days in the life of an art jewelry creator
Posted in random on Jan 31st, 2010
Now that’s what a processor fan is supposed to look like! That is not what the thermal grease between the processor fan and the CPU are supposed to look like And, eeewww, that’s what the processor fan did look like before cleaning Maybe now the case on the computer can be closed without the unit [...]
Posted in processes on Jan 25th, 2010
Friends Pat Accorinti, Kathleen Gordon, and I are going to be giving a demo to the local metal clay guild on Feb 21st. The demo will include a hands on session for members to use the new Art Clay World copper clay product. We thought we should try it out first, and here are pics [...]
Posted in processes on Jan 24th, 2010
Chunky is the name I’d started using in my head for the Pileated Woodpecker steel wire sculpture. Looking at Chunky I realized that some quick modifications to the gut could be made with my hands to slim down the sculpture. I bent the connection point between the legs and modified the long line that ran [...]
Posted in Colors and Shapes, processes on Jan 23rd, 2010
During the second day of Thomas Hill’s wire sculpture workshop, we chose a drawing or photo of an animal to use as a reference. Choosing the drawing or photo has a big part to play in the final outcome. If the photo shows the animal at an angle, only shows parts of the animal, or is [...]
Posted in Colors and Shapes, artists, processes on Jan 22nd, 2010
Last Spring I took a weekend wire sculpture workshop from Thomas Hill at Scintillant Studio, and almost completed a wire outline of a piranha skull. I posted a picture of the skull and the work in progress here. A friend of Tom’s had given him a piranha skull they’d found. The skull was one of [...]
“Chi ha paura…?“ means “Who’s afraid…?” in Italian, and is a message about the fear artists have of creating non-traditional contemporary jewelry. If you have a chance to hear Gijs Bakker speak, you’ll enjoy it. He discusses his start in design, the beginnings of droog and Chi ha paura…? and shows pictures from his early [...]
My friend Susan Shahinian was kind enough to give an in depth demonstration of electroforming to the local metal clay guild, her second time doing so. When I saw the first demo I didn’t take many pictures; this time I did. And, I took note of the equipment needed to electroform, so this first post [...]
Posted in Colors and Shapes, Out and About, environment on Jan 16th, 2010
At the beach in all these photos, the sea glass is protected and it’s illegal to collect any. The beach is amazing, sea glass has replaced the sand normally seen on beaches. The tinkling sound of the glass being tumbled is wonderful to hear. The beach is such a treasure that it’s been designated an [...]
Posted in Colors and Shapes, environment on Jan 15th, 2010
In this Mexican harbor I found so many pieces of broken bottle glass that my pockets were full. Notice the high percentage of jagged glass; that means the harbor workers are throwing bottles into the ocean. I’d like to go back in a few years and see how much tumbled sea glass is there and [...]
Posted in Out and About on Jan 14th, 2010
The Seymour Center at Santa Cruz’s Long Marine Lab was the home of the 2009 Santa Cruz Sea Glass Festival I was happy to come across this deck of Sea Glass cards that helps me understand what types of bottles, bowls and other containers some of the sea glass I find probably came from. You [...]