Ceramic Leaf Fragments

 Some earrings I made today. I love summer break! I've have these porcelain pieces laying around forever, and then it took me 5 minutes to turn them into something wearable. Black, green, and blue glazes.

This picture is sideways. Please excuse it.

Hemp Barbarian Skirt

This used to be a dress, and then it was another dress, and then it was a skirt. I hand sewed it all. It's a light purple/grey color. Hemp is a wonderful fabric, it's dense but super breathable and comfy.

Not the best picture, but I believe that this is the first piece of clothing that I've put on here...which is crazy, because I make a good deal of clothing. I'll take more photos soon!

Several Abstracts

 This one I did a while ago, and I never took a picture of it. I think it needs more work.

 Biology inspired, I did this toward the end of last semester, and again, never took a picture of it. I'm really fond of this one, mostly because I tried some new techniques on it and they WORKED! Always a nice thing to have happen.

And this one is brand new, I just finished it last night. I took a calculus class over the summer, and ended up inspired to paint something...math related...oh, I feel so nerdy.
I love it, though; mixing gouache and watercolor is always my favorite combination. You get the soft edges of the watercolors, and then the gouache dries on top of it in all these veiny, fractal-like branching patches. The way that you see watercolor spreading across the paper and you think, "oh man, if only it would dry like that." Well, gouache does. Love.

Jewelry Sale Display Dec11

Here was our display at the Christmas jewelry sale:

Beads!

I know I posted this a while ago after I first made it, but those were such horrible photos that I thought I'd try again. Still not "professional" quality, but I'm by no means set up to be a professional jewelry photographer, and anyway, if I considered this to be a "professional" blog, I wouldn't have nearly the same kind of fun with it. But really when you get down to it, what's so bad about being fun? My hopes are always that people will look at this blog and either 1. be inspired by my art, or 2. want to contact me to buy it. I mean, how cool would that be?
But more than anything, it's just a way for me to record these bits of myself, for myself, and to share.

Anyway.

This is an AWESOME brass and silver bead pendant that Ian made. Talk about flawless and perfect.

More Fall 2011 Jewelry

Ian's fire-patina copper cuff.

A co-design by Mia and Ian. :) Copper cuff with brass inlay and suttle texture.

Some simple dapped brass pieces, with hammer texture and wire inlay. I'm going to do something better with them in the future...any ideas?

Foldform, melted/fused copper pendant.

Earrings Fall 2011!

Happy New Year!! Here's to an amzing 2012 for all of us.



Ian's- copper foldform, patina.

Ian's- brass, hammer texture and slightly dapped.

Ian's- Copper, cement texture, drilled holes, wavy shape, fire patina. (I had to nab these for myself, I love them so much)

Brass chain, silver discs, bezel-set Tiger's Eye. These are my best earrings ever made, I think.

Dapped brass discs with filed copper wires

Punched, textured, melted.

Brass and copper inlay pair #1

Just simple copper. I was very fond of these.

Brass and copper inlay pair #2