Earrings are everywhere! If you look at jewelry you are bound to see earrings. And there is a good reason for that. The shapes and styles earrings come in are literally endless. Even if you would restrict yourself to only one basic shape, there still would be a huge number of variations you could make.… Continue reading Why I Love Earrings
What is scrap clay anyway? On social media you can not help but notice that there are a lot people wondering about what to do with scrap clay and asking for new ideas for what to do with it. Since this is a topic of interest I would like to get a bit deeper into… Continue reading Transforming Your Scraps Into Pieces That You Love
“Mixed media is a term used to describe art works composed from a combination of different media or materials.” the “tate”,London, UK, states on their website (https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/m/mixed-media ). Polymer clay is the main medium in our work and it is extremely versatile. If you use it in combination with another media, let´s say metal (as… Continue reading Tips and Tricks for Mixed Media
Looking for inspiration we often find ourselves on social media. We often find beautiful pictures, quotes and inspirational words. They are meant to inspire or help spark a new idea. One of the topics, I often see, is based around the idea that we do have a comfort zone. And often we are encouraged to… Continue reading Breaking Out of Your Comfort Zone
After having my script ready and knowing all my guidelines, it´s time to get the set up for the recording and test it. With the devices we all have today, we already have the basic equipment. But basic might not be what you want or enough for what you have planned. Then you need to… Continue reading Preparing to Teach an Online Class for Artists – Pt 2
Last year there have been lots of challenges for everyone, one of them being that artists could not attend live events or workshops on a regular base anymore. In some cases it was and still is not possible at all. Many were trying to find out what, they could do instead. New ideas and concepts… Continue reading Preparing to Teach an Online Class for Artists – Pt 1
Today I would like to tell you a little bit about my new clay love: Liquid Sculpey®! It does work a bit different then regular polymer clay and you need to get used to the different way of working with it at first. So, to make it easier for you I thought I share a… Continue reading Using Liquid Sculpey® – #HowDoYouSculpey (part2)
When I was asked what I like best about Sculpey and especially how I use it, at first I did not know what to say. Honestly the answer is not that easy! Thinking about what I use polymer clay for, and specifically Sculpey, I can not give you a straight forward answer. I am not… Continue reading #HowDoYouSculpey-What I Like Most About Sculpey and How I Work With It
By: Anke Humpert My favorite technique in polymer clay is a very simple one. I learned it from Donna Kato and I have used it ever since. It´s easy to make but very versatile. And you don’t need a lot of tools: You need at least two colors of clay, but you can use more… Continue reading My Favorite Technique to do using Polymer Clay
Liquid Sculpey bakeable medium is one of the newest products from Polyform and more than once I heard the question: “What can you do with it?” Well sometimes it is kind of hard to answer that just using words. So I thought I would share some of my experiments with you and point you to… Continue reading Liquid Sculpey – What can I do with it?
by Anke Humpert “People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and its ends, but to me it’s quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spat blues. Murky darknesses. In… Continue reading What’s Your Favorite Color?
A Workshop with Kathleen Dustin My home guild, the German Polymer Clay Guild polyclaykunst.de had arranged a workshop with Kathleen Dustin (April 24th – 26th, 2015). This workshop was one I have been looking forward to for a long time! I had meet Kathleen on two occasions earlier, but I had never taken a… Continue reading A Workshop with Kathleen Dustin
Creating in patriotic colors is always so much fun for Memorial Day in the late spring, the Fourth of July in mid-summer and then Veterans Day in the fall. These adorable little patriotic flowers are fabulous to create an use in variety of fun ways. To get started, you are going to need Sculpey III… Continue reading Create Patriotic Clay Flowers – Sculpey®
No matter if working with polymer clay is your hobby, your creative outlet or it is your art form, we are all not inspired at times. We feel we are doing the same old same old again and again and just have no ideas at one point. It happens to everyone. The point is: not… Continue reading What I Like To Do To Stay Creative
Just recently I got some new ChameleonTM Pens. I had seen Syndee Holt using them on polymer clay and so I was really exited and looking forward to use them myself and I would like to tell you a little bit about my first tests with theses pens! The ChameleonTM Pens are permanent alcohol ink… Continue reading Testing Chameleon Pens and Polymer Clay
