wanted to know how to make and didn't know who to ask? a technique? final product? basic how-to? anything you can think of!

Please fill out this 2 questions survey and who knows, i may do a tutorial from your request!http://www.polypediaonline.com/133688/tutorialssurvey

thank you for your time!

Polymeri Online 24/12/09

Desert Dream Studios - Artwork by Mary Jane Chadbourne makes beautiful mosaic work, she uses hand stamped and painted polymer clay tiles & uses these tiles in all sorts of work, including ArtBoxes, wall art and paperweights.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/desertdreamstudios
http://www.desertdreamstudios.com/

fperezajates / Fabi from spain is multi talend lady - polymer clay, beading, felt and more, some of her jewelry are placed on filigree parts and feature 3D flowers.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajates/
look at her cute tutorial for transforming a brush into a note keeper!http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajates/sets/72157622802641750/

Matthew Nix has 2 new online glass tile pendant tutorial, i enjoyed it very much. http://www.createapendant.com/glasstilependanttutorial.htm

Even though it's not polymer clay this video is amazing! watch this artist making layered stunning candles and makes magic in cutting them in beautiful shapes! it's "almost" millefiori!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do9A9usP9Sk&feature=related

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Polymeri Online 5.11.09

Look at Israeli Doris Reuveni mosaic bowls! looks like pieces of ceramics with a black filling! color mixing is perfect, beautiful.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14059772@N03/1432415138/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14059772@N03/

raspberrypink is usually a figurines artist, but i found this lovely barrette in her flickr made with retro/bullzeye canes - lovely!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raspberrypink/3771277959/

Carina made a very interesting polymer clay necklace, at first i thought these were suede strings, but then i saw it's all extruded polymer clay, so original.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fimorina/3987842398/

Crea tu mundo / Maria from Madrid makes such cute sculpturings that tells a story, she is doing it with so much talent and humor :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/creatumundo/

Polymeri Online 2.4.09

studioatcrowhavenfar m / Michelle Schafer - a self-taught Mixed-Media Artist, she loves working with all types of medium. Especially, Air Dry Clay, Papier Mache, and Polymer Clay. she also loves painting, assemblages, sculpting, and listening to her tunes in my studio :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/crowhavenfarm/

Kay’s Miniatures Weblog for arts, crafts and Dolls House Miniatures made a cool step by step faux pearl tutorial
http://kaysminiatures.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/step-by-step-faux-pearls/

Karen Park shows us her mosaicon which she made on Laurie Mika workshop last year, just found it now :)
http://artandtea.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/my-finished-mosaicon/

Fun and inspiration using sushi millefiori ! bears, hearts, butterflies - so beautiful!http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2008/05/30/incredible-sushi-art/

Polymeri Online 13.3.09

Brazilian Ceramica Plastica (name?) says she creates and develops what it is possible to imagine using the incredible raw material: polymer clay. Besides the clay she creates pieces in felt and cloth. Her elephants are so colorful and beautiful!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceramicaplasticaecia/sets/72157614564305480/

Patricia Rose is first and foremost a sculptor. Her love for dolls came only after a quest to combine all of her interests and skills into one profession. She considers herself very fortunate to have discovered this world of dolls which has enabled her to follow her passion for art and also express who she is, she's got some cool Free tutorials in her site to all who want to learn to sculpt pretty dolls!
http://www.patriciarosestudio.com/html/tutorial.html

Stacey Hough Born into a family of creative people, Stacey has always had a love for all things handmade. From a young age she was inspired by her mother and grandmother's love of craft and making things. In her teenage years Stacey discovered her love of beads, and her fascination with jewelry has been never ending since. Working as an apprentice at a local jewelry store, throughout high school, Stacey gathered skills and started making designs of her own. Currently she is pursuing a dual degree in Fine Metals and Art Education at Kutztown University.
http://www.staceyhoughdesigns.com/artworks

How to make a miniature "ghost witch" from polymer clay - a youtube movie from MiniMaker Anderson blog -
http://creatingdollhouseminiatures.blogspot.com/2008/10/polymer-clay-ghost-witch.html
check out this tutorial too!http://creatingdollhouseminiatures.blogspot.com/2008/07/miniature-polymer-clay-teapot-and-tray.html

Julie is a mother of 2 boys. she is an artist that likes to make jewelry, mosaics and paint in watercolor.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juliespace/sets/72157601484269682/
http://juliespacedesign.blogspot.com/
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5217502

Polymeri Online 8.1.09

Chameleon Designer - Nelson Paim from Brasil has the most amazing Mandalas i saw, decorative dolls (about 43 cm of height), vases - it's a celebration of color!
http://www.chameleondesigner.com/mandalas_pag2.htm

iMiNiYou figurine cake toppers from Vancouver, Canada are so cool! The head, body and background are all made of polymer clay!
http://www.iminiyou.com/http://www.flickr.com/photos/miniyou/
Thank you Mira Krispil for these 2 links :)

Irma G. mosaic mirrors are beautiful, she studied art in Mexico at Instituto de Bellas Artes, had some exhibitions there. In her free time she likes to paint and make different things and experiment with different materials.
www.iworkartwork.etsy.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/irmag/sets/72157600588165910/

riky_le's - Vera Kuturov I loved her wonderful flower petals pendant
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26533759@N06/

This page is loaded with advices and tips on how to make the most of photographing your items, although not all of us have the best equipment it's a good resource.
http://www.tabletopstudio.com/HowTo_page.html

a Big project

Are you sitting down?

I think you'd want to sit down before you'll see this huge project by Naama Zamir, my fellow artist from Israel, she was asked by a friend to help make a unique mosaic table, made from tiny tiles of polymer clay, colored, canes... it was a non stop work for about a week, 50 packs of PC and the result is stunning!

Making such a project from colored clay, marbled, scraps, canes is an amazing use for all those tiles.

i wouldn't mind sitting near this table myself, not to mention getting one as a gift ;) lol

http://naamazamir.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-biggest-project-or-what-was-i.html

Polymeri Online 12.6.08

Beautiful Clay Illustration by Irma Gruenholz Irma is an llustrator, her creations are used in books, magazines, and more, she also prepare 3D models in polymer clay for customer presentations (see photo on right)
http://www.deplastilina.com/

Another clay annimator is John Lemmon
John makes traditional animation producing clay animation, 2D animation and stop motion animation for TV commercials and videos. He excels in character design and character animation. His clients include Disney, Pacific Bell, Cartoon Network.
http://www.jlf.com/clay_anm.html

MARION´S CREATIES
Marion from the Netherlands makes cuties - take a look
http://fimoclub-marion.tk/

SOS Designs - Sharon Sahl
polymer clay ornaments and sitting figures, Santas, Snowmen, Christmas Kids, Angels, and more.don't miss the "about us" Gingerbread boy cane and see the components of the cane from this end.
http://www.sosornaments.com/aboutornaments.htm

Cleo Mussi Mosaics
http://www.mussimosaics.co.uk/

I Met Robert Dancik at Synergy, such a nice person, along with giving some lectures in classes he introduced us to the Faux Bone™, a wonderful new material that is user friendly and inexpensive. These qualities make it the perfect material for use by jewelers, sculptors, book and mixed media artists.
http://www.robertdancik.com/
http://www.fauxbone.com/

Polymeri Online 1.5.08

Israeli Independence day is a week from today, here is a nice tutorial of our star of david flag, for the patriotic ones among us ;)
http://www.tapuz.co.il/tapuzforum/main/Viewmsg.asp?forum=1484&msgid=115919767

On the same subject - Julie Picarello wrote an interesting article about the Israeli Polymer Clay Guild, thank you Julie!
http://www.npcg.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=425&Itemid=1

Eva Soehjar is an artist from Cambridge, United Kingdom, she is experimenting in contemporary jewelery design created with a new and original technique. Every piece of her products is crafted and painted by hand to make every piece unique. So delightful!
http://margrietje.etsy.com/

Mary Tempesta, was born and grew up in Sydney, Australia and living in Italy for the past 13 years. they lived in Denmark and Holland too.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marymadeit/

telula68 or CaveLightBazaar is making interesting mosaic art with polymer clay. Her pieces are made of individual polymer clay tiles. Many of the tiles have been impressed with rubber stamp images while others are painted. In place of some tiles she uses beads, glitter or found objects.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/telula68/
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5595383

Renee Buchanan is a sculptor by passion and a chemist by profession. Her mother (Darlene) and herself started the Ragtree Company together and are expanding this year into soap and candles.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ragtree/
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5323735

Polymeri Online 11.10.07

cloud777 (Olga) is known for her detailed millefiori canes, this time it's a woman face cane, beautifully designed, take a look at the steps and blog -

http://gallery.ru/watch?p=FkY-tBfT
http://cloud777.livejournal.com/

Another useful Mokume gane tutorial by papernclay blog
http://papernclay.blogspot.com/2007/09/mogukame-gane-tutorial.html

I can't say i know much about politics in the US (i am hardly involved in politics in israel) but this site made me wonder - democrates? donkeys? can some one tell me why?
DEM DONKEYS: Handmade Jewelry for Democrats
http://demdonkeys.com/_wsn/page13.html
http://demdonkeys.com/_wsn/page8.html

Laura Peery - not polymer clay work but a great inspiration -http://www.creativepartnersart.com/Peery/02.htm

Loretta Polaski makes lovely Art Dolls including polymer clay, porcelain, cloth, paper maiche and more! Art Dolls are one of a kind, handmade, she specializes in polymer clay and use premium clay created specifically for dolls. handsculpt each doll without molds. read more in her site -
http://lorettapolaski.com/

Joshua Knuth Sculpture and Taxidermy
What an interesting work, take a look at Joshua's fish -http://www.knuthart.com/joshua/wildlife_recreations.html

Dawn M Schiller
Dawn makes Seidh, pronounced seed, these are a Tribe of Little Folk that inhabit the Forest. These tiny Fae remove ripe seeds from pods, and scatter them so there will be a plenty of trees and pods in coming Seasons. After their work is done, the Seidh then take up residence in the empty pods, curled up snug and sound for Winter.
http://www.oddfae.com/seidh.html

Joyce Geleynse babies are so cute, they are born in her studio and lie bundled up in a cloth blanket. her creations are presented in the Canadian artists and art resource directory. Visual arts from a Canadian perspective - Artists In Canada site.
http://www.artistsincanada.com/php/homepage.php?page=image&image=1955&id=3692

Geena Bregar and Dave Rybolt make beautiful mosaic work made of polymer clay miniature tiles -
http://www.soycow.com/pogo/archives/mosaics/index.html

COBRA ORIGINALS ~ Canine Breed ArtDogs sculpturings, the artist work with polymer clay, resin and other materials.
http://www.hosanna1.com/CobraOriginals/page3.html
http://www.hosanna1.com/CobraOriginals/index.html

Jackie C. Schneider is a Parkinson's patient and along with her friends create wonderful art.She works with polymer clay and specialize on faces sculpturing.
http://www.pdcreativity.org/participant.aspx?x=UIIiuLMBv9998&GFGKKNJHG=235 http://www.pdcreativity.org/catdisplay.aspx?id=0

Polymeri Online 21.2.07

Marie Sel is a fimo artist, her creations are influenced by ethnic African figures, she makes jewelry, dolls (African and others) and mosaics (not sure if they are polymer clay)http://www.mariesel.com/

heurebleue Blog features polymer clay creations: canes, products, and other things as well -http://heurebleue.canalblog.com/
Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/94651737@N00/

This a link to a cane (i think it's a dinosaur/dragon cane) - nice!http://ruefedor.canalblog.com/archives/2006/04/index.html

Polymeri Online 8.10.06

Marilyn Radzat Fantasy Dolls -

Marilyn designs amazing dolls, she has been creating art in the figure form for over 25 years. She uses the body as the canvas, transforming the sculpted piece with layers of fabric, nature's elements, and found objects.

http://www.marilynradzat.com/

Polymeri Online 26.9.06

Annette Duburg from the netherlands creates beautiful PC work in Mokume gane, silk screening, transfers and something similar to mosaics.

she is working with Polymer clay since 1999 and some of her creations published in Katherine Duncan Aimone new book.

http://home.planet.nl/~weule000/en_index.htm

Polymeri Online 27.8.06

Laurie Mika from California, While attending graduate school, Laurie worked in the Gallery at Bazaar Del Mundo in Old Town, San Diego. This work experience along with her education and extensive travels to places like India, Nepal, China, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Europe, Mexico and South America have all shaped the way her art looks today. There are definitely ethnic influences seen in her work.

great gallery!
http://www.mikaarts.com/