The ‘Elements’ in store for Fall 2015
August 3, 2015
Inspirational Art, The Polymer Arts magazine news
As promised … here is the new cover for the Fall 2015 issue due out later this month. Our cover is graced by the soulful work of Ronna Sarvas Weltman who wrote a beautifully honest and heartfelt piece on the whys and hows of teaching art that you won’t want to miss. Among other things!
The Elements theme is all about bringing together the many parts that go into creating in order to make amazing finished pieces of art! Here are some of the inspirational and skill-building articles you can look forward to if you subscribe or pre-order:
- Embellish! The Art of the Accent with Christi Friesen
- Elements of Inspiration: Where Ideas Come From
- It’s a Small World: Micro Mosaics with Karen Mitchell
- Transfer Anything! Easy & Artful Image Transfers
- The Joyous Classroom with Ronna Sarvas Weltman
- Creating Atmosphere: The Elements of Mood
- Strange Beauty: The Art of Celine Charuau
- Alternate Avenues of Artistic Income
- Properly Equipped: Indispensable & Inexpensive Photo Accessories
- The Right Adhesive for the Job
- Fun with Pebeo Paints
- Creative Ear Wires
- … and much more
If you have not pre-ordered your copy or updated your subscription, you will want to do that now to get it hot off the presses! Head over to our website here!
And a HUGE thank you to everyone who took part in the survey. This really helps us to gear our offerings towards what YOU want to read, and this makes ALL of us very happy. Tomorrow, I will pull names for the giveaway and let the lucky ducks know by email, so I can get those physical mailing addresses from you. I’ll also announce it on Wednesday, so you’ll know if you’ve won even if the email gremlins run off with my congratulatory emails as they sometimes like to do.
So, forgive me for all the TPA news, but I need to run off and craft more good stuff for you. We will resume digging up and talking about more admirable polymer pretties on Wednesday!
If you like this blog, support The Polymer Arts projects with a subscription or an issue of The Polymer Arts magazine, as well as by supporting our advertising partners.
Frightening Elegance
October 28, 2014
Inspirational Art
I love spiders. Not very girly of me, I know, but I just find them to be some of the most fascinating creatures on earth. They are beautiful and graceful fellow crafters who just happen to be so absolutely terrifying at times. Poor, misunderstood things.
Regardless of the terrifying moments, spiders really can be fantastic inspiration, not just from the patterns they weave, but their own inherent elegance–the long, slim legs, the way they delicately hang and negotiate their webs, the graceful way they reach out and weave their silk. Well, that last may remind you too much of dinner time in the web, but nonetheless, the spider’s structure and movements are beautiful.
I imagine this is what drew Céline Charuau to create work like the piece you see here. She calls this Fleur Araignée or Flower Spider in English. And with that title, she has drawn a simple equation between what is considered one of nature’s most beautiful creations with one of its most frightening. If you think about it, there are also deadly flowers and harmless, but gorgeously colored, arachnids. For being such completely different types of organisms, they actually have a lot in common.
The drawing of equations between seemingly unrelated things is nothing new in Céline’s work. Man-made with organic, mineral with animal, hard with soft, and lots of other unexpected combinations in her images and titles like Embroidered Eggs and Canned Chromosomes. I honestly am not sure if I enjoy the titles of her work or her craftsmanship more. See what I mean by taking a leisurely jaunt through her Flickr photostream with more insight to be found on her blog, Gris Bleu.
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.
As promised … here is the new cover for the Fall 2015 issue due out later this month. Our cover is graced by the soulful work of Ronna Sarvas Weltman who wrote a beautifully honest and heartfelt piece on the whys and hows of teaching art that you won’t want to miss. Among other things!
The Elements theme is all about bringing together the many parts that go into creating in order to make amazing finished pieces of art! Here are some of the inspirational and skill-building articles you can look forward to if you subscribe or pre-order:
- Embellish! The Art of the Accent with Christi Friesen
- Elements of Inspiration: Where Ideas Come From
- It’s a Small World: Micro Mosaics with Karen Mitchell
- Transfer Anything! Easy & Artful Image Transfers
- The Joyous Classroom with Ronna Sarvas Weltman
- Creating Atmosphere: The Elements of Mood
- Strange Beauty: The Art of Celine Charuau
- Alternate Avenues of Artistic Income
- Properly Equipped: Indispensable & Inexpensive Photo Accessories
- The Right Adhesive for the Job
- Fun with Pebeo Paints
- Creative Ear Wires
- … and much more
If you have not pre-ordered your copy or updated your subscription, you will want to do that now to get it hot off the presses! Head over to our website here!
And a HUGE thank you to everyone who took part in the survey. This really helps us to gear our offerings towards what YOU want to read, and this makes ALL of us very happy. Tomorrow, I will pull names for the giveaway and let the lucky ducks know by email, so I can get those physical mailing addresses from you. I’ll also announce it on Wednesday, so you’ll know if you’ve won even if the email gremlins run off with my congratulatory emails as they sometimes like to do.
So, forgive me for all the TPA news, but I need to run off and craft more good stuff for you. We will resume digging up and talking about more admirable polymer pretties on Wednesday!
If you like this blog, support The Polymer Arts projects with a subscription or an issue of The Polymer Arts magazine, as well as by supporting our advertising partners.
I love spiders. Not very girly of me, I know, but I just find them to be some of the most fascinating creatures on earth. They are beautiful and graceful fellow crafters who just happen to be so absolutely terrifying at times. Poor, misunderstood things.
Regardless of the terrifying moments, spiders really can be fantastic inspiration, not just from the patterns they weave, but their own inherent elegance–the long, slim legs, the way they delicately hang and negotiate their webs, the graceful way they reach out and weave their silk. Well, that last may remind you too much of dinner time in the web, but nonetheless, the spider’s structure and movements are beautiful.
I imagine this is what drew Céline Charuau to create work like the piece you see here. She calls this Fleur Araignée or Flower Spider in English. And with that title, she has drawn a simple equation between what is considered one of nature’s most beautiful creations with one of its most frightening. If you think about it, there are also deadly flowers and harmless, but gorgeously colored, arachnids. For being such completely different types of organisms, they actually have a lot in common.
The drawing of equations between seemingly unrelated things is nothing new in Céline’s work. Man-made with organic, mineral with animal, hard with soft, and lots of other unexpected combinations in her images and titles like Embroidered Eggs and Canned Chromosomes. I honestly am not sure if I enjoy the titles of her work or her craftsmanship more. See what I mean by taking a leisurely jaunt through her Flickr photostream with more insight to be found on her blog, Gris Bleu.
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.
