Extended Diversity
March 9, 2015
Inspirational Art
The newest issue of The Polymer Arts has been out for about a week and has been selling like mad. It is really a full issue. And, we had to cut down or save a lot of the material for later because the contributors for this issue sent us so much good stuff! So this week, I’ll share some of what we couldn’t get in.
Julie Cleveland’s article, “Rules of Resin” could have been a book for all the information there is out there on the subject. However, we choose to go into the basics, but in depth, so any of you could confidently and successfully work with resin and combine it with your polymer. A number of artists with extensive resin experience shared their work with us to include in the article, but we hardly had room for everything we wanted to share with our readers. Sherri Kellberg was one such contributor. She creates beautiful, shimmering pieces often finished with a resin coating. Recently, she played with a dichroic glass look in polymer and got some stunning results. Some of that work is in the resin article, but here is another piece that looks almost unreal in its shimmer and color. The resin acts like a magnifying glass that amplifies the colors and makes the surface texture look more three dimensional. It’s just one of many small advantages to using resin as a polymer finishing material.
You can see more of Sherri’s work in her recent collection of dichoric look polymer on her blog and more of her shimmering resin and polymer work on her Etsy pages.
If you like this blog, support The Polymer Arts projects with a subscription or an issue of The Polymer Arts magazine as well as supporting our advertising partners.
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Innate Symmetry
March 1, 2014
Inspirational Art
We couldn’t have a proper week on symmetry without two things … earrings and kaleidoscope canes. So who better to demonstrate both than Sandra McCaw. If you look at this pair of earrings as a cohesive whole, instead of two individual pieces in a set, they are a perfect example of mirror image symmetry. Her creative style encompasses precision and exactness, as witnessed in these masterful canes using color and intricacy of pattern to form her McCaw Cane. She adds richness and texture to her pieces with the application of 23K gold leaf.
For those of you who are not familiar with Sandra, she developed a caning process that bears her name, the McCaw Cane. It involves mixing several gradations of two or three colors, rolling them into sheets and stacking them into blocks. Each block is then cut in the same way and the pieces swapped to create simple multi-colored patterns. These blocks are then reduced and divided to make increasingly complex patterns. If you would like to learn this technique step-by-step, grab a copy of her DVD, “Innovations: A Polymer Clay Series” or take a peek at the book, “The Art of Jewelry: Polymer Clay – Techniques, Projects, Inspiration.”
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.
The newest issue of The Polymer Arts has been out for about a week and has been selling like mad. It is really a full issue. And, we had to cut down or save a lot of the material for later because the contributors for this issue sent us so much good stuff! So this week, I’ll share some of what we couldn’t get in.
Julie Cleveland’s article, “Rules of Resin” could have been a book for all the information there is out there on the subject. However, we choose to go into the basics, but in depth, so any of you could confidently and successfully work with resin and combine it with your polymer. A number of artists with extensive resin experience shared their work with us to include in the article, but we hardly had room for everything we wanted to share with our readers. Sherri Kellberg was one such contributor. She creates beautiful, shimmering pieces often finished with a resin coating. Recently, she played with a dichroic glass look in polymer and got some stunning results. Some of that work is in the resin article, but here is another piece that looks almost unreal in its shimmer and color. The resin acts like a magnifying glass that amplifies the colors and makes the surface texture look more three dimensional. It’s just one of many small advantages to using resin as a polymer finishing material.
You can see more of Sherri’s work in her recent collection of dichoric look polymer on her blog and more of her shimmering resin and polymer work on her Etsy pages.
If you like this blog, support The Polymer Arts projects with a subscription or an issue of The Polymer Arts magazine as well as supporting our advertising partners.
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We couldn’t have a proper week on symmetry without two things … earrings and kaleidoscope canes. So who better to demonstrate both than Sandra McCaw. If you look at this pair of earrings as a cohesive whole, instead of two individual pieces in a set, they are a perfect example of mirror image symmetry. Her creative style encompasses precision and exactness, as witnessed in these masterful canes using color and intricacy of pattern to form her McCaw Cane. She adds richness and texture to her pieces with the application of 23K gold leaf.
For those of you who are not familiar with Sandra, she developed a caning process that bears her name, the McCaw Cane. It involves mixing several gradations of two or three colors, rolling them into sheets and stacking them into blocks. Each block is then cut in the same way and the pieces swapped to create simple multi-colored patterns. These blocks are then reduced and divided to make increasingly complex patterns. If you would like to learn this technique step-by-step, grab a copy of her DVD, “Innovations: A Polymer Clay Series” or take a peek at the book, “The Art of Jewelry: Polymer Clay – Techniques, Projects, Inspiration.”
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.
