Timmins Technique in Full Color
No one makes swirls lentils like Laura Timmins. And I have never seen anyone put together a more concise, accessible and interesting way of explaining such a complex process.
This is really a pretty cool visual of how Laura builds the components that make her gorgeous lentils. She created this quite a few years ago to help explain to her customers how she uses polymer clay to make her work. She has found that the popularity of polymer has made explaining the material and process less necessary than in the past but it’s still a fun and colorful visual to have.
What do you use, if anything, to educate people about your process when at public events?
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When I’m at public events I always plan on carving out just a little bit of room to have a small demo space. Generally I’ll have a block or two of clay to show how it starts, and something I’m working on to show an intermediate step, as well as a range of finished work. Once people see that I’m in the process of making something, they will ask questions about what I did to make it look this way or that way. When I can’t have a little demonstration going, I’ll set up an electronic picture frame with a series of process images. But people really prefer to see something happening live, and they will come back to see how it’s changed.
Thank you for the compliment Sage!
Even though many more people know about polymer than when I started selling my work in the mid 1990’s, I do still find this summary of what I do very useful. Most of the people who buy my work still do not know much, if anything, about polymer. People really seem to enjoy knowing what went in to making a piece.
I provide print copies of this to all of my galleries to hand out to their customers, and it is available for past customers to download and print out from my wholesale website: http://www.swirlstone.com/Process/
That is probably the best written and illustrated demo I have seen. I love the background in black, as it really lets the colours of the polymer pop. I love the flow from image to image as well. Much more organic than a series of numbered steps, yet still highly organized and easy to follow.