Daily Sketch – Llama

By Lena Shore | July 2, 2018 |

Llama’s don’t like me. If I get within spitting range, they spit on me. I think they are really cute but the feeling isn’t mutual. Maybe I’d have better luck with alpacas. Thanks @paul_wolff_art for the inspiration. What should I sketch tomorrow?

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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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