Nov 24
This was another tile from Laurie Mika’s workshop this summer, to which I added four tiny seed beads. I’m not very proud of the sloppy paint job around the rays; I should have taken more time with the paint. At the art store, they have seemingly dozens of different types of paints, inks, dyes, and …
Nov 17
Here are the last four of the resin scrabble tiles that I made. I s till haven’t decided what to do with them. Pins or pendants, I suppose. Buttons maybe? They’re a little too tall to be good ephemera for a book cover, and maybe a little too elaborate to just be tiles in a …
Nov 10
This was one of the stamped clay tiles I made at Laurie Mika’s workshop this summer. People who are familiar with Laurie Mika’s work may recognize this stamp, because she’s used it often. I added the crown charm from a collection I’d bought on my own. One of my co-students generously let me use her …
Nov 03
I made this pendant as part of my scrabble tile pendant set, and decided it was one of the better ones so I’d sacrifice a bail for it. I tied some transparent beading line for a chain, since I didn’t have anything better. My sister, the recipient of this, tactfully said she swapped it out …
Oct 27
I took a workshop with Laurie Mika, an artist I admire who works primarily with polymer clay. There were other of her workshops I wanted to take more, but time and money made them unfeasible, so I took the one about painting on clay. The techniques themselves were pretty simple and straighforward. I learned the …
