Deb Tuchsen - Rengalsa (Renaissance Gal of San Antonio)

From San Antonio, Texas comes Deb Tuchsen. She is an amazing artist with a knowledge of many different mediums, but her polymer clay art is so unique and different.



She is a true artist having a love also for drawing and photography. One of her areas of expertise is portraiture - taking people's family photos and making drawings or paintings for a family heirloom.



Her polymer clay work involves customizing canes for beads for school and college jewelry and custom face canes. The school and college jewelry has her own design of a school or college logo in the school colors and many of the designs are used for fund-raising purposes. You can contact her to discuss a custom order at http://www.rengalsa.etsy.com/.
She also makes adorable face canes which she turns into wonderful jewelry. The face canes are intricate, detailed canes with varying skin tones and hair colors - some even with mustaches! They are so true-to-life and would make a beautiful custom gift for mothers, grandmothers, or teachers.

Christi of Rivervalleydesign

I promised myself I would start promoting my guild members on my blog and the first person I chose is Christi of Rivervalleydesign. Christi lives in Michigan. She has the most unique and beautiful pendants. She shows how very diverse polymer clay is as an art medium and is truly a great artist. You can see more of her outstanding work at http://www.rivervalleydesign.etsy.com/.

Transfer Focal Bead

Here's a new style focal bead I'm working on with transfers. This will be the center or focal point of a new necklace.

Crochet Hooks Covered with Flowers

Here's a new item in my shop at Etsy - polymer clay covered crochet hooks. They are really fun to make and I have already sold a few.

Please help the people of Haiti

Such a devasting event for these poor people. You can make a contribution to the American Red Cross and be sure that your money will get to Haiti. Let's help them in any way we can.

Some new work

After watching Lynne Ann Schwarzenberg's (Riverpoetdesigns) new DVD three times, I decided to give it a try. What she does with clay is absolutely amazing. She makes it look so very easy and believe me, it's not. I doubt anyone will come close to her beautiful flowers and placement on her pendants. There's a lot of room for improvement, but I'm working on it.

Georgia O'Keeffe Necklace

This is my challenge entry for the October Challenge of the Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy. We had to pick our favorite artist and design something around their art. I chose Georgia O'Keeffe and added Kambaba jasper rounds and tubes and highlighted it with yellow magnesite. I just found out this was accepted into the Customer Gallery at www.turquoisemagpie.com.