You know how ‘they’ will tell you not to spend to much time on Facebook etc? Well, let me tell you it is not always a waste of time! I’ve got to know some amazing people and had some interesting conversations, even though I’ve never met them in person…. yet… One of these people I…
Yesterday I came across the beautiful & delicate work of Diem Chau. Diem works in a variety of media – but stays true to ‘Tiny Things’ across all of these, her beautiful little carvings on top of a pencil, carved Crayolas and the beautiful lines on her porcelain pieces. Her show at Milan’s Galleria Patricia…
This week I wanted a slightly different, softer color palette. Enamels can be any color, too many to choose from! Pinks are in the more expensive range of enamels, and they can be a problem if you’re working on silver. Using a layer of flux underneath these colors can help there. I think it’s…
I love to just sit somewhere and draw little snippets of whatever is around, or I might go for a walk, pick things up and bring them back to the studio. While my husband watches TV I get my small sketchbook out and draw some 1″ squares. Then I take one of my finds and…
This week I came across some long lost left-over earrings. It was a nice surprise to find them back!
I took them apart, used the PMC pods, wired them onto a bit of sterling silver chain & applied some patina.
I made my first drawing for this bracelet over 18 months ago, but as is often the case, life got in the way and nothing was done until now. I found all the materials I want to incorporate and I have the template done, great start, all I need now is some studio time! My…
A simple drawing can lead to a nice new project, look at my ‘Byron Rocks’ pendant, the design couldn’t be simpler and I had a lot of fun doing it to boot!
This morning I came across some images I liked at Flickr, they are by Dutch artist Birgit Doesborg. Take a look at her PlantAliens: http://bit.ly/bQOPar
I felt the urge to try this with a few of my own images, so I set up some Actions in Photoshop to see how that would go. I liked the results, then did it again, this time with one of my Kelp Roots line drawings. Look what came out of that:)
I got a book from the library called: ‘Masters of Deception’ Shigeo Fukuda’s work is the most incredible to me, have a look at this video…
I believe that everybody is creative! No exceptions!
When students attend my classes for the first time I often hear remarks like this:
“I can’t even draw a straight line” (therefore I am not creative)
“I have tried things before but never really found anything I can do creatively” (so you can see I’m just not creative!)
“I have no ideas!” (that proves I’m not creative!)
