Finally some silver...

Here's some tiny silverware I've been working on. The spoon was the hardest, just because of shaping the spoon part, but these are a lot of fun to make. They are going to become necklaces this week, although I kind of hate drilling little holes in them...but otherwise, all I can do is sit here and look at them. Next photo gives an idea of scale.....




This is one I did out of PMC. I'll be listing all of this as soon as I can in my store on Etsy.

Back at it...

Well, I'm back to building armatures for a new stop-motion film. I am really excited to get back to business. Can't really say much about it, except that everyone involved seems to be going in good directions and it should be a nice little package with it's own personality. It's wonderful to see it all evolve. Here's to a few years of work!

I'm Back.....

I abandoned my poor little blog for a while there....I'll try to be better. Some wonderful old friends and roommates found me on facebook this week- sometimes that thing is wonderful. Can't wait to catch up with them. It was like getting christmas present in April! So, here's some things I've been working on over the winter, along with revamping my Etsy store (still in the process of that).

I got way into felting and knitting/crochet this winter. I've got a whole bin of yarn and about 8 unfinished projects going on. Here's some photos of the felting...





Working on some silver clay jewelry right now...they are in the kiln as I write this, so hopefully will have images soon. I've decided to try just selling jewelry for a while in my shop and keep it simple, instead of having paintings, prints, sculpture, etc....was feeling too jumbled and not really cohesive. It's nice having a platform to experiment with. And let me finish with the fact that most of the Etsy hacks stopped working with Etsy's site changes!!!! This is truly horrible. Those things were wonderful. I think some still work and the guy who does them is updating them to try and get them to work with the changes on the site....and all I can say is please! please! please!

Having a hard time really being motivated lately. Have a lot of stuff need to take pictures of but just can't seem to set everything up to do it. Probably doesn't help that I pulled something fierce in my lower back today while lifting my dog into the car - taking her to the vet b/c a large puss filled wound appeared over night on her belly - tasty, I know...

Oscar Nomination!

Coraline has been nominated for Best Animated Feature Film!! There's some stiff competition, though...not sure if we'll really be able to pull anything off since "Up" seems to be the favorite, but, like they say, it's an honor just to be nominated.... feels great to be a part of it.

Encaustic marathon

Here's some more stuff I've been working on lately...the bird above is my fav so far - just love the look of egrets and herons. I'll never forget fishing early one morning on the Sandy river almost at Marmot dam (which is no more) - the forest coming up around me, testing out the weird made-up flys I did the day before. No one was there yet (it could get annoyingly crowded and tended to attract a lot of snaggers, chucking all kinds of monstrosities into the water), and I'm standing on a rock, casting out into the water, and all of the sudden this massive Great Blue Heron soars out through the trees and and follows the river a little, coming straight towards me through the misty, crisp morning air, breaking through the constant white noise of the river. It looked prehistoric- like I was on a movie set. It was just SO massive, it seemed unreal. Wonderful bright color, too - intensely dark periwinkle blue. It wooshed over me and disappeared again. It obviously realized what a bad fisherman I was and got the hell out- but I still had a great time climbing around on the boulders trying to find the perfect spot to cast my fancy little flies that no fish wanted... and the heron made my day all worth while.






Been experimenting with jellyfish with the encaustic because it has such a nice translucent quality about it. Still trying to get the tentacle area right. It's been hard to make it stand out enough and look right, but not too much like a craft project gone awry with streamers and whatnot.


Here's some more "stitching" patchwork stuff. I kind of like the idea of a 2-D object having to be stitched onto the page to make it stay.




Here's a little landscape after a scene in a movie I was watching. It's St. Petersburg in Russia.