Brooch A Day combined with Etsy Metal Monthly Theme - Pop Art.
A combination of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Batman.
Copper, vitreous enamel (torch-fired), glass beads, rubber stick-on letters.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
BAD-2013 30/365
Friday, January 25, 2013
Saturday, January 19, 2013
BAD-2013 18/365
more experimenting on pocket protectors with new enamels. This is opal horizon blue.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
BAD 2013 16/365
More experimenting with new enamels on some sort of brooch type thing!
I like to call this a "Pocket Brooch" or for my nerdier side a "Pocket Protector Brooch." Designed to slip into a pocket.
This is opalescent chartreuse enamel, torch-fired over plain copper. Quickly becoming one of my favorite enamels!
BAD 2013 15/365
I just got some new enamels! So thought I would experiment with them while putting them on some sort of brooch type thing!
I like to call this a "Pocket Brooch" or for my nerdier side a "Pocket Protector Brooch." Designed to slip into a pocket.
This is opalescent turquoise enamel, torch-fired over plain copper on the left and over white enamel on the right.
Monday, November 5, 2012
Why Do I Make Jewelry?
It's that time of month again... The Etsy Metal Blog Carnival!
This month's question is "Why Do I Make Jewelry?"
I have a BFA in sculpture and did metal sculpture and some jewelry in college, a long long time ago.
But, I've made art all my life. I've made lots and lots of different art... printmaking, calligraphy, sign painting, clay, silk painting, metal sculpture, photography, drawing, ...
I don't really think I have a choice, I have to make something.
So about 10 years ago I ventured back into working with metal and enamels and making jewelry. And I felt like I had come home. I absorbed everything I read and learned in workshops and it stuck. It was as if I already knew all of this stuff, I had just forgotten.
It was different than making something to hang on a wall. Jewelry is more alive: it moves; it's 3-dimensional; it's noisy; you are allowed to touch it, as a matter of fact you have to touch it. I have a hard time going to a museum or a gallery to look at paintings and sculpture and not being allowed to touch them... I do it anyway!
The other thing that appeals to my ADD nature, is that just about any art that you can do, you can do on jewelry, like painting, drawing, calligraphy, small sculpture, photography... so I feel like I'm not missing out on anything.
Why do other Etsy Metal members make jewelry?
Cynthia Del Giudice
Laura Jane Bouton
silentgoddess
Beth Cyr
Peculiar Forest
Tosca Terán
Nodeform
Mary Anne Karren
My Precious Studio
Deborah Lee Taylor
Anne Walker
Andrea Ring
Gracebourne Design
Danielle Miller
Inbar Bareket
Jewellietta
Abella Blue
Monday, October 1, 2012
Etsy Metal Blog Carnival
Topic: "Back to School?"
Fall has arrived, are you taking any classes or workshops? Metal/jewelry related or other: Is there a new technique you've learned recently?Do you have children that are in school, what grade, what kind of school and how does it affect your routine/schedule?
Well, my kids are all back to school, college that is. I have 3 boys and they are all in college, I'm pretty sure they will graduate at some point!! The oldest is at San Francisco State studying communications & film, the middle one is at Long Beach State studying art, and the youngest is at Cabrillo College studying math & physics. They don't really affect my routine much except when they need money!
I went to a lecture of Betty Helen Longhi and bought a delrin anticlastic stake and another hammer.
And I've been spending a lot of time trying to learn CSS & HTML, so much that my brain feels like it is going to burst!
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