San Francisco-based Justina Kochansky maintains a delightful sculptural web comic on Flickr, called Articulate Matter. Featuring mainly squid and other sea creatures, it is quirky and clever. The squid find themselves in all sorts of situations: Zombie squid, The Birth of Venus, ninja squid, Kal-El Mar-Ee (on his way to Earth), catfish burglers … You […]
Unfold Fab announced the first successful printing of a ceramic vessel by a 3D printer. Interestingly, one of the biggest challenges seems to be eliminating the bubbles in the clay. However, what I want to know is, how to fire the resulting pieces? We took some time to play around and get used to the […]
Julie is a teacher down the hall from me. From time to time she and other teachers offer workshops to other teachers after school. Over the past couple of days, she has showed ten colleagues from the science, special education, history, administration and art how to work with PMC, Precious Metal Clay. Julie talked a […]
I did a post a while back on making recycled paper and it covered making paper from dryer lint – here’s a tutorial about making modeling dough from dryer lint.
Diane of CraftyPod has outdone herself! In her latest podcast she shows you how you can make your own clay. Link.
