Underwater Marvels Propel My Art
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 job working with all the artists and the printer to organize this calendar and make it happen.
I’m happy to be included in the April, July and December calendar pages. Above is a sneak peak at the April page.
Yesterday I half-heartedly leafed through the Sept/Oct edition of Oakland Magazine for an article on Lireille Gallery; we’d expected to see the article printed in the July edition. I was stopped mid-turn by a photo I recognized: “Souls Medal of Honor”, a piece of mine that I just wrote about here a few days ago.
Very shocking and very nice! The “In the Mix” section of Oakland Magazine includes a very nice article on Lireille Gallery, and my photo is the one they chose to run with the article. If you’re looking for the magazine in stores (aren’t you?! 🙂 ) here’s what the cover looks like.
I learned the other day that three pictures of my work will be included in a 2010 Calendar published by the San Francisco Bay Area Metal Clay Guild. Today as the random picture generator flashed pictures by on my computer, I noticed the location that was an inspiration for one of the pieces. I’d chosen red ribbons for the ‘chain’ part of the piece and this is probably why…
The granulation on the tombstone portion was the beginning of the piece.
I’d been thinking about making a Day of the Dead piece for over a year, so the recent pictures taken at the Mayan ruins museum at Copan Ruinas were great to have.
I etched the pictures into copper and used the etched plates to texture fine silver metal clay for the decorative beads holding the ribbons together. The effect of this above photo as an etching plate is very subtle as you can see on the end cap.
The skull clasp was a little tricky to make by both molding and carving the separate pieces.
Yesterday I was pleasantly surprised when my artist’s copy of “500 Knives” by Lark Books was delivered. My “Khanjar” letter opener (page 267) slices open envelopes very well, when it’s allowed to see some action. After making it, I decided it was more of a display piece. I need to make myself a letter opener that I am less protective of.
The book contains photos of some amazing works of art, masquerading as very functional knives.