Polymeri Online 24.12.13 | Polymer succulents and fish, Mother nature in clay painting, Mix media jewellery, Colourful ladybug tutorial and iPhone/iPod clay chargers & Merry Christmas!

First let me wish all of you celebrating Christmas, a merry holiday with lot's of smiles, joy and wishes fulfilment!

May 2014 be joyous, pleasant, peaceful, pampering and healthy year, with endless happy family, friends, work, hobby moments!

Links?

La Derallista's clay art

Tiny little cactus pots and other succulents plants are a part of LaDerallista's world. Spanish artist Iratxe Maruri sculptures and creates her small pots as well as fish and other creatures by hand, no molds are used, and she combines other materials such as wood and acrylic paints in her pieces. 

LaDerallista tiny pots

They are so cute it's hard to choose which photo to feature!

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

Mother nature painting

Doodled creations from the Phillipins is mostly creating small cake toppers figurines and small personalised keychains but this picture, posted in her Instagram is a bit different from her usual art, It was a special ordered commissioned work; polymer clay painting of mother nature. 

The fact that polymer can be 2 or 3 dimensional produces such unique results! 

https://www.facebook.com/doodledcreations

Monika's mix media jewellery

Monica Rotta is a Facebook find. She is a mix media polymer clay artist and use various materials in her work - fabric, metal, beads, paints, powders, possibly foil and more.

In her Facebook page you will find several of her organic looking designs and some of her experiments in clay. 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Monica-Rotta-Designer/304631722974278?ref=hl

Polymer clay ladybug tutorial

Take a look at this cute beetle/lady bug project posted on Pinterest (by Belkomor), take a piece of clay, form a thick button shape and mark the eyes and middle line, then cut (I think it's cutters) it's shape and pinch with your fingers to form a half dome. Then, cut it's bottom to create a flat base. Bake and add acrylic paints or chalks!

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/52635889368659265/

Clay charger

Last trick is dedicated to your iPhone electric charger, once again there are no boundaries with polymer! 

Wondering what these are? No, they are not inros, these are charger covers made of clay! Emily Miller made millefiori tiny covers for chargers! No need to ask "where is MY charger??" any more, (these are common questions in our house!) Each one has it's own!

Great gifts!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/studioem/11371481404/

Merry Christmas!

Polymeri Online 1.7.12 | Polymer clay fish ponds, Fun jewelry and accessories, Miniature 3D painting and Plant pot tutorial

Polymer Clay Fish Pond - Suzanne Baer

I have been seeing lot's of polymer clay fish ponds lately :)
Here is one by Suzanne Baer, according to her It is an underwater world inside a jar. It took quite a while to create but she enjoyed every minute.
This pond will be shown at an exhibit at the Drahtzug on September 6th 2012.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seefeldsu/7421532428/

Polymer Clay Fish Pond - TinyStuff

TinyStuff also posted her polymer clay fish ponds in her flickr gallery, take a look at her cool looking polymer clay cuffs.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tinystuffs/sets/72157623362533263/with/5263006862/

Polymer SailBoat ribbon

Speaking of sea and fish ponds, Creashine store sure looks like a fun summer visit at the beach. The live colors, sailboat ribbons, seagull flying ring - so cute!
I love Stacey's use of the metal elements embedded in the clay!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/CreaShines

Miniature 3D Paintings

Sheryl Retener Contridas is the owner of "Sugared Lipz" creating small kawaii miniature painting and adorable accessories, these tiny creations always makes me wonder if these artists have a special pair of miniatures hands...
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sugared-Lipz/146530078766341

Polymer Clay Plant Pot Tutorial

Get your mellon scoop ready for another miniature project - a plant pot tutorial!
This cute decoration doesn't need too much space and will color your desk or shelf with a touch of nature :)
http://transientexpression.com/tutorial-tiny-polymer-clay-plant-pots/

Lot's of tutorials (most non polymer) are offered in Transientexpression blog.

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Polina & Sergey from Ukraine makes jewelry made of polymer clay, transfer and resin, how beautiful!

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

Penni Jo found a cool way to make cabs with embeded flower and leaf canes, she is slicing canes and placing them on the bottom of her mold, then place clay on the slices and when everything is pressed well she demold it and the pattern is smooth and nice!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pennijo/4629132763/

Rev byrd is making clay painting over a marbeled "canvas", All paintings are made with polymer clay, no actual paint involved, they are fairly abstract, with a strong bias towards Zentangles and fairly small, they range from 4 in by 4 in.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/revbyrd/sets/72157623676691172/

Look at this cute face fish magnet by Liat Ripp from Israel, he really has a face expression!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/45580602/bluefish?ref=v1_other_1

Polymeri Online 19.11.09

I had a great week, worked continuesly in my studio on a big keychain order, a family from the states contacted me about a Bat-Mitzva they are doing on Hannukah, in Israel, they want to give each guest a personalized gift, it's such a pleasure and joy making these keychain! i am always thankful for people appreciating a unique handmade gift.

Mari kasurinen is an art student from Lahti, Finland. i found her in the new "1000 ideas for creative re-use" book i posted about few days ago and learned that she is working with super sculpey in her sculptings. Her known little ponies are changed, modified, re-sculpted into a theme (or a celebrity), they are truly amazing and some of them are even funny (check out her lady gaga pony & elvis presly pony in the photo).
http://www.marikasurinen.com/sculptures_main.html
http://spippo.deviantart.com/gallery/

Karen Hernandez made a HUGE Christmas cane! i just love seeing the process and final result!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/khernandezart/page2/

Wanna know how to make a Polymer Clay Bezels? check the tutorial by Tina holden
http://beadcomber.blogspot.com/2009/10/making-polymer-clay-bezels-and-maybe.html don't forget to check her handmade makin's exptruder handle how-to
http://beadcomber.blogspot.com/2009/10/need-handle.html

Gabriel studios / Michele is working in polymer clay and handpainted textiles, her speciality is Polymer clay which is sculpted, stamped and hand-painted.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michelegabrielstudios/4085512103/

Polymeri Online 25.7.09 - Emi Sfard

My 3rd & last artist in this sequence is Emi Sfard from Israel, ever since she remembers herself she has been painting, illustrating, sculpting and disassembling devices to see how they work. she was five year old when started attending the Youth Wing of the Israeli Museum of Art, which soon became her second home. There, she was exposed to a world of materials and to the history of art, and learned jewelry, sculpturing, painting, and more.
Later, she studied carpentry for a couple of years. In parallel, took private lessons in drawing and painting with the artist Marek Yanai.

Her first degree in Industrial Design is from Bezalel Academy of Art. she worked as an industrial designer for five years, whereas three of them were spent in Frog Design, Milan Italy. At the end of this period she realized that her passion was still, as it has always been, illustration, painting and sculpting.

Today, she is living in Tel-Aviv and dedicate herself to illustration and painting.

The photo i've included in this post is one of photos made for a 3D Passover Hagada, The illustration work was done by sculpting scenes that were then photographed using special equipment and method to create a 3D image.

http://www.emisfard.com/

Polymeri Online 2.7.09 and some vacation adventures

Hello everyone, at the moment i am writting my post from the hotel lobby (i am in Eilat, which is the southest city in Israel, the perfect place for vacations and holidays), family is with me and we took a short vacation as a great summer start, school is over and we are enjoying the summer with pool, sun and... swimming with Dolphins! yesterday i had the most amazing adventure when both me and the kids took a short dive with dolphins, what an experience! recommended (if you have some dolphins around :)

i cannot forget you all, so i am here for some PC links...

Amazing polymer clay sculptures by Owen Klaas, As a child he was constantly drawing and practicing the art of caricature. About ten years ago he discovered polymer clay and his art would never be the same. he realized that he could turn his one dimensional drawings of weirdness into fully realized three dimensional objects of weirdness, and of course
(like all of us), he was hooked :) - see photo of beatles
http://www.fiendishthingies.com/

MandarinMoon / Chris Kapono Born and raised in Missouri, she has been painting and drawing for most of her life, loves animals and anything to do with nature and the outdoors. she is making oragnic, stamped creations, uses glass gems painted with acrylic and metallic paint. some of her glass vases has Holes cut in the clay to allow light to shine through.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandarinmoon/
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5669610
http://www.mandarinmoonart.blogspot.com/

taiping wawa from China makes small cute & unique sculptrings, i wish i could see more of her photos :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wawa1380/

My fellow friend and clayer Angela, opened (finally) her Hamsa store, take a look, it's beautiful.
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7239618

Polymeri Online 23.5.09

It's saturday today and i am breathing a bit, had to post my polymeri weekly list before i fly (not sure i can do it next week!)

MaryLClayPainting / Mary is making 'paintings' from clay. each clay 'painting' is made of 100% Polymer Clay, her 'Canvas' is Premo polymer clay (selected for its stiffer qualities) and her 'paints' are the softer, buttery clays of Sculpey III and Fimo soft. she has written a tutorial explaining the process that can be see on Polymer Clay Central. read more about her in her flickr profile...
her etsy shop 'Wonderful Wire'

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6592108

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marylclaypainting/collections/72157606719504258/

Chama Navarro from spain (which i am going to meet in UK), she has a cool and simple project for some paper clips and pen holders, there is a youtube film in her site to show it all, and the spanish sounds to me like a song (even though i can't understand a word!) :)http://chamanavarro.blogspot.com/2009/05/utilisima-bien-simple-conjunto-de.html

Kerryn Jean Online is a sculpturer from Australia, she sculpts doll, animals, fantasy creatures, wish there was more info about her and her work in her site.
http://kerrynjeanonline.com.au/

Stephanie Scheetz published a nice tutorial in CRAFT blog for paper beads that can be easily adopted into polymer clay too! a paper clip bangle using safety pins - try it!http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/05/how-to_paper_bead_bangle.html?CMP=OTC-5JF307375954

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Mariya Kulakova from Russia paints beautifully on polymer clay, she is 20 years old.
she makes lampwork beads and and drew her paintings directly on the beads.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28488923@N05/3469265765/

http://k-tata.livejournal.com/

Sharon Henry loves working with wire & artist's focal beads as well as mixing fibers with various materials to create unique wearable treasures, she has used some of a fellow artist beads - Zuda Gay and does wonders with designing them in her creations.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/manamoon/

Christine dumont makes such unique shaped beads, it makes me want to join a polymer clay
orchestra for some reason... do you see what i see? a shape of wind instruments :) her pieces were shortlisted in the Progress and Possibilities 2008.
http://www.allovercreation.net/

Dolores Marple has 3 tutorials in her blog she makes fairies, dogs dragons and anything else that comes to mind.
http://followingtrolltracks.blogspot.com/

http://www.trolltracks.etsy.com/

Polymeri Online 30.8.07

End of Summer, kids are still home here in Israel, 3 more days to school - ya!!!after 2 weeks here are some new links - few Flickr Links, and more...

Noemi - startistik (from Spain?) she is a graphic designer, artistic in soul, her biggest love in the world are the animals and especially hers :)her amazing sculpturing skills for portraits, images, figures is beautiful!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/noemihurtado/

Gaby Birrer from Lungern, Schweiz makes colorful art with FIMO -http://www.flickr.com/photos/perlengaby/
Her album:
http://www.oxp.de/01a767dbe7cd42341d7ed2dc830a3f9d/Album/7683_0

Shirley Catherine Anderson is drawing and sculpting from life and from photos specializing in realism. she makes Custom Art Portraits, her work won several awards of excellence for sculpture.
http://www.andersonpaintings.com/history.htm

Tamara dozier - Tamara works in several mediums, from painting to sculpting to 3D animation. Her art tends towards fantasy but she is comfortable painting and sculpting in several styles.
http://tamaradozier.blogspot.com/

One of a kind Santa's and artdolls by Karen Vander Logt
Karen Vander Logt started sculpting Santa's and Art dolls in 1999. She is a self taught artist, She hand-sculpts each of her "One-of-a-kind" dolls using prosculpt polymer clay, glass eyes, angora mohair for her Santa's
and high quality human hair wigs for her dolls, along with her own handmade armature inside of a cloth body.
http://www.karenvanderlogt-artdolls.com/

Marianne Reitsma dolls
Marianne comes from a creative family and has been involved with art all her life. From teaching sculpting classes to having a successful career as an international doll artist with her sister Martha Boers both from Canada, Marianne finds doll art a great form of expression. this is a true jewel, amazing!
http://www.mreitsmadesign.com/
http://www.mreitsmadesign.com/dollart/mandmweb/index.html

and a photo from the "art doll quarterly"
http://www.stampington.com/assets/images/art_doll_quarterly/1art2006/1art0601_sprd_07.jpg
Lady Artisan
Lady Artisan focuses on two main themes: sculpting and ancient history. She likes sculpting figures, characters she's made up, because it gives her the opportunity to explore who they are, what they’re like, and why they’re here. Ancient art, writing, and cultural themes have captured her imagination since I was very young. she works in mixed media, mainly polymer clay.
http://www.ladyartisan.com/

TIC-TAC-TIPS
Use Tic-Tac containers for you beads :)
http://blogs.oddsocks.net/ahunt/2007/08/22/tic-tac-tut-orial/

Carol S. Zilliacus
Carol is making Polymer PaintingShe cut or tear repeated shapes out of the blended sheet of clay. she either replaced these on the original sheet or I place them on another one. Next she put the new sheet through a wide pasta machine or an
intaglio printing press. This causes the patterns to be stretched and distorted. Next she draw designs on the wet clay & cure it. When it has cooled, she apply acrylic paint. Lastly she wipes it off to achieve an embossed effect.
http://www.carolszilliacusartist.com/index.htm
http://www.carolszilliacusartist.com/polymerpntings.htm

Wired Ladies began when two friends in northern Minnesota, who both enjoyed crafts, began making their own beads for use in their jewelry - Sherry Gilstad - Wired Lady #1 and Mary LaFrance - Wired Lady #2 and they make these cute Wired Lady Pins -http://www.wiredladies.com/index.htm
http://www.wiredladies.com/jewelry.htm

Last - Scrap Feather Cane by Robin Milne http://www.polkadotcreations.com/books/article.php?id=pdcrm01

Polymeri Online 19.7.06

Susan Waddington love dogs and you can see that just by looking at her jewlery that are devoted to portraits of dogs.

She combine painting and polymer clay.

http://polydogz.com/Gallery1/Custom-Dog-Jewelry

Polymeri Online 30.4.06

Some intersting Sites -

Leslie Blackford from MoodyWoods created very special sculpturing in polymer clay
http://www.scrtc.com/~turtles4/

and Katerina Musetti which creates bags, jewlery and others combined with polymer clay, transfers and painting. colorful!
http://www.katerinamusettidesigns.com/