{"id":902,"date":"2009-09-26T14:51:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T07:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?p=902"},"modified":"2014-02-26T09:45:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T02:45:09","slug":"project-1-pivot-bead-strands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/2009\/09\/project-1-pivot-bead-strands\/","title":{"rendered":"Project #1 Pivot Bead Strands"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"tricksy_gnome\"<\/a>This pivot bead strand is up on tricksy_gnome’s Flickr site<\/a>.\u00a0 A beautiful combination of colors!<\/p>\n

The idea for the pivot beads came when I started using canes as the underlayer for\u00a0my watercolor technique.<\/p>\n

The original watercolor beads were made for the silent auction at the second Ravensdale conference in 1998. Lindly and I were teaching a three day color workshop together and the first evening\u00a0I showed her some of my early color washing experiments. At the time I was using a pre-mixed\u00a0palette of Fimo colors that had foil leaf mixed in. We didn’t have any Fimo white clay so we grabbed some Sculpey II and ran very\u00a0thin sheets of the Fimo over thick sheets of Sculpey.\u00a0The resulting\u00a0sheets looked very much like watercolor on paper so we tore them into\u00a0bits to cover balls of scrap clay.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"waterbeadssm\"<\/a>\u00a0Since I\u00a0needed something to donate to the silent auction, we very quickly made a collection of beads and sent them off to the auction coordinators. They were a big hit! The next night\u00a0a few\u00a0friends came down to our studio\u00a0to help make more beads. The crew included Pier Volkous, Elise Winters, and Cynthia Toops, plus Lindly and I.\u00a0 As you can imagine – the beads were gorgeous!<\/p>\n

I am thrilled to announce that some of the original Watercolor beads from Ravensdale will be in the Racine Art Museum’s polymer clay collection. Elise Winter’s and her dedicated team of volunteers have worked endless hours to create a place for polymer clay in the museums around the country. This is an amazing step for polymer clay!<\/p>\n

You can help make the permanent polymer clay collection at the RAM\u00a0a reality by donating to the fundraising for the project. For more information go to Polymer Art Archive <\/a>and read all about it.\u00a0 In addition to this latest post – go back and check out some of the previous posts about putting the collection together. Fascinating!<\/p>\n

Kudos to everyone in our community who is\u00a0working so hard to place polymer in museum settings. It helps legitimize the medium for\u00a0all of us – artists, crafters, hobbyists, and professionals.<\/p>\n

\"crafty-goat\"<\/a>I am working on a photo tutorial covering the basics of the original Watercolor Technique. It will\u00a0also \u00a0include some tips and\u00a0new ideas for making\u00a0more variations of the\u00a0pivot beads. In the meantime, check out a review of the book by CraftyGoat.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This pivot bead strand is up on tricksy_gnome’s Flickr site.\u00a0 A beautiful combination of colors! The idea for the pivot beads came when I started using canes as the underlayer for\u00a0my watercolor technique. The original watercolor beads were made for the silent auction at the second Ravensdale conference in 1998. Lindly and I were teaching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polymer-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}