Art Camp

Gail and I have felt the need this summer to make art, to express our creativity in tangible form. Life interferes with the making of art but when it is important when it nourishes your soul you make time.'

Saturday we got together to create. I get to the lake and find Gail is still in town running errands ( as referenced above life and duties can get in the way). I had packed my jewelry making supplies with two projects to work on. So I sat at her cast iron table overlooking the Seneca Lake and beaded happily until a spider dropped on my head. I couldn't even scream and run as I was in the middle of crimping the the toggle on.

We had been at the Manayunk Art Festival the weekend before and on the way back from Philidelphia to Upstate NY we stopped in Jim Thorpe, PA and had a break from the drive. We found a wonderful pendant Pietersite and silver. It has a wonderful hologram effect with copper, blasck and gray colors.

The other piece I worked on was a mixed metal clay piece made with my sister Lucy of Lucy Ellen Design. It was an Owl face with two metals so I used metal findings with 3 colors and colored pearls-gold, magenta, green. I had a fun stone piece that was oddly shaped but when placed with the owl made it look like a winged body. In the pictures are some of the fun owl pieces I have collected since being a Chi Omega Omicron Chapter U.C. Davis. The background original art work was by Gail Walker,

fall fun

I love halloween and can not believe how fast it is approaching. We were blessed in September to have David and his girlfriend Liz with us. I met Davin Palm Springs after he finished at 29-Palms spent time with my parents and sister.
Lucy is an accomplished metal clay artist and she was nice enough to fly her clays and tools down to Palm Springs for me to play with. I made several pendants in rose bronxe, yellow bronxe, steel and copper. Lucy trained under Hagar Jacobson so I feel like I am 2nd generation clay artist in the Hadar line. Lucy had to take the piece back to San Ramon to fire and finsih I will b egetting those back for my holiday present this year.

Just finished a batch of Halloween necklaces. I tend to buy beads and horde them for a while. I will match them up with other beads and keep them together for a while. I then will wait a week or two and then reaccess them add more beads and wait again. Then like today I will get them all out and usually make some combination of the first look and the second look.

From etsy  https://www.etsy.com/shop//WackyPup I got a wonderful two pumpkin pendant. I had written her to say I was getting complements on the ones I had bought in 2011, lucky for me Elizaabeth made some new ones.

Also from etsy some hand made lampwork beads an witchy owl and one eyed monster https://www.etsy.com/shop//moonrakerbeads. I added some handmade beads I had gotten at the Wildwood  Boardwalk craft fair Memorial day weekend 2012.
                                 

I had a piece of dichoic glass that I was not wearing enough so I jazzed it up with chains and pearls. I love it but my daughter Sarah loved it more it is going back to college with her.

 

Now for the Day of the Dead celebration I love to use a skull bead this year I was seeing alot of mustaches on Pinterest so here with the help of

https://www.etsy.com/shop//FrancescaDeCaire I found the perfect skull bead on etsy.