Today I would like to tell you a little bit about my new clay love: Liquid Sculpey®! It does work a bit different then regular polymer clay and you need to get used to the different way of working with it at first. So, to make it easier for you I thought I share a couple of ideas where you...
“Hungry Fungus", made with Sculpey Premo™ When I was asked what I like best about Sculpey and especially how I use it, at first I did not know what to say. Honestly the answer is not that easy! Thinking about what I use polymer clay for, and specifically Sculpey, I can not give you a straight forward answer. I am...
By: Anke Humpert My favorite technique in polymer clay is a very simple one. I learned it from Donna Kato and I have used it ever since. It´s easy to make but very versatile. And you don’t need a lot of tools: You need at least two colors of clay, but you can use more if you want to. I...
The Spring cleaning, I told you about, is still happening in my studio. And if you think I have too much stuff you are probably right. It does feel good to go through all my supplies and decide what will be worth taking up the valuable real estate in my studio and what will have to find some other...
Liquid Sculpey bakeable medium is one of the newest products from Polyform and more than once I heard the question: “What can you do with it?” Well sometimes it is kind of hard to answer that just using words. So I thought I would share some of my experiments with you and point you to some more information to help...
It´s April…spring time! I know for some of us it still feels very much like winter, but we do hope spring will soon come for all of us in the Northern Hemisphere! In Spring time a lot of us get that urge to clean and get everything tidy. You want to get the cob webs of winter out and get fresh...
by Anke Humpert “People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and its ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spat blues. Murky darknesses. In my line of work, I...
Most of us do spent a fair amount of time on line. Often for work, but also in our free time. We connect to friends and family and we inform ourselves. And let´s be honest more often that we want we also fall down the rabbit hole and one thing leads to another: we spent much more time that...
When you ask artists about their sources of inspiration often you will hear: “I am inspired by nature!” Well, that´s great, but what does it actually mean?I wanted to see for myself if I can tap into “nature” and find some inspiration. As it is summer right now there are a lot of beautiful sun sets to watch and...
I really love bracelets and over the years I made lots of them. Of course I want to have a great design on the outside of the bracelet. after all that is what you see most of the time. But I also find it very important to have a nicely done inside and it should feel good when I wear my bracelet. Not too long ago I...
I came back from a teaching trip to Florida on the 1st of June. I am still in the process of digesting all my impressions, but I did not want too much time go by before I share some of my experiences with you. My first stop was at Lake Yale, near Leeburg, FL. The...
A Workshop with Kathleen Dustin Kathleen Dustin and Anke Humpert My home guild, the German Polymer Clay Guild polyclaykunst.de had arranged a workshop with Kathleen Dustin (April 24th - 26th, 2015). This workshop was one I have been looking forward to for a long time! I had meet Kathleen on two occasions earlier, but I had never taken a...
Creating in patriotic colors is always so much fun for Memorial Day in the late spring, the Fourth of July in mid-summer and then Veterans Day in the fall. These adorable little patriotic flowers are fabulous to create an use in variety of fun ways. To get started, you are going to need Sculpey III clay in red, white and...
Literally and figuratively speaking. This morning I was smelling something “electric” (if you ever did, you know what I mean!) near my work desk. I unplugged all my computer gear and tried to located where that smell came from. This really worried me since I know how quickly things can start burning (but that´s another story!). This was not really...
No matter if working with polymer clay is your hobby, your creative outlet or it is your art form, we are all not inspired at times. We feel we are doing the same old same old again and again and just have no ideas at one point. It happens to everyone. The point is: not to stay un-inspired and un-creative...
Just recently I got some new ChameleonTM Pens. I had seen Syndee Holt using them on polymer clay and so I was really exited and looking forward to use them myself and I would like to tell you a little bit about my first tests with theses pens! The ChameleonTM Pens are permanent alcohol ink pens with an inbuilt blending...
