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Polymer clay/other materials

What Box? Five Ideas for Innovative Approaches to your Creative Business

August 17, 2010

WHAT BOX?

> Five ideas for innovative approaches
to your creative business
Last week I offered my email list a free 7-page booklet “FOCUS”
Most of this email talked about you, me, creative coaching, and four places that I had opening up in my schedule for individual work with me.
The email below was typical of those I [...]

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Friday Studio Update 3.19.10

March 20, 2010

We had two(!) blizzards this week. Power to modems was off yesterday.
Pictures below.
You’ll love this. My Six Directions book is starting to come together.
It’s a guidebook for you on creative action.
After years of working with people in classes and individually, this is coming together in a form that I hope will be quite accessible and [...]

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Friday Studio Update 3.12.10

March 13, 2010

This Friday’s summary of my studio week. Always lots to show you, but these are the pieces at my front door for you to see.
What a week, full of activity and change. My ongoing mokume gane series have transformed into fresh spring colors and patterns.  No silver on these, just polymer. Felt like I was [...]

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Art and Life in Santa Fe

March 10, 2010

I’m Tory Hughes. Nice to have you visit!
This site is about creativity, what I do with my creative actions, and what life is like here in Santa Fe. There are links to other sites here too. Enjoy!
I am an artist, teacher and creative coach.
I make art jewelry and sculptural objects using polymer and mixed media.
My [...]

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Friday Studio Update 3.5.10

March 6, 2010

Fridays bring an end-of-the-week summary to studio days.
Spring has swept into my Santa Fe studio, and settled in. I’m immersed in metalworking, new color palettes, and a compulsion to create forms inhabiting a different relationship to gravity. This week I made brooches.

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New Classes + Great Price for 2010!

March 4, 2010

Hello you creative minds!
Lots of news from Santa Fe; in this post-
Five Directions to enhance your creativity, and a class Fee Reduction for 2010 to introduce them!

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Playing Around

August 7, 2009

Today’s territory:
Playing around.
Playing with your projects, experimenting.
Are these not your projects?
Playing, as in: “who knows?’, “what if?”, “uh, I could ”
and  “well, there’s this” “and that”…
Your challenge for today is to go play with a project.
Go forth into all your stuff, whatever it is- art materials, words on a screen, your yard, your business.
Do one thing [...]

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Available Resources

July 25, 2009

Today’s territory:
The material world, all around you.
When you create, you change your idea into a physical form.
All physical materials can be part of your idea’s form.
Everything is available.
Everything is raw material.
The whole world wants to be part of your art project.
Look at what you do when you make something. You rearrange the current selection of [...]

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Heads-up Belt Sanders On Sale

June 21, 2009

Today we are in special territory,
Belt Sanders on Sale!
If you like power tools, and especially if you do my imitative techniques, like making jade, agate, ivory and turquoise, you already know know you need a belt sander. Here you go!
This is not any kind of sponsored ad, just a heads-up-
Roberta Nevitt here in my Snow [...]

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Blossoming

May 5, 2009

Elise WInters – Red Ruffle Ruche Neckpiece

Today’s territory:
One special person,
one special blog
Elise Winters
visible in this issue of Ornament,
and other places.
Polymer Art Archives
Also: A small hiccup was had last week when my computer crashed.
(Not a Mac problem…go figure, iced tea is not compatible with laptops)
But we are both back, and glad to be chatting with you.
Last [...]

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