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I really enjoy teaching my Wednesday night enameling classes. I never know how my pieces will look when they are done, so its always an adventure.
This is a project I worked on last Wednesday night in my enameling class. To show students how to apply enamel onto copper [...]
Here they are, a friend’s vacation keepsakes made into jewelry. I drilled the beach glass with diamond drill bits and used sterling silver wire that I reclaimed from old silverware. I made the earrings and pendants simple and clean, with just a flourish of silver. Just what she asked for. They will be perfect to [...]
My workbench at the Cultural Arts Center, a congratulatory bottle of wine from the director for our high enrollments (thank you, Jennifer!), a pile of spoon bowls fresh off the polishing wheel, and asphaltum covered bullets on their way to the etching solution. All the bare metal designs you see will be eaten [...]
Check it out! I got a great used foredom flex shaft, and I’m just now breaking it in I love foredom machines – they are the best. I bought my last one used many years ago, and it never broke down. It just needed some brushes, some new shafts, and some lubrication now [...]
Here are some pictures of Urban Scrawl last weekend. The artists blew me away with their murals – so much talent in one place! There was also a group of sculptors working in metal and a cool art truck. Maybe that’s what I should do to my old rust bucket Ford Ranger! The show was [...]
It’s been about a week and a half since the Dublin Art Fair, and I think I’m pretty much recovered. Immediately following the Gold Coast Art Fair the previous weekend, I was still in a daze for Dublin! The nice thing about doing a local show is that I get to sleep soundly in my [...]
The show is only days away and I have so many pieces to finish! I do this before every art show, only more so for the Gold Coast. I decide that I don’t have enough work and then cocoon myself in the studio for about 2 weeks prior. The problem is that I never want [...]
Okay, I should be sleeping, but I have to blog before I go to bed. Here’s my booth at the Granville Art Affair. What a nice show! A handsome Dennison football player named Blake helped me set up my new (used) tent and booth design. Thank you, Blake!!!! I’ve improved my backdrop, adding pure silk drapes and some new displays. My [...]
In just a few hours, I will be setting up my booth at the Granville Art Affair and Wine Festival at the Bryn Du Mansion in Granville, Ohio.
So, of course I am furious working at my bench to finish just a few more pieces to offer at the show! I’m sure [...]
Here it is with the final polish! The topaz ring Martha commissioned me through Hayley Gallery. Such a great feeling to see it completed, still surrounded by the dust and tools on my workbench. Martha picked the stone out and gave me the freedom to design for her. As I worked with [...]
This is gonna be a great show!
