Hi clayers! My first tutorial video on youtube got 1160 hits in under a week! Thank you!
The next vid will be about caning. We'll be making the cane seen here and part two will show how to make the reversible necklace.
We're shooting 10/20 and 10/21 so the tutorial should be available by 10/26.
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Clay on, my friends!
That's a photo of my Polyclay Idol, Christi Friesen, givin' the love to Old Pandora. Ms. Friesen gave me another gift that day and I want to pay or forward to my students.
Christi Friesen is one of the top polyclay artists in the world. And I mean WORLD. This is what she told me:
"Spend the same amount of time promoting your art as you do creating it."
See me hitting my forehead with my palm? (And, no, I don't need a V8.)
For the last five years I've insulated myself in a blanket of inspired productivity like Whistler's Mother on Redbull. I've made hundreds of pieces with NO plan on how to sell them. I must have been thinking people would line my block, frantically searching for my tiny home, asking each neighbor, "is Pandora there?"
So now I put the clay on a high shelf, sit down at my keyboard and work. I show my art to people who want to see it. I write about it.
It's not easy though. Every artist would rather create art than create buzz. But what success is easy? Marketing is work.
I'm an avid reader of biographies; and guess what? The common denominator of everyone from Ghandi to Gaga is gigantic heapin'
mountainous piles of work.
What a concept.
