Long Month

Wow, it has been a long month.  Lots going on with family (I know, what else is new?).  Anyway, in the mean time, I was able to finish a ring.  I had challenged my advanced students, at The Art Center, Highland Park, to make a ring for the call for entries for Lark's new book "500 Rings"s and I thought I should make one too.  I had it professionally photographed by a jewelry photographer named Steve Wagner.  See the link to his site in the links section of this blog.  Steve is very personable as well as professional.  He also photographed one of my students works and it turned out very nice also. I am not sure why the server keeps rejecting the image of my ring but as soon as I figure out how to, I will post it. In the mean time here is a very amateur picture by yours truly...  OK, maybe not, can't find it.  More to come.

Pewter Casting

I went to a one day pewter casting workshop over the weekend.  It was a fun day out with my friend Pam.  We drove to Mineral Point, Wisconsin (which is a great little destination that deserves a posting all of its own).  The workshop was put on by Shake Rag Alley (again deserves a post of its own) and instructed by Eric Donaldson.  After a slow start (waiting for the plaster molds to cure) we finally did some casting in the afternoon.  Here are the two things I made, a little tulip charm and a salt spoon.  Any of you who know my wax carving will notice these are rather crude for my work.  But, I had fun and learned the basic process which was the idea.  I will definitely be doing more experimentation with this process.