Maria's Polymer Clay Journal
Maria's Polymer Clay Journal
Creating a First Married Christmas ornament with tiny roses, polymer clay, and a few lessons learned along the way. No groundbreaking techniques this time- just a happy excuse to play with clay and to try my hand making tiny roses.…
How tiny magnets turned my cutter chaos into a display of tiny creative treasures. Every once in a while, a studio organization idea works so well that it deserves to be shared. This is one of those ideas. I make…
Giving an old cephalopod eye cane new life with a little wirework and a fresh perspective. Every once in a while, something hiding in the back of the studio decides it is ready for a second act. These cephalopod eye…
Here are my entries for the NWPCG Artist’s Swap that happens at the end of May; Steampunk Honeybees. The theme is “Things with Wings”– a wonderfully open-ended invitation to let imagination take flight. I created one base and made a…
A great technique for kids and my friend Cathy.Here’s the simple process at a glance of my Cylindrical Mirror Bead Tutorial: Prep & Slice: Take high-contrast scrap clay, twist it into a rectangle, and cut it into mirror-matched strips. Presto!…
My Dichroic Polymer I’ve created the best and easiest polymer clay faux dichroic glass you’ll ever make. Seriously. Forget exclusive or expensive materials and alcohol inks that lose their spark over time. Follow my technique for creating show-stopping faux dichroic…
Before I ever created these faux opals, I fell headfirst into a worldwide opal rabbit hole. I studied gems from Australia, Ethiopia, Mexico, and beyond, searching for the secret behind those impossible flashes of color. But I kept returning to…
For the past month, my worktable has looked less like an artist’s studio and more like a geological laboratory. My mission? To create a convincing faux turquoise. The journey wasn’t exactly a straight line. It took eight rounds of experimenting,…
Since April, the Northwest Polymer Clay Guild is meeting on Zoom. I had a space downstairs set up while I’m getting my clay studio ready. Here’s a few dining table creations…
… over me. You’re singing it now, aren’t you? Scraping, sanding, spackling, sanding, priming, sanding, painting, cleaning… it’s finally finished! Hung new curtains, moved in a few things but like all new studio configuration, it’s subject to change to what…