Louise Hibbert
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"...
Anne Goldman Ceramics
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...
Inspiration by Haeckel
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...
Earrings on the Way
It's always hard for me to get back in the swing of things when I haven't worked in my studio for a long time. This time it's been a particularly long time away. Some people talk about an artist's block. As far as I'm concerned...
The Steampunk Treehouse
I recently had the good fortune to disrupt my sleep schedule and other biological rhythyms for the sake of the Steampunk Treehouse. My sleep schedule is coming back around but my head is still spinning from the experience. If you know me, you know I...
I built it, now I’m moving in.
I built this website and now it's time for me to go back in the studio. I built that too, but truth be told, I moved into it three years ago. And since I'm in the mood for truth telling, I just installed stairs in...
Welcome to Many Parts
Welcome to many parts. I'm Grant Diffendaffer. I am a jewelry and bead artist working primarily with polymer and silver clay, and this is my new blog. Whether you have visited my previous website at Diffendaffer.com or this is your first time here, I hope...