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I came across this article about Damon Bard and the sculpting work he does for the movies. Polymer clay is one of the materials he uses.
Bard designs characters and also sculpts others’ character designs into models called maquettes. “I design in 3-D primarily. I do design for creatures and characters like [...]
The Noank Foundry (where I’m currently taking a sculpting class from Chris Long) now has a website. Check it out if you’re in the Connecticut area.
The Connecticut Bead Society is holding their annual Bead Bazaar on September 15th and 16th. It will be from 10AM-5PM at the Holiday Inn, 201 WASHINGTON AVE. (RT 5) in North Haven, CT.
If you’re in the area, drop by. I’ll be there Saturday and some of my beads will be at the [...]
Quick little article about artist Judy Summer who didn’t let her declining sight make her give up art.
She can’t solder or do detailed jewelry work anymore. Yet still she works, crafting horses like grass-green “Springtime” and dawn-red “Sunrise” out of polymer clay. They stood proudly Saturday at her [...]
I came across this article, Weird Science Makes Wonderful Art about a teleidoscope as public art.
It’s a telescope. No, it’s a kaleidoscope. No, it’s both — a teleidoscope.
Local artist Gregg Payne created the teleidoscope from scrap metal, including a four-foot piece of copper pipe, stainless steel couplings and [...]
Article on miniature doll artist Cheri DeGruccio.
Cheri DeGruccio makes dolls. But not just any dolls. She makes tiny dolls. Make that teeny dolls. Actually they are teeny-tiny dolls.
To give you a sense of size, know that you could hold a whole bunch of them in your hand. Some of [...]
I came across this article about an exhibit which included a video kaleidoscope.
Ara Peterson and Jim Drain’s “Large Video Kaleidoscope” (2003-06) looks like the most direct remembrance of Turrell here. It opens a hole in the wall through which angled mirrors multiply the changing light, colors and figures of an abstract video [...]
Check out this article on jewelry artist Lauren Van Hemert which discusses how she went from scrapbooking and tablecloths to polymer clay art.
“For my mom I had made this tablecloth where I ironed on family photos. …everyone wanted to know how to make that tablecloth. That’s about the [...]
Here’s an article about a polymer clay doll created for the movies.
For several years, Marcia Dundore Wolter has been creating one-of-a-kind collectible dolls from her Morris home studio. She sells them at The Woelfel House Gallery and through her Web site.
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“Driftwood” would be about an old [...]
I spent this past weekend up near New Haven, CT attending Clay ConneCTion 2006. It’s a weekend jam packed full of demos, challenges, and more and more clay. We had about 70 attendees this year and lots of great demos (I was the demo coordinator this year).
I learned a cool way of [...]
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