days in the life of an art jewelry creator
Posted in Metal Art Exhibitions, Out and About, Shows on Nov 30th, 2009
Lately I’ve become aware of two community galleries that deal mostly in wall hung art that would like to start actively representing other types of artists because they feel smaller art sells more often. They have come to realize that people change their wearable art more often than their wall hangings and thus wearable art [...]
Posted in Galleries, Inspirations, Metal Art Exhibitions, processes on Nov 24th, 2009
Last Sunday I spent a couple of hours as a show docent at the ACCI Gallery in Berkeley, California. My piece “The Earth is Our Ashtray” Ashtray is in the show along with the work of over 40 artists from the Metal Arts Guild based in San Francisco. I was very pleased when a friendly [...]
Posted in random on Nov 21st, 2009
Edith Sommers recently shared her use of radiator parts in a lecture at the November meeting of the Metal Arts Association of Silicon Valley. She kindly brought many examples of radiators, fins from radiators, and pieces she has created with radiator fins. Edith thoroughly cleans her donated radiators before creating her wearable radiator art. Edith [...]
Posted in New Designs, processes on Nov 19th, 2009
In the five-ish years since I made a certain filigree component, I forgot which gauge wires I used. I also forgot that I’d annealed several times during the process, an oversight which was easily remedied after the small twisted strands broke a few times and I spent a few seconds thinking about it. Turns out [...]
Posted in Inspirations, Shows on Nov 3rd, 2009
Ideas born a year and a half apart come together this week. When I painted a large ceramic globe bead with fine silver as a class exercise, I wondered to myself what I’d eventually do with it. The bead came out of the kiln looking like the earth would after we’ve caused some serious damage. [...]
Posted in Publications on Nov 2nd, 2009
The 2010 San Francisco Bay Area Metal Clay guild calendar showcases a sample of the works by fourteen local artists. If you’d like to purchase a copy, Lynn Cobb has them for sale on her site. Of the $18, $2 goes straight to the guild to help pay for meeting costs. Lynn did a great [...]
Posted in Out and About on Nov 1st, 2009
As the motorcycle racing season ends, here’s a look back at the US Grand Prix event at Laguna Seca, California this past July. First up are a couple of pictures of a scorpion sculpture made from parts Spain’s Danny Pedrosa (1st place) and Mallorca’s Jorge Lorenzo (3rd place) celebrate on the podium with Valentino Rossi [...]