Polymeri Online 16.9.11 | Sculpted heroes, Pumpkin decoration, Locket Portraits and Art dolls

Michael Leavitt hates making normal art. The Art Army Royalty, his new work, is a project in which Leavitt creates one of a kind, fully articulated sculptures by hand in an “action figure” scale, each in the likeness of a well-known artist, incorporating the style of the subject’s artwork.

Since 2002, this ongoing series of unique sculptures represent artists from every great movement of Modern and Contemporary Art, from Warhol to Banksy.

Each figure is sculpted from scratch in polymer clay, surface-finished and texturized with acrylic paint and mixed media. Leavitt engineers the miniature sculptures with articulating joints, assembling moving body parts with elastic cord so that the figures can be posed.

See Cynthia tinnaple (PCD) post and video on how Michael builds his figures.

http://intuitionkitchenproductions.com/

Spanish artist Noia Land posted a cool photo tutorial to create a cute pumpkin decoration -

http://www.flickr.com/photos/noialand/6140484251/in/contacts/

check out her blog for more cute tutorials and art -

http://noialand.blogspot.com/

Reinhard (Männeken) uses Fimo clay to create perfect portraits of people and other entities, this ability is something I admire so much as I don't have any sculpturing talent :)

Take a look at this photo of him, showing some kind of wooden clip covered with polymer clay to be used as legs.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/63875527@N07/5821331152/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/63875527@N07/

and speaking of portraits, ClayCatShop special portrait lockets reminds me something from my childhood, their smiley faces, colors and innocence. I love it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/claycatshop/6147936904/in/photostream

Have a great weekend!

Polymeri Online 25.6.11 | Pumpkin Beads, Ribbon Bracelet, Norwegian PC and Recycled Labyrinth

A cool fun and free tutorial by Slovenian artist Roberta Mohar for her wonderful pumpkin beads!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/58625130/Robertine-bu%C4%8Dke-navodila

http://robertam.blogspot.com/2011/06/robertine-bucke-navodila-za-izdelavo.html

UK artist Hazel Ward started making polymer clay beads in 2009 after finding, like many of us, that she prefer to use artisan handmade beads in her jewelry designs.

Most of her art is based on millefiori canes, look at this ribbon style bracelet, and her blog is full of wonderful posts and tips for all us polymer clay lovers

http://allthosethingsandtheotherstoo.blogspot.com/2011/01/polymer-clay-tips.html

and this one is definitely for all addicted PC people -

http://allthosethingsandtheotherstoo.blogspot.com/2009/06/polymer-clay-addiction.html

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

http://www.continuumdesigns.co.uk/index.html

Christel Jensen is a Norwegian, married mother of two grown up girls. She has been claying since the 90-ties and written several craft books in norwegian, but that was a long time ago. Currently she is very busy building a new home and is excited about making a new studio in it!

You can find some of her miniature tutorials in Youtube - mini polymer teapots and cupcakes and jewelry in her blog.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ChristelJensen

http://www.polymerart.blogspot.com/

This Fimo labyrinth using a CD case from Teri of Giddy Giddy for kids is a wonderful example of reuse and recycling. She shares several versions of maze styles, and I imagine kids would have fun coming up with their own as well! a summer vacation project!

http://bkids.typepad.com/bookhoucraftprojects/2011/05/project-85-cd-case-labyrinth.html