Art Jewelry Magazine

My favorite jewelry magazine just informed me that Addie Kidd ( editor) picked my piece Ghost Dance for this months’ Editors’ blog.

Here is the link

http://cs.artjewelrymag.com/artcs/blogs/artjewelry/2009/11/27/friday-highlights-from-the-subscriber-gallery-2nd-round-addie-s-choice.aspx

This is so cool.

Synergy 2-Baltimore

I have been invited to exhibit my polymer clay jewelry at the synergy 2 conference in Feb.  It is the second huge polymer clay conference held in Baltimore at the end of February.  I am also attending the conference.  This is such an incredible opportunity for me.  I will get to meet most of the artists I admire and learn from them.  I am so excited that I can’t sit still.

Here is the piece I will be exhibiting.

It is constructed from copper wire and polymer clay. I love to do faces, so when I sculpted this one it reminded me of a lonely woman yearning for her mate to return. You can see the entire piece here http://www.flickr.com/photos/polypam/4075929926/

another shout out

Loretta Lam, one of my favorite polymer clay artists gave me a shout out on Polymer clay daily yesterday.
I have been featured there now 4 times. It is fantastic to be noticed among all the incredible talent in the polymer clay world.

new jewelry line

Here are some examples of the new jewelry I have been working on. I call it Urban Ar-Te-Facts. They are made with polymer clay and copper wire.

I have been featured in an Etsy treasury

This piece I made in memory of my mom was featured in an Etsy treasury.

here is the link http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=56675

and here is the piece.

Sanctuary

This was made for a monthly challenge for the PCAGOE

the polymer clay artist guild of Etsy last year.

The piece is made of polymer clay, silver wire and a digital piece I inserted in the middle with liquid clay.

It got a little cloudy, but you can just see the tiny house beyond the trees.

I have been published

my page

This is the third time I have been published. ‘Polymer Clay Mixed Media Jewlery’ is a new book by Shirley Rufener. It is full of great techniques for using polymer clay and mixed media.

I am so honored to be included with such artists as Kathleen Dustin, Christi Freisen and Jeff Dever.

This piece is from scrap clay, which I love to use. I put cool colors thru the pasta machine and this interesting background came out. I then cut an opening and inserted a small digital piece I created. I then sealed the image with liquid polymer clay and added a border.

New digital painting

dragon fly dream

I was surfing the web today and saw some wonderful digital art on Etsy.

So, I went to photoshop and put together this new art piece. The background is my new painting “new day dawning”. I included an eye I drew and a scuplted clay face of mine, along with some other photos. I love the way the face came thru. I like it when my work looks very mystical.

I posted it for sale on my Etsy page.

Cyber Dreamer

steam punk cyber dude

 I have some friends that are into steam punk  (www.remnantsofolde.wordpress.com).   It seems to be somewhat popular now, so I thought my hand sculpted polymer clay faces would look really cool in cyber punk.   An artist I love, Christy Freissen  http://www.cforiginals.net/steampunk.html      has some new steam punk art that is really cool.   I got the clock parts from her website.

I have the idea to do some more with small TV like screens in the head to show photos of dreams. More to come.

Oh happy day

This is a new painting I just finished.

I am so incredibly happy to have Barack Obama as our new president that I call this painting….New Day Dawning. It is mostly acrylic ,but has some texture done with acrylic medium. These are my favorite colors.

painting the unconscience

                                                                                      

I will not stop at the valley brook

I started this painting with a zen quote…..’I will not stop at the valley brook, for fear my shadow may flow into the world.’

     I painted the figure and the trees in the background, thinking I was illustrating the poem. But when I was finished, a friend of mine asked if the 3 figures were muslum women.

     I started to look very closly at this piece and came to the conclusion that I had subconsciously painted my son. He was serving in Iraq at the time.

The figure looks  to be wearing camoflage and is standing in a desert sand storm.

   To say the least…I was floored. It was not my intention of painting Brian. But there he is.

    It is amazing to me that I always seem to put my own life into my art without realizing it.