by polyarts | Sep 16, 2015 | adobe, art, classes, creativity, dolls, faces, polymer clay, projects, tutorials, video
The Polymer Clay Adventure is a fabulous year-long online retreat with 22 instructors created and hosted by Ilysa Ginsburg & Kira Slye. I’m happy to be on board, and my tutorial debuts this weekend. In 10 half hour video segments, I show start to finish...
by polyarts | Jul 20, 2015 | art, beads, classes, crafts, creativity
We’re getting ready to travel to Ohio and see family and friends as well as do some art and music. I’ve got three classes (etching metal bracelets, patina on metal and kumihimo) lined up at Gahanna Bead Studio at 1082 N. Hamilton Rd. Gahanna, Ohio. I grew...
by polyarts | Jul 14, 2015 | art, creativity, tie dye
We didn’t do the usual Springtime Dyeing Days marathon with shibori and tiedyed textiles and clothing. I have plenty of both for the moment, and have been working on overpainting, adding metallic accents, and taking the textiles I have already dyed to the next...
by polyarts | May 20, 2015 | art, crafts, creativity, dolls, polymer clay, what's new
Its been an incredibly busy Spring so far, and very productive. I’ve been working on websites for others like the Lyons Film Festival, Red Canyon Art, Angel Readings by Kelly, and updated my own websites page because of the new additions. (Need a website? I love...
by polyarts | Mar 31, 2015 | art, beads, eggs, faces, flowers, home decor, polymer clay
I do enjoy decorating eggs with polymer clay. These blooming beauties were first blown free of their egg-y contents, then coated with several cured coats of liquid polymer clay.I drew the faces with a Micron permanent ink pen, colored them with acrylic paints and...
by polyarts | Mar 29, 2015 | adobe, art, classes, creativity
I thought I’d lost the files from my Illustrator classes that I took at Front Range Community College, but I found quite a few and that includes the one with the brushes I created that allow me to “draw” lace onto lines. It may sound simple, but they...
