Polymeri Online 18.10.15 | Illustrating with polymer, 3D vase veneering, Rounded millefiori candy beads and Rusty horrors!

Great Halloween goodies!

Helena Bogosian is an award winning artist known for her 3-D clay illustrations. She is the creator of the popular Clay Quests series of puzzle books and her clay illustrations have been featured in books, magazines, posters, and websites. She is using polymer clay for her illustrations, which she sculpts and then digitally photographs. All preliminary sketches are done in clay as well.

Don't miss her clay animations videos.

www.helenabogosian.com

www.instagram.com/hbogosianart

Olga Perova is a polymer clay sculptor creating both jewellery in different techniques as well as figures with a character. Some of her large sized vases has a ceramic base which is covered with polymer clay. According to her Facebook page she is currently living in London.

www.instagram.com/olgaperova9977

https://www.facebook.com/olga.perova

Ju Lau Shtuki is an instagram find which I had difficulty finding more about. She is a polymer clay artist enjoying her time creating beautiful round beads made of tiny millefiori canes in lovely shades and colours. It seems like she is a seller of clay supplies in Russia but I couldn't understand much from the translation and photos in her gallery. Beautiful beads!

www.instagram.com/ju.lau.shtuki

Imge Celepci calls her art “Rusty Blonde Art”. What does this means? Does it have any connection to the fact that she is a beautiful blond lady who specializes on scary figurines sculpturing?

She is a painter, sculptor, singer, vegetarian, horror fan from Istanbul and her instagram gallery is full of known and un-known faces all bloddy and scared J perfect to Halloween!

Say hi to Johnny Depp and Chucky for me!

www.facebook.com/rustyblondeart

www.etsy.com/shop/rustyblonde

www.instagram.com/imgecelepci

Let’s give polymer a twist! New upcoming tutorial – GUESS & WIN!

Hello Everyone!
It’s good to be back ☺

For the past year I have been exploring new methods to upgrade our polymer clay work, give it a twist up.

Many of you asked me in my tutorial survey, for new ways to combine polymer clay artwork in mix media work while creating something beyond the basics.

The time has come! 

I am happy to announce my brand-new class, which will be offered in the next few days.

After working (for almost 9 months!) I have created over 60 videos and 50 projects, my “baby” is almost here!
Just few final pushes and it will be out ;)

Curious to know what it is all about? 

You’re welcomed to join the guessing game here and offer your best guess!

One of you will be the winner of a free project of your choice! 

There are a lot more to come!
Freebies, gifts and endless surprises, stay tuned!

If you want to be notified when the new class is announced, join the Express mailing list!

Now, Join the guessing @ PolyPediaOnlineExpress :)
http://www.polypediaonlineexpress.com/lets-give-polymer-twist-new-upcoming-tutorial-guess-win/

Polymeri Online 10.5.14 | Portugal's polymer colors, Personalised cutlery, Summer-is-here ice cream pen tutorial, Bicycle tires stamps and my new PPE website launching soon

Bokwus polymer clay jewelry

Bokwus - Susana Alves has her own  accessories store in Lisbon, Portugal (if I understood the translation correctly) and uses polymer clay in a wide variety of colours and geometric ethnic designs together with embroidery polymer.
Her jewellery designs are alive and vibrant and her keychain collection is so lovely.
With 69K Facebook fans I am sure her style is very much loved.
https://www.facebook.com/bokwus?fref=photo
https://www.etsy.com/shop/Bokwus

Speaking of polymer clay embroidery, here is a quick 2 minutes video (although this work is not considered quick at all!!) showing you the process and patience it requires.
Love the music ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=8vccfxVH_xg
Mo Clay offered many polymer clay video tutorials in her channel including spiderman cane, ghost and halloween bat cane.

Rada's fun polymer clay personalised cutlery

Serbian artist Rada Danilovic's Etsy shop is full of cute and colourful personalised cutlery.
Since early childhood she learned from her mother, grandmother and aunts all about the handmade work - sewing, knitting and crocheting.  In her profession she is an agricultural engineer but life took her in a creative path and in the past 10 years she is working as an interior and furniture designer.

When becoming a mother, she discovered a new medium - polymer clay. 

Her designs are happy, colourful and fun. You could find a set for each mood or theme!

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

Polyform free polymer clay ice-cream pen tutorial

Polyform people are doing a lot of marketing these days, promoting their new tools and materials which look very attractive and appealing... Yum!
They have announced the new Souffle clay and many other tools we'd be happy to add to our studio.
Here is one of the tutorials I found in their newly designed website demonstrating a fun ice-cream theme for a pen. So cute!
Add this one to your activities list during kids summer vacation!
http://www.sculpey.com/project/pluffy-ice-cream-cone-pen/

Use your old bicycle tires to create stamps!

What would you do with your old bicycle tires? trow them away? No!
Use them to create stamps!
In this super cool project you can cut pieces of old bicycle tires, adhere them onto a wooden stamp or block and stamp polymer clay with it!
This is the coolest idea, thank you Michele Beschen for posting this and to Anke Humpert for posting this in her FB!
http://www.borganic.net/blog/?p=4531

ta daaaam.....

Next weeks' post will finally reveal what the sign on the right means - PPE, Plus freebies and a poll.
Any idea what PPE stands for?
My new website is ready for launch, if you want to be the first to see it (i'd be happy to hear your reviews as well), email me to imishly[at]gmail.com and I will send you the link.
You can also join PolyPediaOnline mailing list to be notified about it.

See u soon!

Polymeri Online 8.2.14 | Earthen polymer spirits, Humpty and Elise clay shoes, Maureen's molds tips and Polymer acrylic faces

This week it's all about faces! (and a winter flower)

Tina's goddess figurines

Tina Raewyn is creating ooak pieces inspired by nature and spirit. She loved all things earthy and her jewellery reflects the female spirit, passionate colourful side, mystery as well as strength and intuitive nature. Tina is using sculpey and sculpey ultra-light that are strong and light weight.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/TRaewyn
https://www.facebook.com/tinaraewyn

polymer clay shoes by Dan

Dan Crowley posted a new pair of shoes in his FB page, "Humpty and Elise". The shoes were made for a collector. He says it was fun trying to figure out how to fit Humpty into a shoe shape.
This Chicago based artist is creating his puppets for years and many of his sculptures are owned by collectors. Aluminium foil and felt are some of the materials he is using.
https://www.facebook.com/DanCrowleyStudio
https://www.etsy.com/shop/DanCrowleyStudio

Maureen's friends and molds

Maureen Carlson with her ever smiling face and pleasant voice, share with us her face mold tricks. She is taking her silicon molds and manipulating them into endless faces and expressions.
I had the pleasure of taking a class with Maureen a couple of years ago at Cabin Fever Clay Festival and it was such a wonderful class.
This 41 minutes video is full of character, don't miss her 2nd video on using her hand molds.
Face molds video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdB9TdwFm44
Hands molds video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQAde4n0kWI

Jordin's faces

Jordin Ispi from Queens, NY is a mix media artist working with polymer clay as well as painting and illustrating. His work appeared in many publications according to his resume and he is influenced by African art, Southeast asian art and Mexican masks. His polymer clay sculpturing were presented worldwide and made of polymer and acrylic paints.
http://jordinisip.com/painting/sculpture/sculp_h1026b_06

Today was such a sunny day that I wore my shorts and went for a walk.
Winter flowers are still around but I'm not sure we'll see much rain in the next months. Summer coming too soon?

Have a great warm weekend!

Polymeri Online 16.9.13 | Winning Mokume-Utensils, Horses-acrylic-polymer Trio, Pressed flower beads tutorial, Shiny vessels and Crazy clown earrings

First batch of September's holidays is over, second is still ahead, so between family gatherings, traditional feasts and other activities I am finding some time for PolymeriOnline posts.

Check out Rebekah Payne's tutorial for antiqued pressed flower beads. Rebekah is using polymer clay and molds to create these beautiful beads, her molds seem to be handmade but I am not 100% sure about that, I think you can create similar molds by using leaves from your back yard and embed them inside Mold maker, silicon base or even scrap clay.
Rebekah was mentioned in PolymeriOnline blog in April 2011, then, with her lovely heart pendant.
The Art Jewelry Elements blog is written by several contributors so you may want to look around to find more treasures.
http://artjewelryelements.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/how-to-two-more-pressed-flower-bead.html
This is a previous version of her beads -
http://artjewelryelements.blogspot.co.il/2013/08/how-to-inside-outside-pressed-flower.html

Caren's TRIO - polymer-horses-acrylic

Caren Goodrich is a lifelong artist. She paints horses in acrylic and also work in metal clay and polymer clay. These beauties are her horses meeting polymer clay, she did these with a very thin, watercolor-like application of acrylic paint and used a coat of liquid polymer as a sealer. According to her this kind of work is much more time consuming than her paper canvas painting....
https://www.facebook.com/caren.goodrich
http://beadbunny.blogspot.co.il/2010/04/painting-meets-polymer.html

Helen's Utensiles

Helen Hughes posted a beautiful set of utensils made of translucent mokume gane stack. She won Polyform's August Make-It-Your-Own contest.
Helen is enjoying her time in sculpturing as well and her Etsy store is all ready for Halloween!
https://www.etsy.com/shop/HelensClayArt?ref=l2-shopheader-name

Beefball Bowls

Beefball Papa's work looks and feels like glass & polymer clay all together.
In her perfect finish she creates a smooth and shiny piece which makes you wonder what these bowls are made of or if she places her canes are on the inside of outside....
Her mixed canes and patterns, looks wonderful.
She is from China, Beijing and I hope we will see more of her art.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37203469@N02/

Crazy Clown earrings by Maddalena

Last is a colorful example of a very easy technique for mixing straps of clay to achieve a happy design.
Maddalena Gianni posted these earrings in her flickr and she calls them "crazy clown" design. She is from Piza Italy (Yay! been there!) and it seems that at the moment millefiori canes are her passion.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maddalena_g/8672184262/

See you soon with more news and posts!

Polymeri Online 23.12.12 | Extrudinary Winners, FREE Polymer Clay Christmas Project and Happy Holidays from Iris Mishly

Dear friends, At this special time of year, I wanted to take a moment to simply say thank you.
Thank you for being a part of my blog and posts the past year, Thank you for your warm support, comments and feedback, Thank you for letting be a part of your artistic journey....
2012 was a year full of adventures and discoveries, I cannot wait to see what 2013 will look like.

Just before the holidays are here, I wanted to announce the 2 "Extrudinary" winners -
Kate S. from U.S.A and Elvira K. from Netherlands, both of you were drawn from all Extrudinary kit purchasers and will receive a special Christmas gift from me, an original Extrudinary jewel! Thank you!

In addition, you are invited to watch my new and fun YouTube video, helping with your last minute holiday and crafting ideas - Christmas theme Pens!
Make yourself and friends a cute Christmas spirit pen!
Press here to view the video -
http://youtu.be/_6jef-RdMOY

Both pens will be sent as Christmas gifts to 2 of PolyPediaOnline mailing list subscribers -
Margarette M. from Australia and Sandra J. from New Zealand! Thank you too Ladies!

Be sure to visit www.polypediaonline.com and hop around to see polymer goodness. I hope the projects and ideas bring a little extra joy to your season.
I am offering a special 15% holiday discount on all tutorials until January 7th, make sure you mention code "NewYear2013" on checkout and a refund will be sent to you on PayPal within 24 hours.

Wishing you peace and joy during the holidays and into the new year.
Best wishes for a happy and healthy 2013!

Polymeri Online 5.10.12 | Eve's duality, Olympic inspired headband, Ceramic and polymer, Bunny ring tutorial

Polymer clay piece
Eve's duality

ClayCatShop posted a polymer clay wall art (I think that is what it is) called "Eve's Duality": an apple, a degree, babies and cell phones? Interesting story here. The piece is made of a painted background, a figure and curls of polymer to decorate it. You can check the process of Eve's Duality's creation here -

http://www.flickr.com/photos/claycatshop/8012723269/in/photostream

ClayCatShop was mentioned on PolymeriOnline about 1 year ago with her lovely pendants, her flickr is full of polymer delights.

http://polymerionline.blogspot.co.il/2011/09/polymeri-online-16911-sculpted-heroes.html

Polymer clay Olympic Headband

Olympics is over but here is a quick project to create your own olympic inspired bronze (gold or silver?) headband by Heidi from HandsOccupied blog. You can purchase silver/gold toned metal headbands to paint in your favorite color or cover with fabric and make your own design with polymer.

http://www.handsoccupied.com/2012/07/how-to-olympics-inspired-bronze-laurel-headband/

Ceramic and polymer

Mareike Scharmer posted vessels which combines ceramic and polymer together. This looks like millefiori canes slices placed on ceramic bases - lovely design.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/m-scharmer/7919807450/

Mareike was mentioned here with her polymer clay toilets (yes!) and bathroom decorations about a year ago as well.

http://polymerionline.blogspot.co.il/2011/10/polymeri-online-41011-grumpy-pumpkin.html

Don't miss her painted car, she has courage, this lady :) Love it!

Polymer clay bunny ring tutorial

17DIY China website posted a cute tutorial for making a bunny ring - No English here but the photos gives a glimpse to the process

http://www.17diy.cn/2011/cute-retro-ring/

Have fun!

Polymeri Online 10.9.12 | Mummy cane giveaway winners, Harry potter bookmarks, Teeth rings, Mini skull toppers and Halloween themed hairclips

Mummy cane winners!

Thank you so much for your lovely feedback and comments, we have 3 winners to the Mummy cane giveaway!
Rebecca, Judy and Eleanor (comments no. 1, 14, 16)
If you did not leave me your email address, please contact me by leaving a comment here or here.

More Halloween themed links -

Harry Potter Polymer
Clay Bookmarks

Libellulina is the creator of these cute Harry Potter bookmarks, Hermione, Harry and Ron, It was created with Fimo and a hand painted on wooden base.
http://libellulina.deviantart.com/art/Bookmarks-Harry-Potter-149936982?q=sort%3Atime+favby%3Alelymarques&qo=3

Teeth Rings!

Another super cute resource for Halloween projects can be found in Pongojam deliantart gallery - giggle charms, teeth rings and other fun projects
http://pongojam.deviantart.com/gallery/26154057

Polymer Clay Mini Cake Topper

Take a look at this mini cake topper - Skull bride and groom in matching colors for Halloween or for other occasions.
Wanessa is the creator behind "iampleasure" and her store theme is "custom made ​​day of the dead cake decorations". Each topper is embellished with clear crystals and glitters.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/105571565/mini-cake-topper-skull-black-and-orange

Polymer Clay Hair Clips - Halloween!

last link for today is these cute hair clips made with felt, cotton fabric and polymer clay embellishments. These hair clips are made by Judy which is making her own buttons and clips for years. Only when her son married and had 2 cute grandchildren she I picked up the pace making buttons for hair clips and clothing.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/104927700/new-halloween-hair-clips-wool-felt

Next week we are back with more polymer clay treasures!

More Halloween FREEBIES!

Don't forget to check out my previous Halloween projects - Scary finger, Eyeball and Spider rings!
http://www.polypediaonline.com/133688/FREE-PolyPediaOnline-Tutorials