In the sculptor’s lair with Marie Young: polymer clay sculptures and mixed media projects. Sculpting tutorials, tips and tricks for your own projects. See original work created. Each piece is meticulously handcrafted in the MarieYoung Creative studio and sold online and in select galleries. No mass produced work here!
I wanted to create a mixed media work for my polymer guild’s challenge this month. I was going through my studio for inspiration when two things caught my eye: the start of a cat head sculpt and some leftover flag napkins from a past 4th of July celebration. The image of a WWII pin up girl started to form in my head.
“Emily, the Art Deco Cigarette Girl” sculpture is one of those ideas that I had in my head for a couple of years before I felt ready to create it. It is modeled after my Siamese cat Emily.
This bird-themed business card case design came from an experiment. The bottom layer is a stamped bird design on a pale yellow translucent sheet. The top layer is a mokume gane pattern created from slicing into purple and gold polymer sheets.
Shooting with my camera on auto isn’t going to cut it anymore. Yet, when I read articles about f-stop, shutter speed, ISO etc. I might as well be reading Latin. I knew that I had to have a live person teach me.
I covered my first egg shell with polymer clay as part of an egg swap through the Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy about three years ago. That was a gateway egg for my new addiction. I really don’t need any special occasion to create a decorative egg, but Easter certainly provides a nice excuse….
Behind the scenes look at how a floral-patterned polymer clay covered chicken egg is magically transformed into an owl ornament with steampunk flair.
I knew that I had been exploring polymer covered egg shells for a while, but I hadn’t realized that they are starting to become “my thing.” This photo shows a portion of them. It seems that I can celebrate just about any occasion with an egg 🙂 If you’d like to read about some of…
This Art Deco bud vase started with a hollow egg shell that I covered almost entirely with luscious eggplant purple polymer clay topped off with a swag of gilded gold. The influence for the gold faux fabric swag around the top is from Helen Breil’s Shapes e-book. I left a portion of the egg exposed…
This curious-looking white rabbit, emerging from his hole, is my latest adventure in polymer-covered egg art.
Down the rabbit hole Playing it safe in life doesn’t always lead to the most creative solutions. When was the last time you explored a rabbit hole? After you finished falling, what new discoveries did the adventure bring to you?