Well, at least 6 of the new pieces are now in my Etsy shop, and more will be added over the next few days. I'll be featuring a few of them in both Jewelry and Valentine Etsy Showcases over the weekend, and hope to also post in the ArtFire shop as time permits. Once again, a new body of work pulls from the past (I kept having flashbacks to monotype series I would do in printmaking) but added new thinking and skills to the present (I seem to have entered a new phase with some of the photography, which is just great!) At any rate, it's been a lot of work and a lot of fun...and when it's finally complete, I can't wait to get on with something new!
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Friday, January 30, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
Playing with Copper
Sometimes, it all just starts with lots of bits, lots of units or pieces or whatever word fits best. And the past week or so, copper was in my focus.
The mix of these amazing peach tinted baroque pearls with the warm, firey, coppery metal is really inspiring to me.
What happens when I use discs? Flat discs, discs that I pounded into sort of curved cups.
And taking 20 gauge wire, forming into different ear wire shapes, laying out all these bits and trying to put them together.
And finally, my signature heart, done many times in silver but quite satisfying in copper, too!
There's just something enthralling here with my new found experiments in copper. I have no idea if anything is quite adding up yet, but pushing around the wire, the bits and pieces has been such a great design assignment.
The mix of these amazing peach tinted baroque pearls with the warm, firey, coppery metal is really inspiring to me.
What happens when I use discs? Flat discs, discs that I pounded into sort of curved cups.
And taking 20 gauge wire, forming into different ear wire shapes, laying out all these bits and trying to put them together.
And finally, my signature heart, done many times in silver but quite satisfying in copper, too!
And while I'm on the subject of experimenting...getting the hang of basic "layout" in this Google blog program is quite challenging. Somehow, it just doesn't quite do what I expect it to do yet. Well, January's theme is, apparently, "experimentation."
Pearls of Wisdom?
During this wonderful, intensive work period (going on almost 2 months now!), I seem to get fixated on a specific form, to create related pieces. I don't just do one, I keep trying variations on a theme. One thread has come together in the past few weeks to produce the series below. The pearls, the waxed linen, the structure of the pieces. Repeated with different sizes and colors just to see how it would look? My favorite old game of "What would happen if....?"
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