i'm itching to show the piece i designed for the convention michelle is hosting...but i've been instructed to WAIT.  ugh, i'm no good at that.  here's another new piece with a basic stone setting.  sterling silver, beach stone and chrysophase beads.

it's a basic setting, but i still have a long way to go in perfecting my technique.

and if you're in calgary stampeding...yeehaw!

BAW52/18

BAW #18: bit of a departure on this one.  used a slice of raw wood and just a few dots with two distressed granulation accents.  think i'll have to explore this series a bit more.  really like that i can still see the grain of the wood etc.  choosing colors for the raw wood vs. my usual black wood was also a challenge.  cheers!

#117-118

 day 117: today was spent in the studio.  these are all works-in-progress, 5 new brooches.

day 118: and today i finally got around to photographing some of the new brooches that i finished on friday!  these were made with recycled tongue depressors and fine silver.

The Sketchbook Project

so i've been working on a sketchbook for the last couple of months, but this one is a little different. for one thing, it doesn't have any jewelry sketches in it. i've been participating in the The Sketchbook Project for the Brooklyn Art Library. The Sketchbook Project is a permanent collection of sketchbooks by artists from all over the world. at the end of april, the entire collection will be going on tour! i'll post the wheres and whens later. for now, the exciting news is, i'm finished! and with a week to spare, since the postmark date has to be before january 31st. the art library will also store the sketchbooks digitally, a link i'll share when i get it, but for now....

the cover and first couple of pages!

my drawing style tends to be a bit cartoon-y and i love colored pencils, so i had a lot of fun with this. the theme i chose was 'travel with me' and took inspiration from photos of places i have visited in my life. enjoy and i'll post a few more tomorrow!

front and back covers

1/2 - Himeji Castle, Japan 2010

3/4 - Las Vegas, Nevada 2009