days in the life of an art jewelry creator
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 processes on Mar 9th, 2010
When Pat Accorinti floated the idea of creating an alloy with metal clay as a supplement to our demonstration with Mitsubishi’s quick fire copper clay, Kathleen Gordon and I were on board immediately. Pat had read Hadar Jacobson’s blog post about creating an alloy of copper and silver by combining PMC+ with her formulation of [...]
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 processes on Jan 5th, 2009
While watching TV these past couple of weeks, I’ve also been working on some new combinations in knitted wire chain. I tried mixing copper and fine silver wire at the same time, copper only, two strands of fine silver, and increasing and decreasing the size of my loops. I’m seeing a funky bracelet in this [...]
Posted in New Designs, Shows on Dec 6th, 2008
I spent most of the day yesterday creating 22 new pairs of earrings with textures I’d taken on the Yucatan Peninsula. I especially like the fine silver pieces that look like coral and urchin shells. Here’s a sample of the pieces:Now it’s time to pack up all the new earrings and head over to The [...]