The Elephant by Jon Anderson

Several years ago, when I was still fairly new working with polymer clay, I was coming home from Arizona, killing time at the Phoenix Sky Harbor airport.  I wandered into the gift shop, casually browsing, when I was literally stopped in my tracks by a display of wonderful animals.  I had suddenly realized that these wonderful creatures were covered in tiles of different complex polymer clay canes.  From the whole animal itself, to the masterful arrangement of the tiles, to the astonishing

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When you are introduced to polymer clay, you get a couple of bricks of it, do some reading about how to use it and cure it, make a little project and find it all very interesting.  It’s maybe a couple-hour project.  You’re done and you now feel you know all you need to know.

When you are inducted into polymer clay, you do a little reading first, then a whole bunch of reading more, over days.  Then you buy twenty to forty little bricks and several tools.  You pack a largish box full of whatever you think you may need to learn and master this material over the three day weekend trip at the ocean, that you are embarking on.

Over that three day weekend, you leave the hotel

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