by polyarts | Mar 10, 2017 | beads, classes, creativity, flowers, projects
Doesn’t everybody need at least one crown? I think I’d like a whole shelf of them, so as to choose what I’d like to be for the day. Princess, Faery, Empress, Beauty Queen? Ruler of the Quantiversal Realms, perhaps… There is an old quote about...
by polyarts | Mar 6, 2016 | flowers, Illustrator, metal
I’m learning to use new software and new tools along with those honed for a while now, and the new crop this year includes Inkscape design software that is a lot like Illustrator but lots of CAD stuff in there I’m not familiar with yet.Combined with the...
by polyarts | Jan 13, 2016 | classes, creativity, flowers, how-to, what's new
I’ve often referred to myself as a mad scientist with art supplies, and that certainly is true lately. For several years now I’ve been doing a series of experiments with color on metal using alcohol inks, chemical patinas, heat, and more. Now I’m...
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 | Dec 28, 2014 | creativity, flowers, metal, polymer clay, textiles
Most of the artists I know have projects that are awaiting their attention while they work on one thing or another. I have lots of them myself, and I cycle around in what I’m working on at any given time; web updates, polymer clay, writing or laying out books,...
by polyarts | May 2, 2013 | flowers, metal
We still have a few inches of snow on the ground here at the 2nd of May, but flowers are starting to pop up inside–metal flowers, that is. I’ve been anodizing titanium flowers that I cut and formed and placing them with etched metals and patinaed...
