by polyarts | Jun 25, 2018 | art, color, crafts, creativity, dolls, faces, polymer clay, textiles
It is officially summertime again, and my sweetie and I have celebrated another anniversery and we are another year older…still loving each other and our family, art and music. Still in love with the wide open Wyoming countryside after a year here. We just moved...
by polyarts | Jan 15, 2018 | art, color, crafts, creativity, what's new, wood. laser cut
One of the treats I gave myself during the changeover months of the end of 2017 and the start of the 2018 was to put together a new batch of designs to make on the laser cutter at Tinkermill, the makerspace in Longmont CO. I came up with almost 100, narrowed it to my...
by polyarts | Aug 22, 2017 | art, color, metal
We’re having a great time creating new art, music, and writing here in Wyoming. I have both indoor and outdoor work spaces. The light is great (got a little dark during the eclipse, but that was only a minute or two!) and I’ve been having a grand time...
by polyarts | Jul 27, 2017 | art, color
We’ve traded in the growing expenses and rapidly enlarging census of Colorado for a new way of doing things with a home, home on the range in Wyoming. I loved a lot about CO in the two decades we spent there, and my sons, husband and l all got a good solid dose...
by polyarts | Apr 23, 2017 | art, color, crafts, creativity, wood. laser cut
I love computer design programs and the computer-driven tools like the laser cutter. But when it comes right down to it, I’m a visual-tactile learner. I need to see the real thing, not just an image on the computer screen. For one thing, my ability to tell what...
by polyarts | Jan 15, 2017 | art, crafts, creativity, dolls, faces, wood. laser cut
These wooden ladies make quite a crowd! I’ve been using the 80 watt laser cutter at Tinkermill to cut charms that can be made into keychains, earrings, pendants, or spirit dolls. I started with my own ink drawings and brought them into a free CAD program called...