The amount of different work I have this week is staggering. To me, anyway. Drop off for the duo-show at Art on Broadway is a week from today. I also need to make sure I have inventory for the Celebration of Creativity in March, which isn’t that far away. Some inventory will come from Art [...]
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Solved?
I’ve had an issue for years with one certain kind of bead. Transparent glass in a mold. I get strange, football-shaped bubbles right against the mandrel. I’ve spent years trying to figure it out, I have a thread on one of the lampwork communities that I started in 2006 about this issue. I had a [...]
Dark Days Make for a Brighter Flame.
I am looking out the window and it is raining. A lot. And windy. The leaves fall sideways like smears of red, orange, and yellow paint. I get the yard waste bin full and by the next day it doesn’t look like I have raked at all. I did miss fall while living in California…but [...]
The summer zenith
Summer! The height of summer! Here in Oregon, we have skirted the heat that is oppressing so many other areas in the United States. I am grateful to not be blanketed with relentless heat every day…but the cool isn’t doing my tomatoes any good. The blueberries have come out, and are fat globes of juicy [...]
Shelling out
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 [...]
Sizing
I’m thinking about making larger focals for my Riveted series. These: I bought a lovely focal from a bead artist in South Africa that is larger than my 1.25″ across ones, and it is very large, but dramatic as a result. I figure for these Riveted focals, which are very time intensive and [...]
The monkeys are almost out.
When I got home from school in my formative years, my Mom always pasted a sign on the screen door with the “School’s out” rhyme on it. Such a feeling of elation that was, summer JUST beginning, all those weeks ahead of me with no school. Derek’s school ends next week. His very first year [...]
A quote about pricing…
Pricing is one of the hardest things for an artist to do. And I am certainly not going to write a post about it right now, but I came across this quote in a book I am reading called “Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture.” It is in a chapter called “Death of a [...]
Empty Bench
Ah. I love making art. I even love photographing. Selling, that’s hard. I took down most of my etsy listings a week before the Glass Gallery show, so that I didn’t manage to double sell a one-of-a-kind item. And then I checked the calendar, and realized it was almost time to go to the coast [...]
Show Wrap Up
The 2011 Gathering of the Guilds was super fun and a great weekend! Lots of work, as always, and this year I helped out on the pavilion team, the showcase area of our show where we put our best work for the show visitors to enjoy. It’s always so amazing what sells, and what doesn’t. [...]
