Sunday, January 29, 2006

little cock robin

little cock robin
sitting on a pole
niddle noddle went his head
poop went his hole


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"she" by francesco clemente


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robin beads - first attempt.

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also an egg and a nest with an egg in it.

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for the nest make a round clear bead, flatten the top and add the egg, then wrap and wrap and wrap with verigated brown stringers.

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these are cute, but i want something more naturalistic, so i went to the sketch book.
there will be more later.


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Saturday, January 28, 2006

flies

yer buggin' me.

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"Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day."

-Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "Dreams & Facts"

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

yucca pods & pearls necklace

yucca pod beads.

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these look as tho they were picked up off a forest floor - same as dry and decaying autumn leaves and brown lichens.

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the necklace is done with a sterling silver clasp and white fresh water pearls.

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here are the pages from my bead sketchbook that i worked from. of course, i also had the real pods with me at the flameworking bench.

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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

happy pink bear skulls

making some happy pink bear skull beads for miss mango.

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i had some problems with the line work being lumpy dumpy. after thinking about it i think i need to encase some superfine stringers in clear in order to handle the details.

the usual sketchbook notes.

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you know, you really should keep a sketch book.

even if you don't draw - you can clip and glue and make notes.
that way, when you get to the bench you are ready to go.

never mind waiting around for your muse, have her in the car, gassed and ready to go.

Thursday, January 19, 2006

these socks & beads are like butter

and the tigers were very, very angry, but still they would not let go of each other's tails.
and they were so angry, that they ran round the tree, trying to eat each other up, and they ran faster and faster, till they were whirling round so fast that you couldn't see their legs at all.
and they still ran faster and faster and faster, till they all just melted away, and there was nothing left but a great big pool of melted butter round the foot of the tree.
- from little black sambo by Helen Bannerman

the finished tiger socks.


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they were knit up with "Opal tiger." what can do you do when you finish a pair of socks but immediately make a set of matching tiger beads?

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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

rosehip beads

last fall at a household sale i knicked a branchlet of rosehips from a bush.

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i carried the fruit to "More Fire" and worked at flameworking a rose hip.
this first attempt was not at all successful - they looked like wonky cherry tomatoes.

so, i scanned the hips into the computer and thought about forming techniques for a week or two as the hips schriveled up on my desktop. eventually i pasted the printouts into a sketchbook - the first pages of the everfattening bead book.

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the second attempt yeilded the beads that were made into this bracelet.

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my first piece of jewelery made with my own beads.


pass the kleenex and some art to wear

suffering from a miserable cold I dream of making a hat like this fantasy by Ana Voog.

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