Summer, you go by so fast.
As usual, I have had problems getting into the studio for myself. And I want new work! Summer is such a creative time for me…in my head, anyway.
I have been making lots of shell focal beads…and I need to get them to the coast to approach a few locations with. But summer is halfway over, almost! At least, at the beach, it’s always time for seashells. I have crazy ideas about adding mussels to beads, which came to me the last time I sat at the ocean a few weeks ago. Glass ones, of course, not real ones. It’s a hard shape in one way, an easy one in another. I haven’t experimented with it yet, but I intend to. When I have… time.
I need to get ramped up with my electroforming again, as I have pieces coming to me this week from the hot shop experience earlier in July. I spent the 5th in the shop of Pam Pitts and Mike Crowley playing with glass in all my strange ways. The giant bead I made a few years ago has morphed to something new, standalone. It still retains the bones of being a VERY large bead, but it has evolved, also to something that I think will end up very marine-like. Mike was great and said just what was on my mind, “Let’s make one BIGGER.” I will weigh it, but it should be 8 pounds of glass, at least. I am very excited to see my work next week. They also have photos of Pam and me working together, I hope to wrest those from their busy hands as well.
How are you spending YOUR summer?
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