Ketchup? Catsup?

Another Art Wednesday has passed and this time, my niece and I made cookies. Valentine's ones to be exact.Love her!

This weekend I plan on making Anti Valentine's Day cookies. Special ones...if ya get my drift. Wink wink. Nudge nudge. I hope they come out delicious AND rebellious.


Now, let's travel back in time to.....Monday! I went on an exercise date to Abalone Cove. It was fun, if only slightly painful on my weak knees. The starfish were beautiful and abundant!


Tomorrow, relax. Clean out the wreckage in my car. Visit the Hammer Museum to try and get Justin's stop-motion shown at amateur night.

That's all for this late night post.

Tits&Ass,
The Lady

Finally!

Made a few new texture samples and started my actual bracelet.


One of my faves so far. A paper cut out with some hammering.

And here is my first piece. I have yet to file and patina, but it's looking pretty good. It's kind of daunting because you have to figure everything out before you do it and I'm not used to planning so damn much!


I spent about an hour (& 6 saws!!) sawing this out.

Art Wednesday

My niece gets out of school early on Wednesdays and I thought it would be fun for her to have some project to do. Our first Art Wednesday was paper mache-ing. We only did one each due to an unforeseen time constraint, but with each Wednesday the crafts should be improving as I get a better grasp on children's art.

My hands were covered in starch, so I didn't have much time to snap pictures while we worked, but here's a picture of our drying balloons.



She wanted to make a beach ball and I was working on a hot air balloon.

It was a successful first art day!

Textures

Here are a few textures I worked on for my jewelry class. These are just experiments with hammering/stamping, roller mills, and patinas. I have yet to try out the sandblaster, but you bet your ass I will come Thursday.

I haven't fallen in love with any textures yet, which means I've got a lot to work on.


My first. It was hammered on, then sent through the roller mill with a piece of lace over it. This is my favorite so far.



Hammered with stamps and texture hammers.



I like this picture just cause it shows the effects of the roller mill on the metal and on the texturizer sent through. I placed two pieces of wire mesh in a criss cross fashion over the metal. This is another fave.



The strip at the bottom was hammered and patina'd


I'll be collecting interesting textures to send through the roller mill (I think it's my favorite texurizer thus far!).

Oh and on another note, I'm starting a weekly craft date with my niece. She's 5 years old and I think an art project would be fun for her. Tomorrow we start our "Art Wednesdays!" dates. She gets out of school early and I'll pick her up and we'll make art. Our first project: Papier mache!

FishFace

It's soothing and stress-relieving in a way unlike any other form of exercise. It's floating weightless, it's watching people's bottoms wiggle waggle underwater. It's stroke after swift stroke, slipping in, under, over and out. It's goggles pressed tight on my face, the snap of the swim suit on my back. The notorious wedgie. It's the way I feel, a fish flapping, flipping my fins. It's 30 minutes of glorious bliss.

Actively sitting....

I don't just sit. I actively sit.

I had just written something here, a stream of conscious writing.....then I deleted it. It didn't save my words, unfortunately. I still felt compelled to post something, so here I am.

I worked on textures on Saturday for Jewelry. Pictures will be posted in a day or two.

My weekend was an artsy, fun-filled, disaster of a good time. It makes me happy to have silly mishaps and laugh, laugh, laugh.

Silhouettes

I'm taking a jewelry making/metalsmithing class this semester. We have just begun working on our first project, a silhouette bracelet. It is made of one image that is repeated and layered three or more times. They can be different sizes, metals, or textures. It was a process finding the right silhouette, as a lot of images lose their complexity/interesting quality once the details are blacked out.

I ended up with a sparrow on a branch, but I'm not all together happy with it. It doesn't seem original enough or dynamic enough. It is a first project though, and maybe with enough textures and contrasting metals it will look more interesting.

Anywho, here's a picture of the template I'm using:




More updates to come when I have actual progress.