Joy's Creative Space

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Serendipity I created this pin with a technique from Making Polymer Clay Beads by Carol Blackburn . I was experimenting making a wood like effect. I had made the bead for a pendent but did not use it at the time. I had a class in Art History and the students took a part a computer while they learned about Picasso and Found objects.     I attached the tiny spring to the surface not really knowing how I would use it. I had a brush that I had broken a few weeks a go laying on the table and decided that the little spring would be perfect to hold the tiny brush.  I incorporated gold wire and a tiny pearl flower as well . That was perfect! I put resin over the whole surface to give it a glass like finish.When the pin was set, I used metallic gold to give it richness.                                           Artful Pins by Joy   ...

                      While I am in my studio working on a creative project or just organizing my materiel,  creating surfaces and collage material, I have my iPod with a background of some podcast that inspires me. One of my favorite podcast is Creative Living with Jamie Ridler   She has some wonderful artists that she has on her show and I just really love to listen to them. I feel like she is right there in my studio. I think listening pod-casts and watching you tubes is a great way to always feed your own creative well. Check it out or find another podcast that you find inspiring. Joy

                     I used material that is ordinarily looked at as trash and unimportant and  transform it through the alchemy of creativity. It is my belief that plastic is the new art material and a perfect resource for artists. Someday in the future we will be seen as the ancients and our art if created with plastic will last into the future way after we are no longer here on earth.Why not leave something beautiful that will tell our story through the use of plastic and other"Green" material..

Welcome to Joy's Creative Space. I hope that you will enjoy my posts. I will always add interesting topics about the creative process, have examples of my own creative process and the on-going projects that I am working on in my studio, show artist in action through my creative workshops and classes and have material taken from various sources on creativity a well as post How to Videos of different techniques and media. I hope that you will join my blog and come back often to see my up dates as well as leave comments an share your own creative process on the blog. I think creativity is an exciting journey but that we do not have to travel alone.....  Workshop on Creative Journaling with theme of Spring