Outside Inspiration: Varied Embedding
June 13, 2014
Inspirational Art
Here is an example of a piece found on Pinterest, pinned through Tumblr and without attribution. But luckily, it is also an image taken from the artist’s website so looking up the image on Google images brought up the page of Laurie MacAdam and her mixed stone and metal jewelry, which was quite a find! Although this is mostly metal work, she creates with a wide range of lovely colors both through heat and patina and carefully chosen semi-precious stones bezeled and flat soldered and/or embedded into textured and forged metal.
Most of Laurie’s work could be emulated in polymer and certainly has a lot of elements that could be jumping off points for various elements in your own work. Enjoy a little time on her website looking over her lovely pieces.
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Mixing in Mosaics
March 13, 2014
Inspirational Art
This seems to be the week of mixing it up with polymer as well as intricate pieces. Here we have one of Susan Crocenzi‘s amazing mosaics that includes glass as well as polymer to build up an almost textile feel to this wall piece. The mosaic has a natural rhythm and flow of materials that allows the story to unfold sincerely. As Susan explain it, “Mosaic art offers us the sweet possibility that our own crazy, disjointed life-bits can yield peace, beauty, and meaning.”
This California artist teaches classes at her Grass Valley studio. To view more of her mosaics and learn more about her work, visit her Flickr site. There are more beautiful examples of her mosaics on her Facebook page. “Susan makes mosaics on steroids.” –Carol Herschieb, director of Nevada County Open Studios Tour.
If you like this blog, support The Polymer Arts projects with a subscription or issue of The Polymer Arts magazine as well as supporting our advertising partners.
Here is an example of a piece found on Pinterest, pinned through Tumblr and without attribution. But luckily, it is also an image taken from the artist’s website so looking up the image on Google images brought up the page of Laurie MacAdam and her mixed stone and metal jewelry, which was quite a find! Although this is mostly metal work, she creates with a wide range of lovely colors both through heat and patina and carefully chosen semi-precious stones bezeled and flat soldered and/or embedded into textured and forged metal.
Most of Laurie’s work could be emulated in polymer and certainly has a lot of elements that could be jumping off points for various elements in your own work. Enjoy a little time on her website looking over her lovely pieces.
If you like this blog, support The Polymer Arts projects with a subscription or issue of The Polymer Arts magazine as well as supporting our advertising partners.
This seems to be the week of mixing it up with polymer as well as intricate pieces. Here we have one of Susan Crocenzi‘s amazing mosaics that includes glass as well as polymer to build up an almost textile feel to this wall piece. The mosaic has a natural rhythm and flow of materials that allows the story to unfold sincerely. As Susan explain it, “Mosaic art offers us the sweet possibility that our own crazy, disjointed life-bits can yield peace, beauty, and meaning.”
This California artist teaches classes at her Grass Valley studio. To view more of her mosaics and learn more about her work, visit her Flickr site. There are more beautiful examples of her mosaics on her Facebook page. “Susan makes mosaics on steroids.” –Carol Herschieb, director of Nevada County Open Studios Tour.
If you like this blog, support The Polymer Arts projects with a subscription or issue of The Polymer Arts magazine as well as supporting our advertising partners.
