Polymeri Online 17.9.09

Looshies! the looshies are cute, smiling, happy, monster like polymer clay creations. Their creator is Orr Zahavi from Israel, He have been working with polymer clays for over 20 years and decided it's time to try and sell it as well. The name Looshies. derives from his beloved dog's name "Loosh" (a beautiful female weimaraner)
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7985390

Rubber Stamp Tutorial by Regina from Creative Kismet blog - give it a try! she has some cool ideas in her blog!
http://blog.creativekismet.com/2007/02/22/rubber-stamp-tutorial/ http://blog.creativekismet.com/2009/09/12/my-new-stamps/http://blog.creativekismet.com/2008/04/29/carved-rubber-stamps-storage-and-care/

jellybeanjunction's Shop is full of Dachshunds! so cute!
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5822300
and her blog - http://jellybean-junction.blogspot.com/
more from her dollhouse miniaturesis here:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=8012307

Owl Tutorial by j0rie
http://www.flickr.com/photos/j0rie/3211406774/in/set-72157612705109033/
and blog - http://2crafty2care.blogspot.com/

Polymeri Online 10.9.09

Tanchoo Design / Tanya Chercunova from Russia has accessories, textile, jewelry and photography in her site, dots, holes & texture in her polymer clay art, clean geometric line, and i loved that ambient music in her .ru site!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanchoo_design/
http://www.tanchoo.ru/

Evan K. / Antithesis designes polymer clay mythical animals and creatures, fantazy like.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39407054@N07/sets/72157622111835116/

Flowerly necklace by hypatia fimoholic she is 23 and I live in Bosnia and Herzegovina . A few years ago her boyfriend discovered polymer clay. He thought It could be a good gift for her, and he was right! she works mostly with FIMO, beads, wire, & crystals.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hypatiajewelry/3862446445/

Polymeri Online 28.8.08

jessicajanelove - Jessi loves art in all forms, her tiny petite houses are so cute!
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6017108
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=41314
http://jessicajaneatetsydotcom.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessicajanelove/

Block print tutotial - This great tutorial is suitable for polymer clay printing too! check it out -http://lizzyhouse.typepad.com/lizzyhouse/2008/08/block-print-tutorial.html

Ignotz Cuties!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fraggle_d/

Crazy-Clayz / Marc and David Green We're two polymer clay artists living in Scotland, they love all things weird and creepy, they are mad about movies, fanatical about Fimo and crazy for cake...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/crazy-clayz/

hill designs / Lance Perry is a self taught artist from Nacogdoches, TX.
www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5521288
http://crescenthilldesigns.blogspot.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/crescenthill/

Boogerelli / Shannon is an artist residing in the US. Boogerelli is the themed name she give her cartoon critters who resemble boogers, little people, and amphibian types. she loves working with polymer clay, drawing, doll making and enjoy creating fun, whimsical styled art.
http://www.boogerelli.blogspot.com/

Sarajane Helm is now on flickr too!http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarajanehelm/
http://polyarts.wordpress.com/
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5122121
http://polyclay.com/

Polymeri Online 3.7.08

First announcement - i've made my 100th sale on etsy yesterday! :)
The happy buyer is Toni from keepsakeeggs - http://www.keepsakeeggs.com/about/index.html and i am happy to send you your lovely hamsa + a bag of polymer clay goodies! enjoy and thank you so much!

just before i take my LONG flight to US tonight, here are some more links to our weekly polymeri online posts -

One of my friends and a member of the israeli forum - Natanei just posted about a lovely bug contest taking place in the LiveJournal community and i asked her to tell us more about it -
The Polymer clay community of LiveJournal - Polymerclayfimo was founded at 2005 by galka_vasina and was dedicated for Fimo creations. The community grown and extrapolate its interests to all types of polymer clay. Polymerclayfimo counts 1865 members – Russian speakers from around the world (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, USA, Canada, Israel, German, Austria, etc`). Now community has 3 moderators: galka_vasina (Moscow http://galka--vasina.livejournal.com/ ), shimshony (Elena Samsonova, New York, http://shim-shoni.livejournal.com/) and xanka (Oksana, Moscow, http://xanka.livejournal.com/). Clear and handy tag system help to new users to drill down to journal entries.
Lately community conducts two interesting contests:
Roses Contest
http://community.livejournal.com/polymerclayfimo/1051426.html
http://community.livejournal.com/polymerclayfimo/1058537.html - results
Bugs Contest
http://community.livejournal.com/polymerclayfimo/1122284.html http://community.livejournal.com/polymerclayfimo/1126688.html - results
It's great to see worldwide work!

A great bird cane photo by auntgriz -http://www.flickr.com/photos/auntgriz/2617333782/in/photostream/

Debbie Anne / Debbie Carlton
Designing and making jewellery is a passion for her. She works with silver, gold and like to incorporate colour into her work when ever she can. Inspirations come from the shapes ,textures and colours she sees all around from nature's quirkiness to industrial symmetry. (her photo on the right)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/debbiecarltonjewellery/

loopyboopy likes to sculpt dolls. she have so much fun creating characters. Sometimes they are in her head before she begins, other times they come into being as she makes them. she loves quircky, odd, whimsical, cute, creepy and eerie things. She is a self taught artist, working in sculpture for over 20 years, her work is really a collage of many medium, basically she uses whatever works, Papier Mache, Paperclay, pulp, sculpey... http://www.flickr.com/photos/loopyboopy/
http://www.wincrafty.typepad.com/

see you in another continent! :)
more updates on my trip will be posted!

Jim Jenkins's - "Bognogginz"

It is always like that, when i think i would probably can't find new polymer clay flickr artists, i find it!

This is Jim Jenkins from San Diego, US. He never set out to make little creatures and caricature from clay. When he started he was just playing with modeling clay. As he played he would notice faces and figures looking back at him from the clay. He made them almost by accident, It was just what happened in the clay. From there he continued to develop the creatures and their expressions and their emotions. It is a lot of fun for him! He liked doing his unique little beasts because he had never seen anything like them. It can't be wrong if he made it up, right? From there he developed a back story about the "Bognogginz". The Bognogginzare a race of creatures from a place deep in the swamps of Southern Louisiana called Johnson's Bog. Johnson's Bog is not your typical swamp. It is more a reflection of our society and an opportunity to make comment on things that exist in the real world. He called them "Bognogginz" because they are from a bog and almost all face and head.

Jim teaches the occasional class in San Diego and volunteer at local schools to bring his passion for working in synthetic modeling compounds to young up and coming artists in the area.

Thank you Jim for sharing this info with us, i love your work!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bognogginz/
http://www.2jdesign.com/2JDesign.html

Polymeri Online 8.3.07

Few Links on Creatures and Creations!

Oolong - Fergus Ray Murray Blog which feature sculpted animal photos and a tutorial for making a cat!

http://www.oolong.co.uk/zoo/

http://oolong.co.uk/colmod.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/0olong/

Dylan Edwards Site - Dylan says he has been making art for longer than he can remember, and has been fascinated with monsters!

http://www.feepingcreatures.com/

his Magnets -

http://www.feepingcreatures.com/accessories/magnets.html

and don't miss anything in his site.

Flickr Gallery by alienpumpkin / Tim Edwards with colorful creatures -http://www.flickr.com/photos/82516008@N00/sets/72157594402099554/

Last one is SpiceGirl site - comics using polymer clay sculpturing -http://www.motodraconis.co.uk/space/ComPage60.html