days in the life of an art jewelry creator
Posted in Out and About, environment on Aug 19th, 2010
Luck As I was taking video of the coral encrusted lava surfaces underwater, a fish swam very closely past my left shoulder chased by a moray eel. Luckily the camera was already recording video. Slowing the video down and looking carefully, I see the white line on the tail of the moray and the bars [...]
Posted in Out and About, processes on Jul 2nd, 2010
I had some oxygen free copper and fine silver parts that a friend’s local company deemed scrap. While I waited for clear nail polish (a masking method) to dry on my niobium bracelets, I decided to electrolytically anodize the oxygen free copper and silver parts. I kept part of the fine silver piece out of [...]
Posted in Out and About on Jun 23rd, 2010
2010 marks the bicentennial of the unification of the Hawaiian Islands by King Kamehameha, and the de Young museum in San Francisco hosted a celebration on June 11th. A chorus sang Hawaiian songs, a photographer showed pictures taken on the islands, and the highlight of the event was a performance by a Hawaiian dance group. Before [...]
Posted in Out and About, processes on May 31st, 2010
Turquoise prospector and metalsmith Dayton Simmons was in the SF Bay Area recently and gave a presentation about turquoise to the Metal Arts Guild. Thanks to him, I now know that the name comes from a long ago mistake in thinking the stones arriving in Europe were from Turkey, and that most turquoise comes from [...]
Posted in Out and About on May 20th, 2010
Tuesday my good friend, and filigree mentor Yehuda Tassa, and I went out on the roads of the Santa Cruz Mountains to watch parts of the Amgen Tour of California. Tunitas Creek Road is the first part of Stage 3′s mountain segments. The riders look as if the first part of the road is easy for them. Some of [...]
Posted in Out and About on Apr 6th, 2010
We used to love visiting and viewing the art at the Mexican Museum at San Francisco’s Fort Mason. The museum has been closed for the last few years while a new location is built to house the expansive collection. A portion of the collection was recently on display in the Palo Alto Art Center. Sculptural, [...]
Posted in Colors and Shapes, Out and About on Apr 4th, 2010
Orange poppies were mixed in with the tulips and yellow poppies at the Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden In addition to the tulips and poppies, there were other flowers which were good subjects with the macro lens.
Posted in Colors and Shapes, Out and About on Apr 2nd, 2010
Tulips at the Golden Gate Park’s Queen Wilhemina Tulip Garden were accompanied by generous plantings of poppies. All phases of the bloom were evident I enjoyed taking these before, during, and after-the-bloom photos
Posted in Colors and Shapes, Out and About on Mar 31st, 2010
After visiting the Cartier and America exhibit, we stopped by Golden Gate Park‘s Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden. After knowing about the garden for a few years, I am happy that I remembered it during tulip season.
Posted in Metal Art Exhibitions, Out and About on Mar 29th, 2010
Yesterday Pat Accorinti and I made an early morning visit to the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco for a Metal Arts Guild organized private tour of the Cartier and America exhibit. Our group had a 30 minute head start on other museum visitors. Our enthusiastic docent shared a lot of good [...]