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!

Animal Farm, A peek behind the curtain

It's been a while that i was waiting for an opportunity to create my own animal collection of charms, ever since i saw felt and fabric folks do it, I wanted to make some from polymer clay.

A week ago I got a phone call from a lady, she is a director in one of the collages here in Israel, theater department. The lady asked me if I can create animal keychains, she said that they are doing a play called "Animal Farm" based on a novel by George Orwell, each actor will receive a special gift at the "finale'" of the play featuring his own character.
What a great idea!
Exactly what I was waiting for.

I made about 25 charms, some not even in the play (penguin? polar bear?)

I had so much fun creating them I couldn't stop :)

You can see how 4 of them were made in 2 videos - The pig, the sheep, the horse and the chicken.
It's really all about working with cookie cutters and creating a flat, 2D design, playing with colors, shapes and having fun.

Let the show begin!

Part 1 - Pig and sheep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ9AfsMZy_w&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

Part 2 - Chicken and horse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anBSGS034cc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Millefiori canes again

Del Moro is a russian artist who has some amazing canes i have ever seen, take a look at his "fire horse" cane, and some more which are stunning! some various techniques can be seen in his jewelry.

http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/wrb/view/42448
http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/wrb/album/5958/ (6 pages)
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/42/wrb.6/0_1d4d6_d0a7dcd1_orig (cane tutorial)

Polymeri Online 2.8.07

Unique One of a Kind Horse Sculptures by Mary Weldy
Mary Weldy has been in-love with horses as far back as she can remember. When her family moved to Southern California, the dream of owning her own horse became reality. Her work has exhibited throughout the Southwest and has won her awards on both the national and local levels. Her gallery contains all kind of art work - take a look.
http://www.maryweldyoriginals.com/sculpture.html

Forest Rogers - Beautiful Unicorn & fairies sculpturing -
http://forestrogers.typepad.com/

Vivy just love English Bulldogs!! she makes English Bulldog Gifts & figurines, Greeting Cards, Pictures, Books and more!
http://www.vivyland.com/
http://www.vivyland.com/figurines.html
http://www.vivyland.com/english-bulldog-gifts.html

Trimble Court Artisans - Nancy Osbahr
Trimble Court Artisans thrives with more than 50 artists and craftspeople regularly consigning their work to the shop, The shop contains a rainbow array of pottery, paintings, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and wooden items.One of the artists, Nancy Osbahr says "I have always loved working with my hands so when I discovered polymer clay over 8 years ago, I knew I had found the magical medium that would hold my creative attention for a long time." read more at her page
http://www.trimblecourt.com/n_osbahr/n_osbahr.htm

Folk artist Patty Torres' folk art acrylic paintings on saltillo tiles and fanciful polymer clay sculptures.
http://www.pattytorres.com/

Terry Nell Morris is an artist, sculptor, she draws and made her art from paper clay and fabric with poly-fill. her MAD HATTER from "Alice in Wonderland" are amazing work of art.
http://www.terry-1.com/
http://www.terry-1.com/Mad_Hatter.htm

Greeting Cards decorated with polymer clay Celtic embellishments by E. I. Elsey's Workshop blog
http://vintagepaintworks.typepad.com/e_i_elseys_workshop/2007/02/celtic_cards.html

Rita Bellnad is a learner,a home baker, a full time mum of 6 and 4yo girls from Melbourne Australia, and she makes sweet miniature food from polymer clay :) She always loved miniatures, as well as the dollhouse and started making miniature food out of Fimo, and here's the site where she keep stories of them.
is it lunch time now? I'm hungry all of a sudden.
http://me-mini.blogspot.com/http://www.flickr.com/photos/vaybellnad/