Last weekend I taught Textile Inspirations/Increasing Your Color Confidence for the New York Polymer Clay Guild. What a fantastically welcoming and talented group of polymer clay artists! It is always inspiring to me to see just how many variations on the same patterns that each class comes up with. Each student was assigned a different color palette to explore. Rita Simms has posted photos of her textile inspirations on her web page.
I also got to see a very clever tool in action. Heather Dadak had attached a small lasy Susan mechanism to a 4′ x 8′ bamboo cutting board, which allowed her to adjust her viewing and cutting angles as she worke on each piece. I’ve seen similar set ups in pastry kitchens, sculpting studios and ceramics rooms…but it had never occurred to me to use it while working with polymer clay.
