There hasn’t been much activity on this blog in quite some time, due to life getting busy and all. At the moment I’m at work behind the scenes rebuilding the site, which has never worked quite the way I want it to. I’ll spare you...
It's tacked above my computer here: "Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back-- Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits...
Spending time on the computer can be so all engrossing and so often a frustrating waste of time that I often find myself avoiding it just so I can have a life. That's the nature of my attention. I love to become engrossed in the...
Looking at my students work has inspired me to look back at some of my early successes developing techniques to turn polymer clay on a lathe. I initially approached it as if it were turning ceramic clay, and like clay spinning on a wheel, shaped...
Denise Aratangy is coming all the way from Brazil, and sends this shot of a beautiful pendant using my ghost image techniques.
Elise Winters just posted this shot of Pier Voulkos's wonderful balloon forms: Here's more:...
The June/July 2008 issue of Beadwork magazine is out now and features this review of my book: "Learn from a Master Polymer Clay Beads: Techniques--Projects--Inspiration Grant Diffendaffer This is a must-have book for all who want to make polymer beads, written by one of the premier polymer clay artists...
I am pleased to announce that I have been asked to be on a five member jury that will choose the winners of "Celebrating Beads", the first annual International Juried Jewelry Design Competition being hosted this summer by the Bead Museum DC. There are twelve...