Beauty in Old Clay
January 31, 2018
Inspirational Art, Technique tutorials
If you haven’t seen this technique, created about a decade ago by France’s Dominique Franceschi, you really have to try it. Like Monday’s post, this too came out of an accident, one many of us have probably experienced to some degree. It was from dry, crumbling clay, once again ruining our expectations. Well, Dominique took that experience and ran with it and what a beautiful texture arose from playing around with this stuff.
Basically, she extruded some older clay and it cracked all up and down the length of it. Instead of tossing it, she wrapped it around base beads, flattened and smoothed the clay, and ended up with these beautiful, organic looking textures. Wonderful stuff.
Her full technique was shared and translated on Parole de Pâte way back in 2006. But just because it’s an older technique doesn’t mean that it can’t be new or newly played with. Try it out and maybe you’ll even have some pleasantly unexpected outcomes by using it slightly differently such as laying it on a sheet to create surface designs that can be made into jewelry or wrapped around boxes. Or what would these cracked snakes look like and how would you use them if you tried just smoothing out the snakes alone? In any case, it would certainly be fun to play with.
Find the simple steps and a couple of options for these beads on Parole de Pâte here.
Sneak Peek at the Spring 2014 issue
March 9, 2014
The Polymer Arts magazine news
Today, we’re covering some public service announcements about the new issue just released. We’ll get back to regularly scheduled art work tomorrow getting into ‘intricate’ design for this coming week. So, here are share-able items, and the timeline for delivery, if you don’t have yours yet, below.
The latest issue of The Polymer Arts is out! Spring 2014–Wrap it Up was challenging to put together but it sure was worth it! Here is a small sampling flipbook of the issue if yours hasn’t arrived yet or you haven’t decided to buy it yet.
If you want to share this fun little flipbook or news about the magazine’s release, you can post this link: http://goo.gl/OkVlyX which goes to the flipbook or copy any of these images and link to www.thepolymerarts.com so people know where to get their own copy.
Your Copy of Spring 2014:
- Digital issues were released on Friday the 7th so if you expected a digital access email but haven’t seen one yet, check your spam/junk mail folder for it and if it’s not there, write us at connect@thepolymerarts.com. Don’t forget to add connect@thepolymerarts.com to your safe sender list and/or address book to help keep emails from being filtered to junk mail.
- Print issues started mailing out on Wednesday from Idaho. They can take up to 3 weeks to get some areas in the East, South and overseas but they are all on their way.
- If you don’t buy a copy of this issue yet, you can get your copy at our website or through one of our online retailers listed on that page as well.
Thank you all for your many kind and enthusiastic words about this issue you’ve sent my way the last couple days! And thank you ever so much for sharing the issue on your Facebook page, Pinterest and other online sites. It is very heart-warming to see how thrilled you all are about this issue. It is pretty amazing just how many people got involved in the content, contributing their thoughts, art work and talent into making this one very packed issue! Thanks to you all!
If you haven’t seen this technique, created about a decade ago by France’s Dominique Franceschi, you really have to try it. Like Monday’s post, this too came out of an accident, one many of us have probably experienced to some degree. It was from dry, crumbling clay, once again ruining our expectations. Well, Dominique took that experience and ran with it and what a beautiful texture arose from playing around with this stuff.
Basically, she extruded some older clay and it cracked all up and down the length of it. Instead of tossing it, she wrapped it around base beads, flattened and smoothed the clay, and ended up with these beautiful, organic looking textures. Wonderful stuff.
Her full technique was shared and translated on Parole de Pâte way back in 2006. But just because it’s an older technique doesn’t mean that it can’t be new or newly played with. Try it out and maybe you’ll even have some pleasantly unexpected outcomes by using it slightly differently such as laying it on a sheet to create surface designs that can be made into jewelry or wrapped around boxes. Or what would these cracked snakes look like and how would you use them if you tried just smoothing out the snakes alone? In any case, it would certainly be fun to play with.
Find the simple steps and a couple of options for these beads on Parole de Pâte here.
Read MoreToday, we’re covering some public service announcements about the new issue just released. We’ll get back to regularly scheduled art work tomorrow getting into ‘intricate’ design for this coming week. So, here are share-able items, and the timeline for delivery, if you don’t have yours yet, below.
The latest issue of The Polymer Arts is out! Spring 2014–Wrap it Up was challenging to put together but it sure was worth it! Here is a small sampling flipbook of the issue if yours hasn’t arrived yet or you haven’t decided to buy it yet.
If you want to share this fun little flipbook or news about the magazine’s release, you can post this link: http://goo.gl/OkVlyX which goes to the flipbook or copy any of these images and link to www.thepolymerarts.com so people know where to get their own copy.
Your Copy of Spring 2014:
- Digital issues were released on Friday the 7th so if you expected a digital access email but haven’t seen one yet, check your spam/junk mail folder for it and if it’s not there, write us at connect@thepolymerarts.com. Don’t forget to add connect@thepolymerarts.com to your safe sender list and/or address book to help keep emails from being filtered to junk mail.
- Print issues started mailing out on Wednesday from Idaho. They can take up to 3 weeks to get some areas in the East, South and overseas but they are all on their way.
- If you don’t buy a copy of this issue yet, you can get your copy at our website or through one of our online retailers listed on that page as well.
Thank you all for your many kind and enthusiastic words about this issue you’ve sent my way the last couple days! And thank you ever so much for sharing the issue on your Facebook page, Pinterest and other online sites. It is very heart-warming to see how thrilled you all are about this issue. It is pretty amazing just how many people got involved in the content, contributing their thoughts, art work and talent into making this one very packed issue! Thanks to you all!
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