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A Collection Of Polymer Clay Masks
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This is one of several incredible miniature masks made by Texas polymer clay artist Patty Barnes. The front cover mask is by sculptor Katherine Dewey, and is a full sized mask on a handle.
The mask fits inside a 3 inch square, and is one of more than hundreds of little wonders in this collection of polymer clay masks. 150 artists contributed their work to put it all together.
See Us At The International Quilt Festival In Houston!
Judith Skinner and I will be exhibiting and selling at the Houston International Quilt Festival again this year, and we’d love to meet more readers! I’ll be in booth #2052 under the “Creative Connections” title, and “Judith Skinner, Maker Of Fun Jewelry” will be right beside me in booth #2054, in the Embellishments section. Held in the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas from November 3-7, this show is HUGE and features all sorts of incredible textile art, and products with which to do it! We’ll be there with books, including the debut of the brand new title A Collection Of Polymer Clay Masks and our premier release Adapting Quilt Patterns To Polymer Clay. We’ll also have a fantastic array of polymer clay jewelry, beads, polymer, ceramic, and metal faces for using in dolls and wearable art, Spirit Doll Kits, masks, and more! We do this show every year because of the wonderful people and the fabulous things we see there. The works of thousands of modern textile artists from around the world are shown here, with quilts and wall hangings and wearable arts interspersed with artist dolls and vintage textile and needlework collections.
If you have any interest in textiles and color, beads and buttons or art dolls–this is a show you will want to see!
A Colorful Polymer Clay Mask
As I mentioned in yesterdays’s blog post, I’ve divvied up the mask photos into categories in order to help organize them on the pages of the upcoming A Collection Of Polymer Clay Masks.
Today I worked on the “Colorful” section, and this is a wonderful representative by artist Dorothy Greynolds. She’s one of 150 whose work will be presented, and I love her sense of color, detail, and humor. This one she calles “Spike”.
There’s lots left to do, but its all coming together well, with more pages finished and edited every day. Now that everything is organized for placement it’s like playing “my own art gallery” every day, arranging the art into the best possible groupings for each two page spread. Its a lot of fun! With images like these to work with, you can see why.
As much as I enjoy working in direct application media like clay, polymer, metal, textiles, and drawing, I also find great pleasure in working with computer programs and digital photos, putting together graphics, webpages, and books. My favorite polymer clay projects are collaborative in their nature, like “Pieces”, the miniature quilt fabric store for the book Adapting Quilt Patterns To Polymer Clay. I look forward to collaborating with other artists in the future to create beautiful books with their art, as well as books that feature my own art.
Check back soon to see how things are coming along on this book and more.!