Summertime

• Creamsicle? Dreamsicle?

  Summer, no matter what you call these earrings from Nancy Nearing

• Portland's Guardino Gallery

  27 artists including Wendy Wallin Malinow, Gesine Kratzner and others in the second annual Toy Show

• On the hot seat...my office was pit stain central

  I haven't worked up my courage to watch my zoom presentation to IPCA yet but it was well-attended (thanks). And there's a bonus list of the "best-of" videos on my Vimeo site. You can fast-forward past my ramblings and just hit the highlights

• Before the barber shop

  My son David and his sons are visiting for a couple of weeks. Here David and his step-brother BJ prepare for haircuts with some "before" scans that will be turned into 3D printouts. More pix of my holiday visitors on IG

Fireworks

From Japan and Italy

• Masako Inabe

  Fireworks from a Japanese artist

• Fireworks from Italy

  @cecilia_impastarte

Experiments

• Water-soluble transfer paper and Prismacolor markers for kids art

  Demoed by Sally Kirk (blossomandclay) with Amazon links

• SmartSolve Water-Soluble Translucent Paper

• Shelley Nordman's transfer experiments

  Shelley Nordman has been chatting with Donna Kato about her "dye-sub to baked polymer" experiments. Have a look (via Donna Kato)

Wanderings

• UPPERCASE #54 Abstract art/Abstract thinking

  Flip through the entire current issue (all about abstract thinking and abstract art) at this link. It will have you salivating. This StudioMojo drills down through some of the links we discovered in this gorgeous publication

• Jamaal Eversley

  Following links in Uppercase Magazine, this issue on Abstract Thinking • Not sure they're polymer but you get the idea

• Unit Twelve Gallery

  A mix of media on this sister site (via Uppercase)

• Clare Taylor

  I jumped from Unit Twelve to this link

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