I want to thank all of you for your very wonderful comments on my Daisy Pendants and all of your congratulations for being on the cover of Stringing Magazine. I apologize for being a little late on announcing the winner. But here it is
And the Winner is:
Sally Anderson
Congratulations!!!!!
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Saturday, March 03, 2012
5th Bead Soup Blog Party---The Reveal
Bead Soup From Shannon LeVart aka Miss Ficklemedia
I have had a great experience working with her components and I have written a Bead Soup Blog Party Diary to give you a real time experience with my creative process. I have even included a video. You can see all of this here on my blog. Click the page tab above titled Bead Soup Blog Hop Diary --The Making. Since you have lots of artists to visit I want to keep this part of the blog for the pictures of what I made.
I made a wrist wrap bracelet with the lovely deep red Sari Silk that Shannon sent. I embellished it with the pearls, copper beads and verigris charms from my Bead Soup. They are attached to wire wrapped bands and loops that I attached along the bracelet. It wraps around my wrist twice. The clasp is one of my handmade ceramic toggle clasps designed especially for fibers.
Patinaed shells and sandollars from Miss Ficklemedia surround this fiber wrist wrap bracelet
I then went on to work on components for the neccklace and earrings. I wire wrapped the pearls and copper beads Shannon sent with the sweet ball head endpins she included in her package.
More of the sweet components from Shannon
The necklace was my challenge and my joy. I wanted from the get go to integrate the veridgris chain into a freeform peyote stitch necklace. I had no idea before I began working with the beads how I would do this. If you have ever done free form peyote you know it can be quite nervewracking if you have a deadline looming. You either come up with a piece of jewelry that works out or you have to start all over. No taking it apart and redoing once you have done it.
About the beads I used. I only used the bright turquoise porcelain ceramic beads and the seed beads from my own stash. The rest came from Shannon.
Starting with some closeups, here is my necklace:
Gorgeous chain wire wrapped to the toggle clasp Shannon sent. You can see the tiny seed bead loops I made to attach the chain and wire wrapped beads to the peyote stitch core.
The copper beads are stitched into the free form peyote stitch part of the necklace. Shannon's components hang from different beaded loops in the peyote base.
Now I hope you will hop along and visit as many other beaders as possible on this list below which has live links. Thank you Lori for making this wonderful event possible. I have loved participating.
Hostess, Lori Anderson
1. Adlinah Kamsir (Singapore) and Hajer Waheed (Kingdom of Bahrain)
2. Adrienn Lukacs (Hungary) and Agata Grygiel (Poland)
3. Agi Kiss (Hungary) and Carolien Muller-Genger (the Netherlands)
4. Agnes Asztalos (Hungary) and B.R. Kuhlman
5. Alesha Conklin and Becki Mendivil
6. Alice Peterson and Carol Dillman
7. Alicia Marinache (Canada) and Dita Basu
9. Amanda Tibbetts and Andrea Trank
11. Andra Weber and Christine Murrow
12. Ann Sherwood and Diane Welte
13. Barbara Bechtel and Kerry Bogert
14. Barbara Lewis and Cat Pruitt
15. Bonnie Coursolle (Canada) and Fay Wolfenden (Canada)
16. Carmel McGinley (Australia) and Tracy Stillman (Australia)
17. Cassie Donlen and Deryn Mentock
18. Cathie Carroll and Janel Dudley
19. Cece Cormier and Morwyn Mullins
20. Charlene Jacka and Christina Hickman
21. Cheryl Brown (Canada) and Diana Ptaszynski
22. Christina Stofmeel (the Netherlands) and Eva Kovacs (Hungary)
23. Christine Damm and Deb Brooks
24. Cilla Watkins (Canada) and Elaine Robitaille (Canada)
27. Cory Celaya and Rhea Freitieg
28. Courtney Breul and Dana Hickey
29. Cynthia Abner and Jennifer Boreck
30. Cynthia Tucker and Jean Peter
31. Debbie Goering and Heidi Post
32. Dee Elgie (UK) and Joanne Lockwood (UK)
33. Dian Hierschel (Germany) and Eniko Fabian (Austria)
34. Diane Cook and Lyn Foley
35. Donna Bohler and Lisa Lodge
36. Donna Millard and Kiersten Giles
37. Doris Stumpf (Germany) and Eszter Czibulyas (Hungary)
38. Elisabeth Auld and Eva Sherman
39. Elke Leonhardt-Rath (Germany) and Marjolein Trewavas (UK)
40. Ema Kilroy and Laurie Keefe-Cecere
41. Erika Nooteboom (the Netherlands) and Giorgia Rossini (Italy)
42. Erin Grant and Jean Wells
43. Evelyn Duberry (Canada) and Gaea Cannaday
44. Genea Crivello-Knable and Heather Powers
45. Ginger Bishop (military, Okinawa) and Martina Nagele (Germany)
46. Heidi Kingman and Lori Greenberg
47. Helen Kemp and Lisa Wangeman
48. Helene Goldberg (Australia) and Karen Vincent
49. Jamie Hogsett and Jeannie Dukic
51. Jennifer Cameron and Tania Spivey
52. Jennifer Justman and Kari Carrigan
53. Jennifer Tough and Lorelei Eurto
54. Joanna Matuszczyk (Poland) and Julianna Kis (Hungary)
55. Joanne Tinley (UK) and Michaela Pabeschitz (Austria)
56. Julie Anne Leggett and Kelley Fogle
57. Karen Hess and Linda Landig
58. Karyn Bonfiglio and Kathleen Lange Klik
59. Kashmira Patel and Kat White
61. Kathy Lindemer and Rose Binoya
62. Krafty Max and Sandra Miller
63. Kristen Latimer and Pam Ferrari
64. Kristie Roeder and Lea Avroch
65. Kristina Johansson (Sweden) and Penny Neville (Canada)
66. Krisztina Erlaki-Toth (Hungary) and Nicole Keller (Germany)
67. Lara Lutrick and Lisa Suver
68. Laura DeMoya and Lisa Hanna
69. Libby Leuchtman and Melanie Brooks
70. Linda Koch and Rosemarie Cowit
71. Lisa Chapman and Menka Gupta
72. Lisa Liddy and Marion Simmons
73. Lori Anderson and Marcie Abney
74. Lori Bowring-Michaud and Mary Govaars
75. Lori Dorrington and Maria Rosa Sharrow
76. Lori Finney (Canada) and Marie-Noel Voyer-Cramp (Canada)
77. Lynn Bennett and Mandi Ainsworth
78. Marta Kaczerowska (Poland) and Milla Starchik (Canada)
79. Mary Harding and Shannon LeVart
81. Melinda Orr and Molly Alexander
83. Michelle Jensen and Sandra Young (Canada)
84. Nan Emmett and Nicole Valentine-Rimmer (Canada)
85. Nancy Boylan and Suzette Bentley
86. Natasha Lutes and Patti Vanderbloemen
87. Pam Hurst and Rebekah Payne
88. Patty Miller and Sara Rhoades
90. Rebecca Sirevaag and Sharon Driscoll
91. Rochelle Brisson and Shannon Chomanczuk
92. Rosa Maria Cuevas (Mexico) and Tejae Floyde
93. Sabine Dittrich (Germany) and Sally Russick
94. Sandi Volpe and Sarah/Saturday Sequins
95. Shanti Johnson and Tracy Mok (Canada)
96. Skylar Brez and Theresa Buchle
97. Sonya Stille and Traci Zeller (Canada)
98. Stefanie Teufel (Germany) and Tania Hagen (New Zealand)
99. Stephanie LaRosa and Vonna Maslanka
100. Terri Wlaschin and Wendy Blum
Friday, March 02, 2012
REVEAL/ BLOG HOP Tomorrow BeadsofClay First Friday Art Walk Today
The REVEAL/BLOG HOP for Lori Anderson's 5th Bead Soup Blog Party is tomorrow. I hope you will come back and see what I made with the lovely components sent to me by my partner MissFicklemedia. See you then.
Today is the beginning of the BeadsofClay Professional Artists Team First Friday Art Walk which I am participating in on my Etsy Store. Use coupon code BOCFFAW for a 10% discount on everything in my shop all weekend.
New in My Etsy Shop
Daisy Pendant with Orange Petals in my Etsy Shop
Rustic Toggle Clasp in Green in my Etsy Shop
Forest Fern Pendant in my Etsy Shop
Monday, February 20, 2012
Celebration Giveaway
Here is the Giveaway--2 Daisy Pendants .
Thanks so much for stopping by.
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
A Herd Of Wild Horses in the City
This weekend we were stir crazy from being at home so much due to all the ice so we took off for Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to our favorite museum The National Gallery. As we drove in to park our car in the underground lot, we were stopped and had to wait while a vehicle that was too high got unstuck from the underground entrance. I got out of the car to wait or go in and suddenly saw a herd of wild horses. I was immediately enchanted and got out my phone to take pictures.
I love the way they fly by reflecting the light broken by the traffic on Sussex Drive. They seem three dimensional. But mostly they are just such beautiful wild horses.
We left the museum after a wonderful afternoon of art without knowing who created these gorgeous sculptures but I was pretty sure a quick search on Google would let me know. So this morning I did just that and I have included information below about the artist Joe Fafard. I hope you enjoy finding out more about him as I did.
A herd of prairie horses – created in steel by Saskatchewan artist Joe Fafard – is now running past the National Gallery of Canada (NGC). The newly installed work, Running Horses (2007), was purchased by the NGC in 2008 with the support of the Gallery Foundation.
With manes and tails streaming out behind them, the herd of horses in shades from rusty red to yellow to black appear to gallop along Sussex Drive towards downtown. An elegant mare leads the herd, followed by other mares and colts, while a muscular black stallion brings up the rear. Made from laser-cut steel, each horse is a less-than life size silhouette-like form with various cut out patterns in its body. These negative spaces enable the viewer to see through each horse, creating a layered effect. Viewed head on, each horse is a narrow sculptural form made from ¼”-thick steel and supported by a solid bronze cast base that has been sculpted and painted to look like wind-blown prairie grass.
Among the eleven horses, no two are identical: there are six different variations of cut out patterns and each horse is painted in a unique manner. While the laser-cut patterns are suggestive of dappled or certain types of pinto markings, they come from the artist’s imagination.
“I love the idea of Fafard’s wild horses running along with the traffic on Sussex Drive,” noted NGC director Marc Mayer. “We haven’t had a sculpture in front of the Gallery’s main drive way in many years. This work is a wonderful evocation of Western Canada by one of our most beloved artists.”
There are five other works by Fafard in the NGC collection: Bull (1970), E II R (1978), and Cézanne (1981) are three early works in ceramic; Silvers (1999) and Western Dancer (2003) are two later works in bronze.
About artist Joe Fafard
Joe Fafard, a twelfth generation Canadian, is a sculptor best known for creating objects which reference community and farm life. His career has boldly blazed a path for the reinvigoration of sculpture in the contemporary Canadian art scene. Born into a farming family in the French-speaking community of Sainte-Marthe, Saskatchewan, Fafard showed a keen interest in art from a young age. He completed a bachelor’s degree in fine art at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg in 1966, and a master’s degree at Pennsylvania State University in 1968.
He returned to Canada to teach sculpture and pottery at the University of Saskatchewan in Regina. In 1974 he left teaching, and settled in Pense (SK) to sculpt full time. Fafard’s career took a major shift in the early 1980s when he won a commission from the Toronto Dominion Bank to create a new public art installation. The commission propelled Fafard into a new phase of creation with a new medium: bronze. In 1985 Fafard opened his own foundry, Julienne Atelier Inc., in Pense.
Fafard was awarded the Order of Canada in 1981, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Allied Arts Award in 1987, an honorary doctorate from the University of Regina in 1988, and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 2002.
Saturday, February 04, 2012
Kristi's Copper Component Blog Hop The Reveal
Welcome to the Kristi Bowman Copper Component Blog Hop
I am a great admirer of Kristi's work in Copper metal clay and when I read about this blog hop on her blog I thought it would be a good chance for me to own one of her pieces and make a new necklace for myself. I love to make long dangly necklaces to wear in the winter with Turtle Neck shirts and sweaters.
We had a choice of the sea urchin or ammonite component. I chose the piece pictured above and when it arrived I was so pleased with the way that it looks and feels. Has a weight to it and it is thick enough to hold up to a lot.
From the very beginning, it was a SUN to me. Maybe because at that time and since I have been making some sun charms and connectors beads in my ceramic studio.
So I set to work to make this necklace as long as possible and for it to shine with COPPER SUN. All of the beads I used were handmade by me either in ceramic clay, fused glass, copper (the sun shaped flower) felt, or seed beads. A few of the copper rings are from Tierra Cast, the others are copper washers that I stamped. The smaller copper chain is from Ornamentea and the larger one is an Industrial Chic Chain by Susan Lenart Kazmer from Michaels.
( the pictures of my piece start at the very bottom and go upward with a full shot at the end.)
Thank you Kristi for making this fun blog hop possible!!!
Necklace as it looks being worn
Please visit the others who created with Kristi's beautiful copper components here
Friday, February 03, 2012
BOC First Friday Art Walk
New in my Etsy Shop Sea Keep Pendant
Wild Garden Pendant
Rose Hip Ceramic Pendant
Tangerine handmade earthenware ceramic beads
New Wetland Bloom two sided image bead and connector
Hand carved ceramic bead
Porcelain Beads
Fir Bough Toggle Clasp
Leaves of the Vine Toggle Clasp
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