I came across this one night in the middle of the desert. If I hadn't been drawn in by the visual stickiness of it all, then I would have been hypnotized into its trap by the strange audio reverberations surrounding it. People swung and fell,...
I'm back from a great weekend in San Antonio where I very much enjoyed giving a workshop to the San Antonio Polymer Clay Guild. It's thanks to guilds like this that artists like myself are able to afford the time in the studio that it...
My textured bead class is coming to San Antonio this weekend. At last check there were still a couple spaces left in this two day workshop. Come learn how to turn both raw and cured polymer clay on a simple lathe. Create texture sheets and learn...
He is on the road and moving forward with new work. Dan Cormier is a master of design, execution and finish. He is consistently setting higher standards for his own work, as this brand new and never before published image demonstrates. These beads are from...
I think I'll just stick with my favorite artists thread for the moment and mention Liv Blavarp. Check out this stunning selection of her jewelry on the Charon Kransen Arts page. This Norwegian wood wizard works with exotic hardwoods, which she sometimes dyes, and similar organic...
When I first saw this image on the cover of an Australian craft magazine, it stopped me in my tracks. I had no idea what I was looking at, but I knew that it was right up my alley. It's Louise Hibbert's "Radiolarian Vessel III"...
When I began working with polymer clay, I was fascinated with the ease by which patterns could be repeated. For the next seven years, I explored highly ordered geometric patterns and symmetries. About the time I began exploring organic patterns I got a job working...
Campanulariidae. That's what 19th century biologist and illustrator Ernst Haeckel called the tiny animals he rendered in this drawing. I call it jewelry. Bead forms tied together in the most elegant fashion possible. Simply gorgeous. Sea life and microscopic organisms are fantastic eye openers into the diversity...