Roxen Moonlight Dress, part 3
Time for the really fun part of the work! In my previous blog posts about this special dress I have shown how I made the paper pattern. I have also sewn the dress in black fabric, but I have no … Read More
Time for the really fun part of the work! In my previous blog posts about this special dress I have shown how I made the paper pattern. I have also sewn the dress in black fabric, but I have no … Read More
First, I had to make the pattern for the dress. I traced it on tracing paper from the pattern sheet of the magazine Burda style and then combined the front pieces of pattern to one front piece. On this front … Read More
All creations start with an idea, or I would rather say a lot of ideas combined together. Creativity is to make order out of chaos. This chaos consisted of lake Roxen, northern lights, of horses and of a wonderful moonlight … Read More
I haven’t seen the book yet, but I know that I have been selected as one of the contributing artists. You can pre-order it now, with 30 % discount through March 30th. Polymer Journeys is a large format, soft cover … Read More
And this is what he looks like, the Vitruvian Sleipner – when he is finished! He is created in black polymer clay and is placed within a mobile ring, covered in mobile clay. On the ring, the story of Sleipner … Read More
On the ring around the eight-legged horse I wrote the story of the norse god Oden’s beloved horse Sleipner. I wrote it with runes, and the English translation would be something like this: ”Sleipner can gallop faster than any other … Read More
Once I had adjuted the ”skeleton” of steel wire to fit into the polymer clay-wrapped mobile ring, it was quite easy to build up the horse’s body and give it its round shapes. A special challenge was the eight legs, … Read More
To get a perfect circle, I took a mobile ring and covered it in almost black polymer clay. Then I made the skeleton for the eight-legged horse in steel wire. As you can see, I gof a lot of help … Read More
The theme for the IPCA Awards 2015 was ”In the round”. My first thought was a horse in a circle. It did not take long before I in my mind saw something like Lionardo da Vinci’s The Vitruvian man. But … Read More
All the participants are concentrated and working, you can hear the murmur of voices and the merry laughters. Eva Källberg shows and tells how to use alcohol inks on polymer clay ”Ink it on”. Most of the participants have never … Read More