Cabin Fever 2015

CABIN FEVER CREATIVE ARTS FEST 

When: February 12 – 18, 2015.

Where: at the Holiday Inn West, Laurel, Maryland.

Instructors: Maureen Carlson, Jana Roberts Benzon, Robert Dancik, Dayle Doroshow, Christi Friesen, Lindly Haunani, Anke Humpert, Doreen Kassel, Randee Ketzel, Melanie Muir, Kathryn Jo Ottman, Nan Roche, Sarah Shriver, Marie Segal, Eugena Topina, and Teri Walters.

There will be full-day pre-conference workshops and 4-hour conference workshops. 

For more information, please check  Creative Art's Fest Blog.

New Tutorial Faux Cloisonne: Color

I am very excited about this new tutorial and happy to introduce it. 

With this tutorial, I invite you to return to my signature Faux Cloisonne technique and explore various possibilities for creating beautiful reach colors. 

This tutorial explains in a great detail how to add a metal leaf insert to your faux cloisonne project, how to color it with alcohol inks in a number of different ways, and how to expand your mica powders palette.  You will find in this tutorial numerous tips which will save you a lot of time and money not only with this particular technique, but with your polymer clay work in general.


To demonstrate this technique, I chose a project shown above - a colorful brooch in an interesting shape.  In this tutorial you will find step-by-step instructions for making this particular brooch (including a detailed demonstration of finishing its back and suggestions for choosing an optimal closure for your polymer clay brooches). 

In addition to that,  I included a page with a few other brooch designs, ready to be used in your projects.

This new Faux Cloisonne in Polymer Clay tutorial is available in my etsy shop.

Bursting with Color

If you asked me any time up until recently what was my favorite color, I would say black.  I liked it in my clothes and I used it a lot in my polymer clay art.  Actually, most of my designs were about the line, and color was something secondary, and often an afterthought.

Now, I do not know what happened, but suddenly not only do I embrace color, but I am literally craving color - both in my art and in my wardrobe...

Here are a few examples of my latest creations (and yes - a tutorial is following soon).  These all brooches, and they all are done in my signature Faux Cloisonne technique.

Orlando Clay Fandango 2015

There are only 19 class slots left for the 2015 Orlando Clay Fandango.

If you want to participate in this event -  do not procrastinate.

You need to get your  $25 in to secure a spot before it is too late.