Polymeri Online 21.1.13 | "Brave" mix media, Gems and faceted polymer clay, Wild stone tutorial, Tom and the clock, More from my working table

Inspirational Jewelry

Janet olson - ChickieGirlCreations creates beautiful pendants using so many techniques and materials! polymer clay, acrylic paints, inks, pens, sealers, textures, distress and patterns. Her mix media jewelry are all about color, and texture. She mentions she is influenced by nature, and as a result lean toward rustic and distressed designs. She also enjoys art journalism and positive messages interwoven in her art.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/ChickieGirlCreations
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8823440@N07/

Faceted Polymer and Sterling

Marta Lugo design and creates contemporary jewels by transforming daily objects into jewelry pieces, her recent "Poliedra" collection is her interpretation of gems and faceted stones using sterling silver and polymer clay.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/martalugojewels

Wild Stone Beads Tutorial

"pink_lizzard" Julia is sharing with us her "wild stone" beads class. She says this effect was a happy accident. It all started as a watercolor technique project placed on a paper for a while, and after 2 weeks(!) on the paper she ended up with zero plasticizer and a very dry pile of clay. Then, turned it into beads.
It reminds me of those old Terrazzo floor tiles.
http://polymerclayfimo.livejournal.com/3609789.html

Tom's Clock Adventures

I came across "The Brooding Tom's" clock video on YouTube and dug inside a little more. The artist (tom?) is sharing his detailed experiments on sculpturing and creating large pieces, letting us know what worked and what went wrong in each project.
In the clock video series he is going through all the details for creating the piece until completion.
Fascinating work! Don't miss his recent alien videos.
https://www.facebook.com/PolymerClaySculpting
http://youtu.be/s_WPYMJ5gs0

I am continuing my CFCF samples - bags and beads this week, It is been a while since I did production work, and returning to that busy and meditating work (such as painting, shaping, gluing pins and zippers) is quite relaxing (and I am not including sanding into the "relaxing" category...)
Feels great to repeat the same project in different shapes, colors and designs, challenge to the mind and hands. I really enjoy it.

"Hamburger" Bag, I really liked it's shape!

Disc Chic Beads | Flakes Technique

Alien's bag? Can't decide on it's name

"Brocade Collection" Polymer clay purses - all zippered up

INKredible Polymer | NEW Alcohol Inks Polymer Clay Tutorial

Long before the era of digital age, with laptops, ipads and smart phones, there was only INK.
Incredible, isn't it?

INKredible Polymer!
Alcohol Inks Polymer Clay Tutorial

Can you imagine how the world would look like without INK?

Books, newspapers, love letters, piano notes, symphonies and art paintings might look different from how you know them theses days.
INK made the whole difference.

Thousands of years ago, the human kind began using ink for writing.
This was the beginning of a wonderful journey for this fascinating material, and for the last months, also for me.

My new tutorial is dedicated to a unique relationship between polymer clay and INK -
INKredible.

INKredible Polymer!
Alcohol Inks Polymer Clay Tutorial

I am happy to reveal my quest discoveries, while exploring, using, mixing, nearly fighting to turn Inked polymer clay into a new chemistry element :)

Although I was a complete beginner using alcohol inks 3 months ago, a special request by a friend introduced me into a new adventure.

Studying, researching, experimenting, practicing, mixing, and learning all about Alcohol inks, head to tow, top to bottom.

INKredible Polymer!
Alcohol Inks Polymer Clay Tutorial

My 3 months journey and insights are offered to you in these INKredible classes.

Click here to reveal the INK secrets...

http://www.polypediaonline.com/133688/inkredible_polymerclay_alcoholinks_tutorial

The complete package includes -
3 INKredible classes; 15 exciting projects, 8 videos and 40 giveaway pendants to celebrate my 40th tutorials anniversary.

Special promotion offer expires on June 30th!

http://www.polypediaonline.com/133688/inkredible_polymerclay_alcoholinks_tutorial

Polymeri Online 9.5.12 | Polymer clay jewelry, Bracelet mold casting, Translucent experiments and sleepless nights pendants

After a short break, we are back to PolymeriOnline links for this week -

I found a nice polymer PR in Hacklock blog - "featuring polymer clay as art". I loved Heather's comparison of children drawings vs. professional drawing, it is obviously the same with polymer clay, the more people realize this, the more our material upgrade it's position as an art medium and not a children material. http://hacklock.net/category/polymer-clay-artists/

Heather Blacklock Camera Pendants

You can see more of this Australian artist (Heather Blacklock) in her Etsy site
http://www.etsy.com/shop/hacklock

Del Moro Polymer Clay Jewelry

Among Meredith Dittmar, Shay Aaron miniatures and Pier Voulkus, she featured Del Moro which was featured here 4 years ago, He is a polymer clay designer, chemicist and technologist who works in various techniques and produce interesting designs you'd find yourself taking a 2nd look at. I specifically liked his polymer clay guitar collection.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30251473@N05/
You can find one of his tutorials in 2008's PolymeriOnline post -
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/42/wrb.6/0_1d4d6_d0a7dcd1_orig

Polymer Clay - Mold Casting

Sweet Willow Designs's blog is full of useful tips and information.  She is creating mixed media jewelry and worked in many different mediums including paint, metal, fiber, fabric and what not. Her studio name, Sweet Willow Designs, is a nod to the many hours she spent under the willow tree in her grandparents' Haverhill, Massachusetts home.
I encourage you to take a look at her other posts, but chose this one to see her 2 steps bracelet mold making. I specifically liked her "saving material" tips on  placing a plug of scrap clay for the center of the bracelet to save on the amount of silicone rubber she'll need to use.
http://sweetwillowdesigns.blogspot.com/2010/01/experiment-resin-casting-part-1-making.html
http://sweetwillowdesigns.blogspot.com/2010/02/experiment-resin-casting-part-2-casting.html
And her Flickr gallery - http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweetwillowdesigns/

Garie Sim Transluecent Polymer Clay Experiments

Garie Sim shares with us his tips "how to improve the clarity of Translucent Liquid Sculpey (TLS)" adding unusual materials! clay softener?  Enamel Transparent Paints - Take a look.
http://www.garieinternational.com.sg/clay/shop/clear_tls.htm

Marjana Polymer Clay Pendant

Last one for today is Marjana from Slovenia, her pendants caught my eye and when visiting her blog she tells us that they were a result of 3 sleepless nights (sick child) and when she decided to stay home (like a zombie), these were her new creations using paints, wood and fimo. I hope her child is feeling better :) I'd be happy to see more of her creations when everyone is healthy.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48194773@N05/

http://vilinskisvet.blogspot.com/2012/04/prazniki.html

Speaking of health, not polymer clay related - after getting the beautiful Blurb photo album from our USA trip by the post messenger, (Blurb are great, b.t.w!), I was so busy looking at the photos while walking down the stairs that I.... fell. 

Lesson to be learned, don't look at photo albums when you go down your stairs.
Lucky me, I didn't break anything but now I am walking like a duck.

Polymeri Online 25.6.09

Clay illustration - Tammy Durham sculptures wonderful trees and birds, to her they represent freedom and she tries to capture that moment.
http://www.tammydurham.com/

Susan Averello from Fantazy Clay is sharing her pixie tutorial with us, this cute figure is just asking me to try!
http://saverello.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-make-pixie.html

Claire Maunsell is a professional glass blower for almost 20 years, since the family move around a lot, she have been working with a medium that is much more portable for her -polymer clay has many of the characteristics of hot glass - malleable, brilliant colours, ability to build millifiori canes and more!
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=65426

Look at this cute Dog cane by Israeli artist Ben-David !
http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/ViewEntry.asp?EntryId=1499471
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26896606

Dumauvobleu from france, is a self taught polymer clay artist since 2007, jewelry designer
and painter. Her unique pendants are made from canes, blends, sheets, textures, stripes and interesting designs.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dumauvobleu/
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5518984

Polymeri Online 29.12.08

Last Polymeri for 2008 :)

Alexandra Garnik makes beads, pendants and necklaces of polymer clay, she enhance those pendants with seed beeds which makes them so beautiful.
http://alexandragarnik.etsy.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29200722@N07/

Malt Suger has sweet tasted millefiori goodies - bag hangers, buckles - canes at their best http://www.flickr.com/photos/malt_sugar/sets/72157608706893686/

OrganicOdysseys / Zayit Galefull specializing in Judaic art and polymer clay art fashioned from organic produce, she explores all the wonders of the organic farm through her chosen medium, polymer clay.
http://almostartifacts.etsy.com/
http://organicodysseys.etsy.com/
http://organicodysseys.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/organicodysseys/

Rolling beads? why don't you use shampoo bottles as a tool? a great low-budget recycled accessory!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8513681@N07/2864492723/sizes/o/

and speaking of nalette's photostream, check her antiqued items using polymer clay, faux ivory etc..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8513681@N07/

last sweet - Marymade.it - Mary Tempesta, born and grew up in Sydney, Australia and living in Italy for the past 12 years Polymer clay is her passion…it hardly feels like work to her! (and she is so right!) she started working with polymer clay about 13 years ago, she makes animals, dolls and fairies and witches, music boxes, picture frames and jewelery.
http://www.marymade.it/page/4/

Stay tuned for 1st January voting on polymer clay artists guild of etsy january challenge - black and white this time! LOTS of prizes for voters! i will be posting as a reminder :)

Polymeri Online 4.12.08

Stéphanie Kilgast is a 23 years old architecture student living near Paris. she loves doing creative stuff, like miniatures, but also knitting, painting, drawing and architecture, Miniatures are her actual passion. luckily for us every donut has about 1 calorie ;)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/_sk/
http://petitplat.110mb.com/

check out the 7th Annual of The Ugly Necklace Contest, 2009 :)http://www.landofodds.com/store/uglynecklace.htm

Fairy Fantasy by kathleen Engelen - started creating years ago, probably when she was eleven years old, her mother came home from a fair. She brought some books about how to clay tiny figures with fimo. Kathleen immediately started sculpting, and how they were right! she fell in love with this clay immediately and still after all these years love to sculpt with polymer clay.
http://www.kathleenengelen.be/about.htm

The Fantasy art of Nicole West, she has been an artist pretty much her whole life. her mom tells her that she saw it in her as a small child when she would bite animal shapes out of her toast. she was lucky to have a mom that let her run free with her artistic muse, even as far as letting her draw murals on my bedroom wall :)
http://www.pbase.com/nicolewest/all_galleries

A project! Textured pendant by Cyndi Lavin
http://www.bead-arts.com/textured-polymer-clay-pendant/
http://www.bead-arts.com/category/polymer-clay/

Polymeri Online - 3.4.08 Australia #2

More Aussie Artists!

Sera Pinwill - The Fabulous Frippist
Sera has been working with polymer for over a decade, and have developed a fascination for perfect finishes. Whether its glossy and sleek or textured and antiqued - if its done well, she loves it. her own polymer work ends up in elaborately bead embroidered collars, as well as more conventional jewellery. Her next project is a doll - although her first dolls head effort was rather tragic, when the whole head developed giant cracks in three places, but she will keep up trying! :)
http://fabulousfrippery.etsy.com/

Chez have dabbled in polymer clay for over 15 years now but have been more seriously involved as a polymerclay artist in the last 3 years. she loves work that is original and unique. Everything she makes is hand made. She loves to sculpture mermaids and fairies as well as babies.
http://www.diamondlight.biz/
http://chezart.etsy.com/

Janis Frost - "Shades of Frost" has been creating with polymer clay for nearly two years and loves it.
http://shadesoffrost.blogspot.com/
www.frostmedia.com.au/janisfrost/

Lisa Henderson of LillyBriar Studio is a Polymer clay artesian and teacher. she had published work and projects in Australian magazines and she is a National award winner. http://www.lillybriar.com/
http://flickr.com/photos/32091010@N00/

last -Julie Doust - Love Julz, she has been poly claying for around a year and a half. she found a niche in making polymer clay covered pens and matching stands. she enjoys creating polymer clay beads and pendant etc, then incorporating these with other types of beads, glass, crystals and gemmies! Have recently found a love for making leaf tiles and polymer clay tube bracelets on memory wire.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27779351@N00/

Polymeri Online 3.1.08

This week it's flickrmania again, An International round this time, so many talented artists i found!

Ruby Shoes Sam / Sandra Miller
She is serving the US Air Force since 1984 and have been a member of the the Michigan Air National Guard since 1996, In her spare time, she likes to handcraft pendants and beads from polymer clay.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby_shoes_sam/
http://www.etsy.com/shop/RubyShoesSam

Campanita de hojalata - Along with her drawings, oil, leather and felt she is working with fimo too. her lovely face pins are beautiful.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7950510@N06/sets/72157602936353652/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/7950510@N06/collections/72157602475131477/ http://campanitadehojalata.wordpress.com/

Pedacinhos de Arte / Helena Salazar from Portugal
She has some passions in her life: 2 children, husband, 2 dogs, Psychology, the family and the FIMO.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16500111@N07/

PIG MAMA / ANN from Taiwan, is such a talented new artist, her dolls sculpturing are so sweet and beautiful!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17889085@N03/

V. Neely is making tiny, little dragon sculptures
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonwhimsy/
http://dragonwhimsy.com/

Fimo Maniguette / Maniguette from France
She has been working with fimo for two years and could not find the limits.... :) The jewels led her to the objects, who will know where the objects will carry her to...(translated from her profile)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14459304@N06/
http://maniguette.canalblog.com/

lapatamodeleuse / Joséphine BROTHIER
Cuties! don't miss her Circus!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zephine/
http://www.lapatamodeleuse.com/

MATA_polymer Clay / robert lee from Taiwan
Twinn Q'Doll is Twinn Cute Doll. This handmade skill is popular with Asian Market, and Taiwan have some artist depends on this skill to earn money on night market for those who wish to request gift of self doll portrait.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mata_pc/
http://360.yahoo.com/trasia_robert

snowfireooakfantasys culptures - She is a self taught artist and have been sculpting for about 2 years now, likes to sculpt fantasy figures.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13953817@N03/

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 28.6.07

Margaret Reagan makes silk-screen-like canework, and unique shaped canes -http://www.mregan.com/

Our friend garieinternational is making realistic looking miniature cake tutorial along with a lesson on creating polymer clay paint and then use this to bake the cake -http://www.garieinternational.com.sg/clay/miniature_cake.htm

COLLECTIONS BIJOUX MATHILDE BRUN - jewelry and ooak work -
http://lathilde.canalblog.com

Rebecca wells - her bio, such an interesting story (taken word by word from her site):Rebecca’s love for art began early in life and has continued to grow and develop throughout the years. She has owned several floral shops and won awards nationally for her floral artistry. In 1998 when her business burned down, Rebecca decided to pursue other venues and returned to school to pursue her Master’s degree in Behavioral Science. She teaches full time as an adjunct professor of Psychology and Sociology at Alvin Community College. After finishing school, Rebecca discovered that her creative juices were begging for an outlet. Thus, she began claying. Rebecca has worked in both earthen clay and polymer clay, but her passion is polymer. Her influence comes heavily from her love of nature and floral design. In addition, her love of color and all things organic is reflected in a large portion of her work.
http://www.sublimeclay.com/

Kristine Taylor - Jewelry art, Necklaces, Pendants, Earings and more.
http://homepage.mac.com/designsbykristine/DBK/index.html

Sonya's Hands On Creations' - Sonya's sites are showing us some nice ideas of using scrap clay and making nice millefiori canes -
http://handsoncreations.wordpress.com/
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=2898996&uid=1491148 http://handsoncreations.spaces.live.com/

if you have'nt used all your spare hours at the computer, in theclaystore forums you can sit and forget to get up :)
http://forums.theclaystore.com/

3 Artists from Flickr -
Anebela Romano from Portugal -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maoseart/

Nata Nei from Israel
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40396713@N00/

Claudia Reis -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sofia_filipe/

Diana Brown - Diana says she has no rhyme or reason for what she creates, whatever strikes her fancy...
http://www.dylinn.com/

Pat's Polymer - Pat is making sculpturings, fairies and other...
http://www.patsart.com/

Polymeri Online 5.3.07

Vandelso Designs - Vesta and Norma Giles
Their speciality is buttons, jewelry and home accessories - all handmade from Polymer Clay.

These mother and daughter started making buttons to friends and family and soon expended their business.

why Vandelso ? Vandelso is a tiny island off the west coast of Sweden where many of their ancestors came from.

http://www.vandelsodesigns.com/

Barbara Lang has been an artist her whole life working with fabric, paper and various objects to create flat as well as three dimensional pieces. her recent devotion is working with polymer clay. she combines it with found objects, imagery and especially like the faux stone techniques to create unique jewelry and art pieces.

http://www.barbaralang.com/default.asp http://www.barbaralang.com/PolymerClay/index.html

Polymeri Online 11.1.07

Enchanted Visions ClayArt by Lisa Taylor designes floral pendants
http://www.freewebs.com/enchantedvisionclayart/index.htm

And the poly parrot Site - a good source for good information:
http://thepolyparrot.com/

Polymeri Online 16.11.06

Judy Belcher - a great artist and some great movie tutorials!

1st -

Filigree Purse with Polymer Clay Leaf Canes

http://www.firemountaingems.com/beading_howtos/pbstutorials.asp?docid=5B3B&WT.cg_s=Beads+Baubles+Jewels&sact=search

2nd -

Stamped Mokume Gane Pendant using Hill Tribes Silver Pendant

http://www.firemountaingems.com/beading_howtos/pbstutorials.asp?docid=5B43&WT.cg_s=Beads+Baubles+Jewels&sact=search

main page at -http://www.firemountaingems.com/pbs/

Polymeri Online 31.8.06

Donnelly Arts - Woodturnings

Tom and Margaret Donnelly are artists as well as professionals in the technology industry and live and work in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Margaret's "second" career as an artist and designer was born out of the desire to send personalized greeting cards to family and friends, Tom's obsession with wood is well-known. He even drives around neighborhoods looking for stacks of wood from felled trees.

http://donnellyarts.googlepages.com/home

Polymeri Online 7.8.06

Mandala (Sanskrit "circle", "completion") is of Hindu origin and is also used in most Dharmic religions, such as Buddhism and Hinduism, to refer to various tangible objects. In Vajrayana they have been developed into sandpainting. In practice, mandala has become a generic term for any plan, chart or geometric pattern which represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically, a microcosm of the universe from the human perspective.
A mandala, especially its center, can be used during meditation as an object for focusing attention. The symmetrical geometric shapes tend to draw the attention towards their center.

Tami's Shvar Mandala
http://www.tapuz.co.il/tapuzforum/main/Viewmsg.asp?forum=1484&msgid=75143498

Close Look -
http://www.tapuz.co.il/tapuzforum/main/Viewmsg.asp?forum=1484&msgid=75143675

Another Mandala

http://www.tapuz.co.il/tapuzforum/main/Viewmsg.asp?forum=1484&msgid=80840041

to Tami's Gallery - Mandalas

http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=8751561&uid=4183266

Byrd Tetzlaff
http://www.pbase.com/revbyrd/mandala__gallery

and also -
http://www.3wave.com/chhome/cha/claymndl.html

pcpolyzine Mandala
http://www.pcpolyzine.com/november2001/mandala.html

Mandala drawings-

http://www.artwithaheart.com/mandalas/index.html

Denise Aratangy pendant from flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/denisearatangy/116057331/

Mandala cane from kerstin site
http://www.kerstinsfimoseite.de/fimo/anhaenger10.html

Polymeri Online 2.7.06

Bead Ranch - just name it and you have it in the bead ranch - millefiori beads, pendants, pins, purse charm and more!

http://beadranch.stores.yahoo.net/index.html