days in the life of an art jewelry creator
Posted in Colors and Shapes, Out and About, artists on Oct 31st, 2008
On the day before All Hallows’ Even, I spent the afternoon with a friend at Stanford’s Cantor Center for the Arts. We viewed the exhibit of Diebenkorn drawings and paintings of Santa Cruz Island. Santa Cruz Island is one of the Channel Islands off the coast of CA. Also on exhibit were contemporary glass pieces, [...]
Posted in processes on Oct 26th, 2008
I’m loving the book “The Colouring, Bronzing and Patination of Metals” by Richard Hughes and Michael Rowe. (Click on the title to see the book.) Since I’m more of a “thanks for the suggested starting point” type of person, for the most part I’m using the endless patina recipes in the book as a very [...]
Posted in Out and About on Oct 26th, 2008
Sunny Cove, Santa Cruz, CA Hungry for Hawaiian?
Posted in Colors and Shapes on Oct 25th, 2008
Posted in processes on Oct 22nd, 2008
I’m pretty pleased with the pomegranates that rose out of the 22 gauge copper sheet brought to my first Chasing and Repousse’ workshop! Davide Biggazzi is an excellent instructor, and yes – he did a small bit of the work on this piece. Nothing like working directly on the piece to show the technique when [...]
Emanuela Duca has some very nice pieces of jewelry on her site. Clicking the title of this post will take you to her site. Back to work! For the upcoming SFBASCG meeting in Los Gatos, I’m preparing a patina demo on brass, copper, and silver. I enjoyed experimenting with different materials last year when I gave a patination demo for [...]