Progress shots

I was productive in the studio today. Image dump! More to follow.

Sketches

Earrings, chains and other strange things. Will be making things soon... had far too good a time last night celebrating cinco de mayo, so today I potted some plants and cleaned while recovering from this wicked hangover. Sometimes, you just need a break.
Waiting for some silver to arrive too! Going to experiment etching it.

Some more sketches

Some more thoughts on the carnivorous project. Not sure if I'm going to make the deadline, but I'm still brainstorming anyway. This could be cool just for me to make.

Carnivorous

Some sketches for a project I'm working on involving carnivorous plants. I've been trying for days to think of some clever family appropriate metaphor, but whatever that idea is its been eluding me. All I've got is Victorian style portraits of the plants, which I think is kinda a silly juxtaposition while also being pretty, and referencing Darwin's sketches.

I'm not in love with it, but I think its kinda cool. We'll see. Need to think about it a bit more.

reference/inspiration

I've collected some images today of what I'm thinking of for this series of duality pieces. For some reason, this idea's got a hold on me. My plan is to put up a cork board in my studio, so I can actually look at these pieces while I'm working. Here's a few of them, plus my sketches for the day.

So, yea, I kinda took an unofficial week off...

But I had a blast. Between meeting Steve Prescott at the Origins Gaming Convention here in Columbus (yea, I'm kinda a geeky sci-fi gamer girl, one of my many complicated... deep... facets who am I kidding I just like geeky stuff sometimes!) and hanging out at Comfest round firedancers and drum-circles, I pretty much had my week set out for me to do no work and freakin relax. It was lovely.

So, in this post, I give you BOTH the geeky me, some other lovely dressed up types at the Convention, and some jewelry sketches and earrings. That's to make up for last week, fellow blog readers, and I hope you accept my humble apologies.

My husband, Caesar Travis


I mostly make excuses to wear that bustle


Ninjagirl Awesome!


The evening drum circle


The aforementioned firedancer

Sketches

Ok, so I lied about posting in progress work. I'm feelin kinda crappy tonight, so I decided to chill, watch some Bones and do some sketches instead of get into hardcore jewelrymakin. So, here's the result. Brainstorming some new designs.
Also, the lightning outside today is freakin awesome! Really large and beautiful. Go outside and look!

Two days of works in progress

Here's some images of a pair of necklaces and earrings I'm currently working on. I put them next to their sketches for reference... I think they're coming along nicely.


The top one pictured here with the blue root squigglies is a rare picture of one of my pieces unfired. The blue squigglies are still in powder enamel form on top of the fired green enamel. The bottom piece is completely enameled, in contrast.

Cutting these bastards out took awhile today. But they're going to be really cute! Now i just have to cut out three more just like them to make the matching pair or earrings. You can see by the sketch what these guys are going to look like.

The weekend has been nice, but tomorrow is another work day! So much to do before my next craft show. To work with me!

Sketches at the craft fair

Some ideas I've been having lately. Ancient drippy Doorways and roots: