Sarajane's Polyclay Gallery

All Dolled Up In 2012

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:15:52 +0000

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 [...]

Petal To The Metal

admin — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:58:56 +0000

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, leaves, [...]

Miniature Mask Swap 2011

admin — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:33:23 +0000

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 33 [...]

Dress Up Fun Faces

admin — Fri, 20 May 2011 01:08:00 +0000

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 very [...]

New Faces For Spring

admin — Tue, 17 May 2011 18:06:25 +0000

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 using [...]

Hot Fun!

admin — Thu, 05 May 2011 22:09:31 +0000

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 a [...]

Tie Dye Class

admin — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 02:25:52 +0000

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, rubber [...]

Summer Arts Classes at FRCC

admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:50:47 +0000

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 FRCC [...]

Upcoming Polymer Clay Classes

admin — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:03:06 +0000

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 lit, [...]

Movement Is Good

Sarajane — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:26:54 +0000

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 practicing [...]