Studio Updates

It keeps raining here, multiple inches each time.

I promised photos of what I worked on at Touchstone , 3 relief pieces. These are all completely formed, but not what I would call finished.

Greenman needs hanging hardware on the back and a final burnishing.
See all those bits around him? I pondered making him part of a larger collage, but decided against it.

Little ivy leaf piece will be a part of a larger collage. I'm going to make more of these small ones, oh about 3 inches max dimension, and use them to create 2 or 3 larger, but not really big, wallpieces.

Bear will also be a part of a larger steel collage, again not a huge one, just collaged enough to frame it out. He's based on the same design I recently used for some drawer pulls and fairly low detail.

I'm completely focused on wallpieces from now until November. I'm planning on lots of small pieces rather than trying to make big pieces. I'm inspired by many artists, but these days, I really like seeing Miss Laurence's stitched pieces, allisonstrine's art show with lots of small works, ruthrae's intuitive mixed media collages, and more collages by Xanthe. They work in very different styles, yet they all share a kind of raw intuitive approach full with joyful life energy.

and when I'm in the house, which seems so often, I've been working on these little acorns in wax. Eventually I'll cast them all in silver or bronze.

Then I'll hammer them into life.

Here's a pile of hammered and cut thin copper scraps, waiting to be beat up some more.

After I get some kid to punch more holes in them, I'll tumble them and use them for earrings or some kind of promo magnets.