Lindly’s Latest
After much anticipation…our book Polymer Clay Color Inspirations is finally “here” = available at your local bookstore or at Amazon. It has been delightful to read all of the positive comments on Polymer Clay Daily . You can read more about the book on the Polymerartarchive site here.
…more great news – Maggie Maggio will be blogging about the exercises featured in our book as a regular feature to her blog = Weekend Extras. I look forward to seeing everyone’s color inspirations.
Softflex has a new colorful spotlight on their web site
“We are excited to announce that Margie Deeb will be posting monthly for Spotlight.
If you aren’t familiar with Margie or just need to catch up on what she has done lately, SarahBeth Cullinan offered us insight on Margie and her career. Check back in the months to come and enjoy Margie’s exploration of color in beading”
You may also want to check out Margie Deeb’s monthly color column = “Margie’s Muse” or her blog Color for Bead Artists- where there is a lot of interesting information on color, color paletting, color history and theory – as well as inspiration.
I adore collecting and playing with paint chips…not only are the “free” , they offer the opportunity to play with different color combinations and to make small chip collages of possible color combinations. And nowdays one can play with color chips online…
Many paint manufacturers have launched increasingly sophisticated interactive web sites designed to make consumers feel more confident about making color decisions while buying paint. “Helping Find the Colours You Love” is a comprehensive take on this by Dulux Paint.
The Dulux Paint UK site has several fascinating features to help organize their 12,000 colours
There is an interesting post on optimizing your Mac OsX color picker on Chris Ryan’s Apple blog along with some very useful links.
…and as a total aside = I can’t figure out why the WordPress spellchecker doesn’t recognize the word “blog”?
Registration for Cabin Fever Clay Festival 2010 will be opening soon…in the meantime Kathryn Ottman has started posting information about the classes on the Festival’s blog- (and take a look at last year’s events).
“CFCF 2010 is just around the corner. This will be the 3rd year of this hands-on instruction rich event. This year, we have a couple of metal clay offerings as well as many new polymer clay project classes. Pre-conference workshops will run from Friday, 19 Feb. through Sunday, 21 Feb. and include instructors Jeff Dever, Lindly Haunani, Maggie Maggio, Barbara McGuire, Nan Roche, and Cindy Silas. Additional conference fun begins on Sunday, 21 Feb. and runs through Thursday Feb. 25. Instructors include Tony Aquino, Maureen Carlson, Louise Fisher Cozzi, Dayle Doroshow, Grant Diffendaffer, Laurie Mika, Kathryn Jo Ottman, Lisa Pavelka, Sarah Shriver, and Ronna Sarvas Weltman. Registration will begin in early August. For additional information, please send an email to: cabinfeverclayfestival@yahoo.com or check back on the festival blog. We hope to see you there!”
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