Spring is Here or Is it

Trees are starting to bud and the birds are singing. I've been seeing a few robins around this past week, but it seems too early to plant. In anticipation of Spring, I decided to make a PMC fine silver butterfly this week. It was a busy week for wire wrap jewelry classes, I will be posting some of the student's work on my web site. It's fun to see what people do. Some people are naturally good wrappers and very creative with wire. With the Beginner's PMC class on Saturday, I plan to use some of the photos of nature to inspire textures on their work.

Tactile Power of Weaving

Woven paper has such a lovely texture and tactile feeling. I've seen so many different artists weave textures using different media - paper, wire, cloth, glass, clay and so on. I'm sure there are people who have wonderful woven art to share. I'd love to see other artists share their woven art. And if you are a weaver, but have never made jewelry, I'm offering a new class on woven precious metal clay (PMC) paper earrings. I'm thinking about other media to throw into the mix.

Updating the Studio Space

There's nothing like having more light pour into your studio space. At least if you paint and want to see what the color really is on the canvas.

Yesterday my husband helped me install a new stained glass window and door in the studio. The window had been boarded up by the previous owner more than 5 years ago. The old door on the side of the studio was starting to come apart at the bottom. To replace it, we found another door with windows at the top and an old brass door knocker on the outside.

I don't know what took us so long to do it. I guess we thought it would be a major project. It ended up taking only about 6 hours to do it.

Now I'm thinking about making the outside of the door reflect the art and creativity that goes on inside the studio. My head is spinning with thoughts of covering the whole door in metal, but I think I will start with the panels and see where that takes me. I don't want it to rust, but would love a nice patina to evolve out of the coppers as it ages or maybe I will intentionally color it with blues and greens and see what it becomes.