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 Its a brand new year, holding lots of promise of work to do and share; and I’m looking forward to finishing many of my projects that have been in the works for a while and to starting new ones as well.
I’ll be making new dolls, necklaces, and wall art with the ceramic and metal faces and hands that I’ve been working on and the beads I’ve collected. I have lots of Spirit Doll Kit samples to put together as well as dolls to make from the “ground up” in the case of the ceramic ones, and from fabrics that I’ve dyed or collected for doll making purposes. Now’s the time to use them!
Shown here are some beads that I first thought would be a necklace, but now I have an idea for ceramic sculptures that have beads and metal, and I think this face might become part of that. I am blessed to have lots of ideas and lots of stuff that can be useful in realizing them. I have enough beads, bits of glass and metal and boxes of fabric scraps that some of my friends have mentioned watching those shows about the hoarders… but as long as I’m perfectly willing to use things up and make them into art, I will continue to see myself as “creatively connected” and “art-supply-prepared” and not in need of intervention. Yet.
In this upcoming year, I will document and share pics and some tutorials on the projects as I proceed. I love my new camera, and the best way to get used to it is to take lots of pictures, so I will–do check back soon and see what’s new.
I’m enjoying my Metal/Jewelry III class quite a bit and improving my skills at sawing, shaping and soldering. Slowly I get more practice and improve!
This project involved stone cutting as well, and let me tell you –petrified wood is HARD and tough to drill! I used bronze and copper to shape flowers, [...]
Whew! In putting up the slide show of the miniature polymer clay masks from the 2011 annual swap, I realized that it keeps getting bigger and bigger…and I still have a dozen images to ad, plus names to attach to the images.
So I made a page just for the mini-masks.
There were [...]
Previously I posted about the two millefiore face canes that I just made using Kato polyclay.
I spent a couple of days playing “dress up” to create Victorian style ladies, dancehall girls and some honkytonk angels (as well as miniature masks for the upcoming swap and more lentil beads–its been a [...]
I’m in polymer clay mode this May, making lots of new beads and pins and faces–both in cabochon form and canes. I’ve made face canes before, but only using Fimo and Premo brands of polymer clay.
Here’s a picture of some of the ones I’ve made throughout the years.
I dress them up [...]
During the fall, winter and spring months, I get to stay warm and toasty at school–having the ceramics kilns running and getting up over 1800 degrees insures that the art room stays cozy many days!
Now that the spring semester at school is over, I’ve brought my load of goodies home and taken [...]
Learn how to tie dye! Bring your own pre-washed cotton t-shirts or other natural fiber clothing. Or dye fabric; just make sure it is made of natural fiber content and washed once to remove any sizing or starch. We supply the backyard and the wading pools, the dyes, synthrapol and soda ash, gloves, [...]
I’ve put together the lineup of classes that I will be offering through Front Range Community College’s Continuing Education department.
Located at the Boulder County Campus in Longmont, Colorado, these personal enrichment classes are fun, fast and finance-friendly; you could pay a lot more and get a lot less elsewhere! The classrooms at [...]
I do love being in the art class rooms at Front Range Community College, whether it is as a student or as an instructor. I always learn a lot either way, and have a great time doing it. The rooms there are warm in winter and cool in summer, big, well [...]
You may have noticed that I’m moving things around at The Polyclay Gallery. When I first began building it back in the dark ages, I only knew a bit of html. Then I learned about CSS and PHP and all the wonderful things they make possible to do to/with a website. I’ve been [...]
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