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
Today I have been involved in a historic event! For the first time in world history, polymer clay-interested persons from the Nordic countries gathered at a joint conference. It was Karolina Söderberg, who also runs Hobbyrian, who took the initiative. … Read More
The Dala Horse with its kurbits pattern is one of the symbols of Sweden. Thus, it is especially fun to play with it, to see if you can bring something different and new to the concept. When it comes to … Read More