Creative Connections

Creative Connections

All Dolled Up In 2012

ceramic face and beads

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 [...]

Dress Up Fun Faces

polymer clay ladies

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 [...]

Hot Fun!

raku-spring2011

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

Tie Dye Shirt

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

polymer clay millefiore canes

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

millefiore canes in polymer clay

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, [...]

A Glass Clay Play Day

flat and molded glass clay (unfired)

Actually, it was two play days! I had a lot of fun when my friend Mad Margie invited a few of us over to her Meltorium for a little fun with frit.

We haven’t gotten to the hot fusing part yet; glass is not a fast medium and there are lots of steps, but [...]

Cabin Fever

Making Faces, Molds & Forms

The winter is barely started, but Cabin Fever is coming right up! Cabin Fever Clay Fest, that is–February 18-23,  2011 in Laurel MD. This fourth annual celebration of polymer clay has a fantastic line up of instructors including:

Christi Friesen Cindy Silas Doreen Kassel Ellen Marshall Grant Diffendaffer Jeffrey Lloyd Dever Judith Skinner Julie [...]

The Sun And The Moon

Helen Hughes-polymer clay sun moon mask

It’s still feeling very summery here at 95 degrees this August day…but at night there’s a hint in the air that Autumn is coming. And it’s here right now in this picture!

Pictures, pictures,  all day long…I edited them all morning, and finished 35 pictures, and then took 50 more. I reshot 2 [...]

Masks & More Masks

Frida polymer clay mask by Suzanne Ivester

School starts up again for me at Front Range Community College in just two weeks, so I am pushing hard to get photographs taken and edited for my upcoming book “A Collection Of Polymer Clay Masks”. I expect there will be somewhere between 400 and 500 mask images once I get them all done. [...]