It's the sparkle that gives life to my clay work and might have helped bring about life on earth. Mica is a flaky mineral that organizes naturally in layer upon layer in thin sheets. That feature is what allows me to create controllable chatoyant...
[gallery type="rectangular" link="file" size="full" ids="1502,1504"] I was happy to stumble upon new photos from two of my favorite artists on the Del Mano Gallery website today. Jeffrey Lloyd Dever is one of the dozen artists whose excellent contemporary polymer clay beads are featured in my upcoming book Polymer Clay...
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 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...