Meet Polymer Clay Doll Artist Bonnie Jones
Her clay art dolls are absolutely stunning:
Along my journeys through the wild wild web, I often come across interesting things and interesting people. I would like to share one of those interesting people with you today.
Bonnie Jones is a talented polymer clay doll artist who uses mixed medias to create stunning fairies, mermaids, Santas and witches. I came across her in a recent Google search. One of her blog posts talked about a cool stand she was making for her latest fairy witch masterpiece. After leaving a comment asking about the type of clay used for the stand, this is what she emailed back to me:
Hi Cindy:
So glad you liked the stand I am creating for my Fairy Witch. Apoxie Clay can be found at the url I have listed below at Aves Studio. This is a two part clay when mixed together provides you with a clay that has about an hour or so working time and when it is dry it is hard as a rock. I use it to strength my armatures and for my mosaic stands, some people actually sculpt with it. This particular stand has a wooden base with a wire and foil armature; the apoxie was applied to the armature and it is very strong. The moss is string that was dipped into Paverpol and when that dried, I dripped 3-D crystal lacquer onto the string.
Alot of different mediums were used in this piece. I see you tutor polymer clay; do you have any recommendations for polymer books that show how to sculpt flowers?
Bonnie
http://www.avesstudio.com/
http://bonniejones.typepad.com/
Isn't that cool!? I'm going to have to get me some of that Apoxie clay. When I get a chance to play around with it, I promise to report back here with some more info.
In her email, Bonnie asked for book recommendations about how to sculpt polymer clay flowers. Since I mostly make beads with polymer clay and do very little sculpting… thought I'd a put a call out here. Can anyone help her by providing some good book title suggestions? Use the comments section below to respond. Thanks so much.
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Comments on Meet Polymer Clay Doll Artist Bonnie Jones
2:52 pm
Cindy, I am so honored to have a talented artist such as yourself take the time to write about my art dolls. Making the bases for my dolls is as much fun as sculpting the dolls and I am glad I could offer some tips to other artists. There are so many wonderful mediums out there for us all to experiment with; it definitely keeps our art exciting and certainly not boring.
Thanks again and so glad we met.
Bonnie Jones
10:33 am
I'm glad we met too Bonnie! Your work is so beautiful. I love how dainty and pretty your doll's faces are. When I try to make faces, they always look quite Neandrathol!
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12:36 pm
I've been wanting apoxie for a long time. So many people use it to such stunning effect.
3:04 pm
I had never heard of it before but now I want some too, Nycteris! If you do try it, tell us all about it OK?
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5:47 am
Ah, good grief . . . more different products to try! Can't wait. Need to get a second job before my husband has an attack!
10:21 am
Maybe you'll be able to start selling some of your beads and jewelry so you won't need a second job! If you were able to offset the cost a little your husband would be able to relax a little.
Pst… if your husband is involved a little with the process he might get excited about it too! Get him to invent you a new way of sanding… or if he fishes, get him to learn how to make fishing lures with polymer clay… whatever works to make him happy will make you happy too!
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4:58 pm
Bonnie, you have an amazing imagination! Such diversity! Thank you for the inspiration!