Spring 2014 Cover Revealed …

We interrupt this week of randomness with the next issue’s dramatic cover!  Spring 2014, themed “Wrap it Up”  is due to come out around March 1st.

In this issue we’re exploring many of things you do after you’ve created a your art as well as a lot of in-studio exploration:

• Best finishing sealants
• How to make finishing easier
• Packaging your art
• Using software to create great photos of your work
• The fine line between Copying and Being Inspired By
• Wire wrapping with polymer
• Making and using a neck form (to make things like the piece you see on the cover)
• Close up color analysis of millefiori canes
• Unique studio tools (many that you can make yourself)
• Book & product reviews, artist galleries and more!

Now, before I tell you who the artist is on the cover, can you guess? I think this is a bit different for her which is why I was particularly excited to have this piece for the cover.

Have you come up with a name? This is not her usual form. In fact, the only other collar form I’ve seen like this was in my own studio. That comparison led to this artist and I having a fun chat about the construction processes needed for adding fiber and fabric to polymer (something for a future article, I’m sure!) The unusual form and the “wrapping” of polymer around onto itself is not so unusual for her. Do you have it?

The piece is called “Show Some Glamour” by Helen Breil. Helen has never been afraid try new things and push the form of polymer. She shares her thoughts and experiences in a great article on the subject of copying and giving proper credit that is in this issue. We also, incidentally have an article on making a neck form written by Lorrene Baum Davis in order to produce wrap around forms like this. So … lots of inspiration and ideas from Helen and many others this issue!

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