Noadi's Lensography

Art Lenses 

My lenses featuring my artwork.

Noadi's Art Fantasy and Cephalopod Jewelry Designs

Noadi's Art fantasy jewelry designs make great holiday gifts for Halloween, Christmas, or any other special occation.  Get them for the people in your life who like things a little creepy or whimsical.

Noadi's Art on Etsy

Noadi's Art has been selling online for a while now but hadn't yet ventured onto the biggest handmade marketplace online until now. Come check out the new Etsy shop! So what does Noadi's Art sell? I sell handmade polymer clay and mixed media sculptu...

Noadi's Art on CafePress

Since my sculptures are all one of a kind creations I can't just make copies. So if you love my artwork you can get Noadi's Art on a t-shirt to wear! They looks great when paired up with my jewelry too!

Fantasy and Animal Sculpture by Noadi's Art

Noadi's Art is my little world of fantasy art.  Mainly I'm a sculptor though I do dabble in other mediums.  Fantasy gives me such a range of subjects to explore so I've sculpted everything from fairies to gods to octopuppies in jars. ...

Handmade Business Lenses 

Branding Your Handmade Products

Learn about building a brand as an indie artist or designer. Branding helps create an image for you and your business. It helps generate repeat business and word of mouth which is so important for small business.

Preparing for an Art or Craft Festival

Art and craft festivals are a lot of work but worth it for the exposure you get and the great people you meet. Here is a guide to preparing for a show and having a great time. Oh yeah, and did I mention selling your creations?

Running a Handmade Business

So you're an artist, designer, or craftsperson and want to take your first steps into making money from your talent and skills? This lens is full of advice for anyone starting a handmade business.

Make your Handmade Products Stand Out! Using Creative Packaging

There are some easy and creative ways to make your handmade products different from the rest at festivals or shows and make a special surprise for customers ordering your products. This lens is all about using creative packaging to make your creation...

Using Squidoo to Promote Your Handmade Business

Squidoo is a great, easy way for anyone selling handmade items to promote their creations. Display your knitting, painting, sculpting, jewelry making, etc. and generate more visits (and hopefully sales) on your website or webstore.

More Handmade Business Lenses 

Tools for Etsy Sellers

Etsy is the biggest online marketplace devoted to selling handmade products. Here is a collection of tips and tools for Etsy sellers to help their productivity and success.

Using Twitter to Promote your Handmade Products

Twitter is a platform for sending short messages (140 characters) out to people who 'follow' you. You can use Twitter to build relationships with other people who share your interests and promote your handmade business. This lens is all about how to...

Selling Handmade Jewelry Online

The internet gives jewelry artisans so many new opportunities to sell their work and reach a far larger number of people. This lens gives an overview of things to consider before selling your jewelry online.

Etsy Sellers: What is your favorite way to promote your shop?

If you could give one tip to other Etsy sellers on how to promote their new shop what would it be? Here's your chance to share that tip here and with the Twitterverse.

Sculpting Tutorial Lenses 

Building Armatures for Polymer Clay Sculpture

Armatures are vital to strong sculptures. Learn about different methods for building strong armatures. A strong armature can hold polymer clay in virtually any complicated or precarious position, even look like it's floating in air.

Polymer Clay Sculpting Tips and Tutorials

Polymer clay is a wonderful medium for sculpture. You can create one of a kind sculptures without the need for an expensive kiln or messy mold materials. You can create everything from very simple animals made from basic shapes to detailed, complex,...

Introduction to Sculpting in Polymer Clay

I have many lenses here on Squidoo about sculpting in polymer clay but none that really give a good overview of what you need to get started. This lens is about the essential information you need to get started sculpting in polymer clay, then you can...

Painting Polymer Clay Sculptures

Polymer clay comes in a rainbow of colors but some projects can be greatly improved by a little paint or other surface treatment. Popular techniques for painting sculpture include brushing on acrylic, airbrushing, and using powdered pigments to crea...

Techniques for Curing Polymer Clay

No subject in polymer clay has more controversy than how to best cure polymer clay. This lens gives an over view of the main techniques used.

More Sculpting Tutorial Lenses 

Using Liquid Polymer Clay

Liquid Polymer Clay is a fairly new medium, only being around for a few years now. However in a few short years artists and crafters have found hundreds of ways to use this new medium.

Polymer Clay Sculpting Tools

I'm absolutely addicted to getting new sculpting tools, both buying and making them. If you need some help deciding on what tools you need to get started or want to make some of your own keep reading.

All About Polymer Clay

A collection of websites, books, and other resources full of great information about polymer clay. Whether you're already have experience with polymer clay or are just starting out, these resources will have something for you.

Creating with Cold Porcelain

Make delicate creations using this easy to make homemade air dry clay. Cold porcelain dries to a beautiful and durable finish perfect for making tiny flowers and other miniatures.

Paper Mache as an Art Medium

Paper Mache requires few tools, simple materials, and recycles old paper into art. Now we associate it with children's school projects but paper mache started out as and remains a medium for fine art. Read on to learn more about this great medium (an...

Molding and Casting Lenses 

Basics of Casting Sculpture

So you've got your molds ready now it's time to cast some sculpture. This lens is all about how to cast your sculptures using a variety of materials, polymer clay, plaster, resin, porcelain, and more.

Making Molds of Polymer Clay Sculpture

The wonderful thing about polymer clay is that you can create one of a kind sculpture with it but sometimes you might want to make copies of a sculpture. For that you need to make a mold and then cast in a material like resin, plaster, or porcelain....

Craft Lenses 

Cephalopod Craft Patterns

Make your own stuffed octopus, squid, and cuttlefish. Free crochet, knit, and sewing patterns for cephalopods (and a few other sea creatures thrown in).

Making Your Own Recycled Yarn

Make cool stuff and help the Earth at the same time. If you like to knit, crochet, or any other yarn craft have a go at using recycled materials. You can make your own yarn using plastic bags, thrift store sweaters, scraps, and t-shirts.

Creative Uses for LED Lights

LEDs are energy efficient, long lived lights that can be used for hundred if not thousands of uses. This lens is all about the lighter side of LEDs, building creative projects using these great little lights.

Squidoo Lenses 

Giant Squid Greeters

A Giant Squid Greeter is a champion and a go between for The Giant Squids on Squidoo. We celebrate the current Giants, champion potential Giants and establish relationships with and recruit potential Giants. We're always on the lookout for lensmaster...

Squidoodling with Noadi

By squidlings of course I mean my lenses. This lens is my way of keeping track of my lens stats, sharing tips, and other fun Squidoo stuff.

Custom Lenses Designed by Noadi

Squidoo is a great platform to promote anything you want, your business, online store, charity or other organization. Squidoo can help you drive traffic to your site, sell your products, or inform people about you. I can build you a great lens (or t...

Noadi's Art Tutorial Lensography

I've written a number of tutorials both here on Squidoo and elsewhere. Most are about sculpting but there are also a few for drawing, painting, and all artists.

Art Events Lenses 

Norway Sidewalk Art Show in Norway, Maine

The Norway Sidewalk Art Show is the largest art show in western Maine. Featuring over 100 artists, along with entertainers and food booths. It's a fun event for art lovers, families, and anyone else.

The Shy, Novice, and Closeted Art Show in Bethel, ME

The Shy, Novice, and Closeted Art Show is all about celebrating artists who are just starting out, a little unsure of themselves, or who don't otherwise have time to do shows. The artists displaying their work range from highschool students up to ret...

Tutorial Lenses 

My educational lenses.

Taking Successful Photos of your Artwork for your Website Gallery

If you're an artist you need to present your artwork to it's best effect on your website. You can hire a professional photographer to photograph your work and you'll get beautiful results but it's expensive. Taking your own photographs that look grea...

Resources for Animal Artists

Unlike with humans it can sometimes be impossible to work from life with many animals especially exotic wildlife so reference photos are a must.  Also as with all art based on life a good grasp of the anatomy is important.  I've compiled a...

Displaying your Artwork on YouTube

I've recently been experimenting with creating videos to display my artwork. Not only does it give me a new source of traffic to my website Noadi's Art but also is a lot of fun.

Resources for Figure Artists

This lens has the best reference sources for figure artists as I've found so far, from poses to anatomy to hands and feet.  I've compiled it for anyone who loves to create artwork portraying the human figure, whether you draw, sculpt, or paint I...

Feature Focus Lenses 

Concentrating on specific features

Feature Focus: Sculpting Hands

Many sculptors, even very talented ones, have trouble sculpting hands. They are one of the most complex features of the body to sculpt. This lens can't make sculpting hands easy or teach you overnight, but it will give you a good overview of the anat...

Feature Focus: Sculpting Anatomy

This lens is a compilation of the figure sculpting lenses I've put together.

Feature Focus: Sculpting Feet

Second to hands and the face, feet are one of the areas sculptors often have trouble with. Like hands they are very complex appendages with lots of bones and are very mobile.

Feature Focus: Sculpting Eyes

Welcome to the first in a series of lenses about sculpting specific features. Eyes portray much of the emotion in a sculpture and are where you first focus when looking at a face. So come learn about the anatomy of the eye, sculpting, using glass eye...

Cephalopod Jewelry Lenses 

Squid Jewelry by Noadi's Art

After I was asked to create a custom squid necklace I was so happy with the results that I decided to add it to my growing collection of cephalopod jewelry. I now cover the 3 largest groups of cephalopods with my cuttlefish, octopus, and the new squi...

Cuttlefish Jewelry by Noadi's Art

Sculpted polymer clay cuttlefish jewelry designed by artist Sheryl Westleigh. Cute and cuddly cephalopods. All of Noadi's Art cuttlefish are sculpted, painted and assembled by hand.

Octopus Jewelry by Noadi's Art

After making my cuttlefish jewelry for some time I decided to expand the cephalopod jewelry line in octopus. These cute little tentacled necklaces and earrings are in much the same style as my cuttlefish and the two lines go well together.

Project Lenses 

Sculpted Gargoyle Jewelry

Gargoyles have been around since at least the Middle Ages as large carved or cast creatures on building. These gargoyles have been shrunk down to a wearable size, each is a one of a kind polymer clay creation.

Perma-Pet Sculptures by Noadi's Art

Perma-Pets are one of a kind mixed media sculptures by artist Sheryl Westleigh. Each pet is sculpted from polymer clay, painted, then suspended in clear acrylic resin. Noadi's Art creates threekinda of Perma-Pets, Cuddlefish, Octopuppies, and Nudibra...

Trilobite Jewelry by Noadi's Art

I've been fascinated by fossils since I was a little kid, I even have a small collection. Of all fossils those of trilobites have always attracted me the most so I've sculpted a line of trilobite inspired jewelry using polymer clay, glass cab...

eCrater Tutorial Lenses 

How to use eCrater.com

Using eCrater RSS Feeds

Every eCrater store have multiple rss feeds available. Learn how to use these RSS feeds to promote your store items on other websites such as Squidoo, Zimbio, and blogs.

How to Start Selling on eCrater

eCrater.com is a free webstore service that is easy to set up and charges no fees for standard services. ECrater is easy to learn and is a perfect solution for anyone brand new to selling online but is also robust and efficient for experienced online...

How to Use the eCrater Shipping Matrix and other Shipping Options

One of the most frequent questions asked about using eCrater is how to set up shipping. This lens explains the different options and how to use them.

Promoting your Shop with eCrater Widgets

Widgets are a fairly new feature from eCrater for promoting your products. Give them a try and get more exposure for your shop.

eCrater Shop Features 

Ooak Artists on eCrater.com

eCrater.com is a free web store marketplace. Sellers can easily set up a store in a short time. Here you can find ooak (one of a kind) artists who have store on eCrater.com selling their beautiful creations.

Artisan Jewelry on eCrater.com

Here you can find jewelry artists selling their beaded, wire wrapped, and polymer clay creations on eCrater. All the stores featured here sell original handmade jewelry. eCrater.com is a free web store marketplace. Sellers can easily set up a store...

Recipe Lenses 

Great Sour Pickle Recipes

The more sour the better as far as I'm concerned when it comes to pickles. I also love to make my own but sometimes I don't want to go through the hassle of canning so instead I make refrigerator pickles. This is especially good when you only have a...

Dilly Beans - Pickled Green Beans

Dilly beans are dill pickled green beans. This recipe is for the spicy dilly beans that I make using the fresh green beans I grow in my garden. They are incredibly tasty, especially on salad, in tomato juice, on their own as a snack.

Needhams - Maine's Favorite Candy

Needhams are a traditional potato candy for Mainers. They are especially popular during the holidays and just about everyone has a recipe. The base for the filling is actually mashed potatoes!

Sheryl's Special Parmesan Meatballs: The Best Meatball Recipe Ever

This meatball recipe is full of flavor and is perfect for spaghetti, homemade meatball subs, or as an appetizer. So read on for how to make the best meatballs ever!

Book Lenses 

The Prose Edda

Snorri Sturluson wrote the Prose Edda as a guide for Icelandic poets so they would not lose knowledge of the styles and stories told in traditional poetry. His book has become one of the greatest works (along with the Poetic Edda) letting us view the...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The most wholly entertaining book never to come out of the great publishing houses of Ursa Minor.

Where to Find Free eBooks Online

Need something to read? Don't feel like going to the library or bookstore. Check out some of these links for free eBooks to download. All these links are completely legal, no pirated copies. Some of these are .pdf files, will need a copy of the free...

Squidpunk - Literature of the Cephalopod

Come celebrate the literature of the cephalopod! Short stories and poetry about our tentacled friends.

Where to Find Free Audio Books Online

There are a number of sites online which provide free audiobooks for download and many more with podcasts. This lens is to help you get started finding something to listen to.

Author Lenses 

H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft created one of the scariest and most amazing horror mythology with his stories concerning Cthulhu, the Elder Ones, and others.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Prior to Geoffrey Chaucer most literature in England was written in French or Latin. Chaucer proved that vernacular English could be just as great a vehicle for literature.

Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell was one of the most brilliant scholars in America studying and teaching about mythology, folklore and comparative religion.

Jules Verne

Verne's Voyages Extraordinaire take us from the depths of the sea with Captain Nemo to the center or the earth to all the way to the moon.

Writing Lenses 

All About Noadi's Art Blog

Noadi's Art Blog is the journal of sculptor and jewelry designer Sheryl Westleigh. It chronicles her polymer clay and mixed media creations, sculptors who inspire her, useful sculpting resources, and the art business.

Sheryl Westleigh's Associated Content Articles

Associated Content publishes my articles and even pays me for them. It's a fun way to make a few dollars. It's almost as fun as Squidoo!

Animal Lenses 

Lauren the Llama - Follow Along with First Time Llama Owners

Lauren is a sweet female gelding llama my family recently rescued. He was kept in awful filthy conditions and not given proper care. It will take months if not longer to repair the damage done, this lens is meant to chronicle that process.

Ammonites - Amazing Fossil Cephalopods

Like the modern Nautilus these relatives of the squid and octopus had beautiful spiraled shells and swam backwards. Also among the most common marine fossils ammonites are a wonderful way to start exploring what fossils can tell us about evolution an...

I Love Cephalopods

I'm fascinated by all sea creatures but in particular cephalopods give me endless inspiration for my artwork.  So this lens is all about my love of tentacled animals.

Cuttlefish : The Greatest Cephalopods Ever

Squid, octopus, cuttlefish, nautilus, along with several extinct varieties make up the cephalopods. Cephalopods are the smartest of all invertebrates and with their tentacles and color changing skin they are soem of the strangest creatures in the sea...

Nigerian Dwarf Goats - Cute and Friendly Miniature Goats

Nigerian dwarf goats are a miniature goat breed. They're hardy, friendly, and utterly adorable. Their friendly dispositions and compact size makes them perfect for small farm, 4H, and as pets.

More Animal Lenses 

Raising Barred Rock Laying Hens

I'm raising Barred Rock hens this year to have fresh eggs once they are grown. I've raised chickens before, mostly bantams as pets and a few broilers for meat. Egg prices have increased by around 40% in the last year, raising your own laying hens ca...

Raising Pheasants for the First Time

My family is raising pheasants for the first time this year. We've raised chickens before but this is a little different. Come follow along with our experiences.

The Perplexing Platypus

I find the platypus totally fascinating. It's one of the few remaining monotremes, a very ancient evolutionary line of egg laying mammals. At the same time having both very primitive and very novel and advanced featured. Just an amazing animal.

Science Lenses 

Fun Science - How to Grow Crystals

Crystals are a fascinating natural phenomenon and you can with a little time and effort grow some at home. Great for teaching kids about chemistry and geology it's also fun, even for adults. Most of these methods require only commonly found househol...

Fun Science - World in Pond Water

Explore microscopic life in a local pond, marsh, or stream. A cup of water can contain millions of microorganisms.

Science Lover's Gift Guide

I'm a science geek, so I love looking for cool science related stuff. I'm also an artist and jewelry maker so I want to support other creative people as well. This guide is a compilation of cool science related gifts that I've found, many of them als...

Misc. Lenses 

World Record Breaking Snow Woman In Bethel, ME: The Biggest Snow Woman Ever

She is 122 feet 1 inch tall, 13,000,000 lbs, and beautiful. Meet Olympia SnowWoman, the world record breaking snow woman named for Maine's senator Olympia Snowe.

Norse Mythology: Odin's Runesong

I'm fascinated by mythology, not surprisingly for a fantasy artist.  One of my favorite stories is from Norse mythology.  Odin sacrifices himself on the world tree Yggdrasil in order to learn the secret of the runes.

The Cabinet of Curiosities

During the Victorian era Cabinets of Curiosity were all the rage. They collected natural specimens, fossils, artifacts, and oddities. Take a peak into that world.

Artist SquidWho 

Brian Froud

From beautifully illustrated books like Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book and Good Fairies/Bad Fairies to concept art for the movies the Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, Brian Froud is one of the most talented and prolific fantasy illustrators out ther...

Gian Lorenzo Bernini - The Great Sculptor of the Baroque

Gian Lorenzo Bernini was one of the sculptural geniuses of history.  His personal life and rivalry with Boromini was as exciting and famous as his sculpture and architecture.

Noadi: Biography

Noadi is the alter ego of fantasy artist Sheryl Westleigh.  She creates detailed sculpture in polymer clay and mixed media.  Everything from satyrs and mermaids to turtles and octopuppies.

Movie and TV Lenses 

We love the Dark Crystal

A world of gentle Mystics and evil Skeksis. The two Gelflings Kira and Jen caught in the middle of everything trying to heal the Dark Crystal.

We love Hellboy II: The Golden Army

In the sequel to Hellboy, Guillermo del Toro takes us into the world of faerie. Don't mistake these fairies and elves for the nice, sweet, creatures of modern books and movies, these are more like the fairies of celtic folklore brought into the moder...

Fawlty Towers is the Greatest Show with John Cleese

Fawlty Towers is the Greatest Show with John Cleese Monty Python gets all the attention but for absolute British comedy genius from John Cleese you must watch Fawlty Towers.

Guillermo Del Toro

Guillermo del Toro is one of the most talented and creative directors out there right now.  His films create some of the strangest and most beautiful worlds you'll ever see.

SquidWho Fictional Characters 

Cthulhu

Cthulhu is H.P. Lovecraft's most famous and enduring creation.  The Great Old One is a massive ancient creature, the reach of his tentacles from R'lyeh should be feared by all mankind.

Wallace - Animated Inventor

Along with his faithful (and brainy) dog Gromit, Wallace has starred in 3 Academy Award winning stop motion films.

Gromit the Faithful Companion of Wallace

Gromit is the silent long suffering dog of Wallace a sweet if slightly crazy inventor of cracking contraptions. Together they have starred in three 30-minute short films, ten 3-minute shorts, and a feature length film, in the process they won many aw...

Red Green - The Leader of Possum Lodge

Meet the leader of Possum Lodge, your hero and mine, Red Green! Fearlessly wielding his roll of duct tape.

Fictional Detective Lenses 

Philip Marlowe

Raymond Chandler's philosophical private detective. Philip Marlowe solves mysteries on his own terms.

The Shadow

The Shadow was the most popular radio show in history. Come explore his world.

Miss Marple

Miss Jane Marple, an unassuming old lady is one of the greatest detectives in mystery fiction.

Sam Spade

Dashiell Hammett in only a handful of stories created one of the most enduring detectives in literature. The Maltese Falcon made Sam Spade one of the most famous detectives in fiction.

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Richard Diamond started on radio with Dick Powell as the singing, joke making, frequently pummeled private detective. He's one of the most unique and entertaining detective during the Golden Age of Radio.

Fictional Crime and Criminal Lenses 

Professor Moriarty

Even though he only appears directly in a single short story by Sir Arthurs Conan Doyle, Professor Moriarty was Sherlock Holmes' greatest nemesis. A criminal mastermind as intelligent or more so that Holmes.

A.J. Raffles

Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's brother-in-law E.W.Hornung's A.J. Raffles in a gentleman thief. After being strapped for cash once he committed his first burglary and kept at it afterwards with the help of his friend and chronicler Bunny Manders.

Suspense! Classic Radio Show

These radio shows are guaranteed to leave you in Suspense! Suspense was one of the most popular radio shows of all time running for 20 years.

Boston Blackie

Starting out as a burglar and jewel thief over time Boston Blackie evolved into a private detective. The Boston Blackie Radio shows are some of the most entertaining with Blackie constantly one upping the police and Inspector Farraday in particular.

Arsène Lupin

Arsene Lupin was created by french author Maurice LeBlanc in the early 20th century, the same time that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective was solving crimes. Lupin was a master of disguise, a sense of humor that at times is a bit twisted, and...

Music Lenses 

Flogging Molly

Flogging Molly combines the best of celtic music and punk rock.

Rent the Musical and the Movie

Based on the opera 'La Boheme' Rent is the story of young artists living in New York in the early 90s. Dealing with relationships, AIDs, and trying to survive in the city. It's one of the most amazing Broadway musicals in recent history.

My Groups 

Resources for Selling on eCrater Headquarters

Resources for Selling on eCrater This group is all about sharing information and tips for selling on eCrater. You can add any eCrater related lens to this group, but I will only add eCrater tutorial and resource lenses to the featured lenses on this p...

Mythology and Folklore Headquarters

Mythology and Folklore All lenses related to mythology, folklore, legends, and fairy tales. Go ahead and add your!

Sculptors and Sculpture Headquarters

Sculptors and Sculpture This is a group for all artists and art lovers interested in all forms of sculpture. Whether it is clay, paper, metal, or mixed media.

All Things Cephalopod Headquarters

All Things Cephalopod If it's about cephalopods (nautilus, octopus, squid, cuttlefish, and the extinct species like ammonites) it deserves a place in the this group. Submit your factual lenses, cephalopod art or stories and so one.

More Groups 

Noadi's Projects Headquarters

Noadi's Projects Group of lenses about my various projects, sculpture, jewelry, writing, etc. This isn't an exhaustive list of my lenses, just my personal projects. For a full list of my lenses check out my Lensography

Resources for Handmade Businesses Headquarters

Resources for Handmade Businesses If you sell your artwork, handmade jewelry, crafts, etc. you need to think of yourself as a business. This group is all about lenses that help creative people run their business. This group is open to any lens with...

Sculpting Tutorials Headquarters

Sculpting Tutorials Lenses about how to sculpt in any medium, polymer clay, water clay, wire, wood, or stone.

The Golden Age of Radio Headquarters

The Golden Age of Radio Old-Time Radio (OTR) and the Golden Age of Radio refer to a period of radio programming lasting from the proliferation of radio broadcasting in the early 1920s until television's replacement of radio as the dominant home enter...