[gallery type="rectangular" size="full" link="file" ids="2227,2231"] I've been working on this bronze belt buckle for about four months now. A while for a simple belt buckle perhaps, but this one proved not so simple. I had been looking for a way to improve my bas-relief sculpting skills...
I've mentioned that I would be debuting new jewelry soon. Well, that time is May 15th, 16th and 17th! I will be at Maker Faire Bay Area 2015! I will have my own booth with live displays of my Printrbot 3D printer and computerized embroidery machine that I...
[gallery type="rectangular" ids="2142,2144,2146,2143,2145"] Sometimes I work in Secret. Sometimes I have an open sharing process. For the past 18 months I have been secreted away learning new skills--figuring out how to use digital technology to make my design visions real. Things are starting to work out...
My book is out in paperback now, and I've been posting a lot of photos to its new facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/polymer.clay.beads (as well as to my Flickr feed, and the Portfolio page of diffendaffer.com). For the occasion, I've been digging deep into the archives, including...
Any time I've been away for a while from the practice of making beads, I find I need an easy re-entry to get things moving again in the studio. These beads are perfect. I roll out a batch of core beads to start with. It's...
I'm back from my teaching trip to Europe and have been buried in the studio producing these retro rayguns. Check out this video and come see them at the Fuller Craft Museum from August 8th to November 18th....