ArtByAud: Art and Creations by Audra Lemke (Polymer Clay, Learning from Tory Hughes)

Polymer Clay Creations: Tory Hughes Style!

Tory Hughes is a master of polymer clay. I really love her style and it's a blast to watch her work. She has a series of videotapes through GamePlan Art Ranch. These necklaces below illustrate some of the beads I created from watching her tapes when I was first learning to use polymer clay. Like Tory, I enjoy making my beads look well-worn and somewhat ancient. To see what you can learn from her tapes, read on...Click on any of the images for a larger version.

(I apologize for the quality of some of these photos. I don't have the right setup yet for taking photos of jewelry and I took these when I had a poor digital camera!)

p.1: Polymer clay creations

p.2: Learning from Tory Hughes *

p.3: Clay-embellished knitting projects

p.4: Polymer Clay Links

I learned a lot about polymer clay by watching videos. I can't claim originality for these two. They are from Tory's Bone and Ivory tape!

I created amber beads with silver wire "staples" from the Amber and Coral tape, then added my own clay and silver bead accessories.

Here's a lapis necklace I made based on the Turquoise and Lapis tape, adding antique gold metal beads.

These beads demonstrate another turquoise variation that Tory teaches on her Turquoise and Lapis tape - Chinese turquoise in a brown and gold matrix.

This is a giant Southwestern turquoise nugget from the Turquoise and Lapis tape with silver bead accessories.

Assorted jade from Tory's Jade tape: the bi-cones have black "impurities".

The last one was carved.

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