by Libby on March 18, 2008
Judy Dunn has a great post on artistic progression. I had a post contrasting something I really liked very early in my polymer clay work with something from my current work, but it “poofed” with that block of 4 months of posts. The publication of my PolymerCAFE article had me digging through my [...]
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by Libby on March 17, 2008
I’m pretty excited. My first magazine article, “Framed Scribble Earrings” is out in the April issue of PolymerCAFE. It was an interesting process and a definite learning opportunity. What surprised me most was how difficult it was to define my process and describe it in a concise and clear way. I [...]
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by Libby on March 15, 2008
Last weekend I taught a Cane Slice Caterpillar Bracelet class at the So. CT Polymer Clay Guild’s annual Weekend of Clay. It’s not a difficult project, just a bit time consuming. We were working primarily in black and white so it was a bit tricky seeing the black thread against the black beads. [...]
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bracelets,
polymer clay,
teaching
by Libby on March 14, 2008
Apologies to any subscribers who’ve just received repeats of my posts since Feb 25th in their blog reader. I had another “reset”. The server crashed again (multiple times). I am crossing my fingers that the server is now stable and I won’t lose the posts I just restored manually. Frustration doesn’t [...]
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by Libby on March 7, 2008
Ok, I’m still swamped, so here is a quick 5 Friday Favorites. PMC artists, 5 of my absolute favorites, who use metal clay in exciting ways. In completely random order:
Celie Fago
Gordon Uyehara
Kelly Russell
Jennifer Kahn
Kate McKinnon
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