Art & Health

What are your goals for this New Year? Improve your skills as an artist? How about improve your health? How about doing them both together?

I think we can all agree that good health certainly helps us in creating art. It’s hard to create when we don’t feel good. So, our friends over at Crafty Link (same gals that run Polymer Clay Productions) decided to help artists get healthier. They have a 12 week course titled The Art of Healthy Living that is “designed to teach real-world, healthy lifestyle choices while using art as a means to work through the thoughts and emotions that accompany weight loss.” Sounds rather intriguing.

I do have a few holiday pounds to lose myself. I am also working on reducing stress and having more time to laugh …

happy-good-for-my-health-voltaire

I had to share this image … it has fractals on it! I’m a bit nutty about fractals. They are all around us in nature but can also be created using math. Crazy pretty stuff.

 

 

Silk Screening Anyone?

Have you been curious about what it would take to try out silk screening on polymer? I can tell you the whole process is relatively simple. You need a few specialty supplies (but who doesn’t like having to get a few new supplies!) and a little practice. Once you get it down it can be quite addictive.

Here are few pins by Karen Woods with lots of silk screening textures to intrigue you.

If you want to look into it further, Polymer Clay Express has both a tutorial posted as well as supplies to get you started.

And our friends over at Polymer Clay Productions have a great video on polymer silk screening with lots of good tips to get you started: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJZ8ec8NAko

Art & Health

January 6, 2013
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What are your goals for this New Year? Improve your skills as an artist? How about improve your health? How about doing them both together?

I think we can all agree that good health certainly helps us in creating art. It’s hard to create when we don’t feel good. So, our friends over at Crafty Link (same gals that run Polymer Clay Productions) decided to help artists get healthier. They have a 12 week course titled The Art of Healthy Living that is “designed to teach real-world, healthy lifestyle choices while using art as a means to work through the thoughts and emotions that accompany weight loss.” Sounds rather intriguing.

I do have a few holiday pounds to lose myself. I am also working on reducing stress and having more time to laugh …

happy-good-for-my-health-voltaire

I had to share this image … it has fractals on it! I’m a bit nutty about fractals. They are all around us in nature but can also be created using math. Crazy pretty stuff.

 

 

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Silk Screening Anyone?

July 17, 2012
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Have you been curious about what it would take to try out silk screening on polymer? I can tell you the whole process is relatively simple. You need a few specialty supplies (but who doesn’t like having to get a few new supplies!) and a little practice. Once you get it down it can be quite addictive.

Here are few pins by Karen Woods with lots of silk screening textures to intrigue you.

If you want to look into it further, Polymer Clay Express has both a tutorial posted as well as supplies to get you started.

And our friends over at Polymer Clay Productions have a great video on polymer silk screening with lots of good tips to get you started: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJZ8ec8NAko

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