days in the life of an art jewelry creator
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 [...]