Through the Eyes of Artists

I hope you all had a wonderful, safe and relaxing New Year’s Day. Now that the holidays are over and we get back to the real world, I’ll give you a few ideas about where to get added inspiration in the coming year.

As most of you realize, you can get a lot of fantastic inspiration by simply perusing the various social network sites from Instagram to Pinterest to Facebook. But there are also some people out there that share a lot of work by other artists, not just their own work.  Of course we do that here on the Daily Polymer Arts blog, reposting on our Facebook page, Instagram and Pinterest so you can follow us there to ensure you don’t miss any great content.

But you can also just follow some great artists on the social networks who share the work of other great artists. I love checking in with Melanie West, for instance, who shares tons of just wonderful craft art of all kinds. She recently posted work by this woodturner, Graeme Priddle, which just blew me away. Look at the lusciousness of the carved lines and the way they flow around the form, echoing the outside shape and bracketed with a similar feel in the flowing horn-like bars on the sides.

This may be wood but similar forms can be created in polymer and seeing this got me thinking about doing more hand sculpting and creating rippling, flowing lines in polymer. Although this may not inspire you in that same way, work in other mediums brings you fresh design ideas that may sit in the back of your mind or something might pop up that is just the thing to get you sparked on a new project.

Check out more of Graeme’s work on his website and follow Melanie on Facebook and anyone else you find who shares fantastic new-to-you work to help spark and freshen up your creative work.