Polymer Art

Making lists

Mechelle — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:47:51 +0000

It must be list time Once again I find myself making lists of things I want to attempt. Some of them are ideas inspired by other artists, others are notions that just popped into my head at some time recently. The list includes: Lacy “vessels” using wet toilet paper as a form ala Christi Friesen [...]

Oven temperature control

Mechelle — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:49:01 +0000

Oven thermometers I don’t have any photos to go with this post yet, but I intend to come back and add some later. I saw a tweet from @PolymerClayTips about using an oven thermometer that made me think about what I do for one. All of the polymer clay books and also the artists will tell you to use an [...]

The evoution of a pendant (part 3)

Mechelle — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:50:32 +0000

Here are a few shots of the pendant before the dragon got it’s final ornamentation. The disc that it is curling around is a polymer clay cabochon that I made. It is coated with some of my dichroic powders and then sealed with Kato liquid clay to give it the glassy shine. Because the substrate was [...]

The evolution of a pendant (part 2)

Mechelle — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:56:46 +0000

The Colors Once I got the idea down on paper it was time to start working with the clay. I grabbed colors I wanted to work with plus some random chunks out of my scrap pile for variety and started mixing. Here is what I came up with. I had envisioned the pendant in mostly [...]

The evolution of a pendant (part 1)

Mechelle — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:58:27 +0000

The Idea It all starts with and idea. I have a sketchbook in which I try to note down the ideas I get for different projects. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. This time I got an idea that I could actually sketch out. (This picture is clickable so you can get a better view [...]