Le caméléon est arrivé au bout du chemin, de son chemin et pour lui le voyage est terminé. Il vous laisse le poursuivre seul et vous remercie de l’avoir accompagné au long de ces quelques étapes.

La planète polymère est vaste et pleine de surprises, ses habitants souvent surprenants et attachants. Je vous souhaite d’arpenter pendant longtemps encore ses paysages si variés et de vous émerveiller de ses trésors comme il m’est arrivé si souvent de le faire.

Bonne route…

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The great ideas never get lost. They appear, blossom and then seem to vanish. But they are only lying dormant, waiting for someone to bring them back to the light.

It’s just what Spanish artist Arual did with this series of polymer clay pendants inspired by the work of Mike Buesseler.

A magnificent realization to pay a tribute to the pioneer of the many ways to use metallic polymer clays.

Y un fuerte aplauso para Arual…

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The frontier between polymer clay and painting is rather vague and some artists take advantage of it to mix up the genres and to confuse things. That’s what Karen Lorraine does.

She paints with oil pencils on a polymer clay canvas then covers the whole surface with a thin layer of TLS mixed with diluent. But the twist that changes it all is the fact that she starts again painting after curing the piece. Some of her pictures have more than two layers of superimposed paint.

With this original approach, she can ’’sculpt” the painting and give a sensation of depth with the light passing more or less between the successive layers. She gives some explanations about the process.

We can compare this technique with the one used by this Argentine born artist who ”paint” with coloured layers of glass. You can find more details about her on a Susan Lomuto Rose’s post. 

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To echo to my yesterday post and as a confirmation of the usual sharing attitude of the polymer clay community, I invite you to pay a visit to the French polymer artist Cristalline’s blog. She is brimming over with generosity and creativity.

It’s quite sure that Cristalline lives in a parallel dimension, in which time is not flowing at the same pace as in our poor world, as her productivness is so impressive. She gets a hundred ideas per second, realizes fifty projects at the same time and finally spare enough time to be able to share her techniques and to produce well detailed and illustrated tutorials.

For instance, you will find explanations on an original technique of creation of roses or on how to make ultra-light collars. And you will have the pleasure to find many more if you search through the ”Tutoriels FIMO” category in her blog.

Ah, just a last little word! Don’t forget to leave a comment when you go and visit her! There is nothing more rewarding than knowing that you didn’t lose your time and that some persons were not indifferent to what you offered them.

So, during a long period of time, we will be able to say: ”Polymer clay has a voice and it is… crystal-clear.”

PS: cristalline means crystal-clear in french 

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If a little drawing is worth more than a long speech, what about a video? Honouring the sharing spirit that prevails in the polymer clay community, United States’ Christie Wright made two videos to demonstrate some basic polymer clay techniques.

The first one shows how to make marbled beads, while the second one is dedicated to spiral cane, how to reduce it and the way to realize polka dots beads with it.

Those two videos can be found on LiveVideo and are aimed primarily at beginners. Even if the comments are obviously in english, it’s quite easy to understand the techniques only viewing the images.

Nevertheless, I had to emphasized the effort. Nice job, Christie!

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