From the monthly archives: December 2007
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 [...]
Here it is, all put together. There are a few things I’ll probably change for next time but overall, I’m really happy with it. And it turns like butter! (If butter actually turned of course.)
I really can’t capture the look of the images since they’re constantly changing and the dichroic glass [...]
I baked an eyepiece from black clay, then glued that to one end of the PVC pipe. Then I covered the pipe with a layer of clay and smoothed it up over the edges of the eyepiece so there was no seam. I textured the clay and added three sculpted swallows. Once [...]
This kaleidoscope has an acrylic liquid-filled cell. The cell is one of the ones available from PolymerClayProjects and is filled with silicone oil and sealed with epoxy. I also glued a black acrylic circle to the bottom of the object chamber so it would be a sidelit cell with a [...]
I’ve wanted to do a kaleidoscope with a nice, smooth turning end for awhile. After a workshop with Scott Cole, I did some searching for good bearings with a large inner diameter (ID) so I could use some decent sized mirrors. I found some bearings with an outer diameter (OD) of [...]
If you have any interest in color at all, take a look at the two blogs from Maggie Maggio and
Lindly Haunani.
Start with Maggie’s oldest posts to see an absolutely wonderful series on color theory. Lindly even has a post on useful hand stretches when you’ve [...]
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