Pendant: Green, Gold, and Teal

By Lena Shore | May 14, 2018 |

This was a pendant I created using some new techniques taught by Elena Marunich at an online polymer clay retreat I’m participating in. It’s 3 3/8″ tall by approximately 1.5″ wide. I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out, although, it is far from something I would normally make.I think next time I’ll try not…

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Tiled In-Box

By Lena Shore | February 11, 2018 |

I wanted an inbox for my desk, but couldn’t find anything that inspired me. A few months ago I started making unique clay tiles. All the base colors are the clay, but I did a lot of shading with translucent mica powders. Some tiles have inclusions of glass and swarovski crystals. I created a few…

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What’s Opera Doc?

By Lena Shore | October 24, 2017 |

I loved Bugs Bunny as a kid and still do today. One of my favorite episodes is “What’s Opera Doc?” It features Bug’s Bunny being chased by Elmer Fudd through a parody of Richard Wagner’s 19th century operas.  It’s listed as one of the 50 greatest cartoons of all time. My absolute favorite part is…

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Two abstract rocks and one weird test rock

By Lena Shore | September 5, 2017 |

I’m still painting and playing with rocks. They make nice quick projects to start off the morning. Pink black spiral rock: This was a a practice rock. It’s thin slices of clay overlapped to encase the rock. Then smoothed, baked, sanded, and buffed. It’s not very pretty. But, it was good practice for more things…

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Friendship, Alien, and Monster Hearts

By Lena Shore | August 29, 2017 |

If you are anything like me, you and your significant other have lots of inside jokes. Things that might seem silly and goofy to others, but it’s fun for you. My friend and her husband like silly things just like we do. One day she signed her email to me “Fu-fump, Fu-fump, Fu-fump” and explained…

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Clay on Rocks

By Lena Shore | August 18, 2017 |

These were my first rocks. I didn’t know about the kindness movement of painting rocks back then. These sat around for a long time gathering dust. As soon as I realized there was a “rock movement”, I hid these. Hope they made someone happy.

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