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Over my years of wire wrapping there have been a lot of pendants that I’ve made with the intention to sell, that I ended up keeping for myself. This is not one of those. This piece wasn’t one that grabbed my attention after it was made or just looked too good around my neck to […]
Last week I finished adding on all the stone components that I’m going to be working with in this piece. Now I’ve begun to create the shape that will weave around the stones in the pendant. When working with multiple stones, I initially let the arrangement of the stones dictate what shape the piece […]
This is a piece that I created for a friend of mine. I had a lot of fun working with all of the seperate elements. To get started on the creation process, I sat down with the friend who commissioned the piece and talked with her about what colors and elements she was wanting to […]
This week I continued my work on this multi-stone piece. I am enjoying continuing to work on this piece! I am just about to get to the part that I find the most fun. As you can see in the photo, I attached two small orange stones. They are called orange kyanite. They are the […]
I thought that this piece was done a while ago. I was incorrect. I’ve written before about how rushing through a piece can lessen the structural integrity and design of the final result. What happened with this piece is similar and a little different. When I created this ring, I was hit with a […]
This week I’m continuing little by little to work on this fire agate pendant. I’m maintaining the symmetrical effect, and trying to obscure as little of the stone as possible. It was more noticeable it the last progress shot, but the gold piece of quartz is actually a bead. In my first progress photo, it […]
Yesterday I talked about taking a new approach to how I start my pieces. I like to step outside of my comfort zone in order to help myself grow as an artist. This project definitely helped me do that. I don’t usually make earrings. They are tricky to make because I need to duplicate everything […]
For this piece I changed up the order in which I usually make things. Typically, if I’m working with multiple stones I start by wrapping the largest stone. For this piece, I knew I wanted to play with the pearl beads, so thats where I started. I made the grouping with the beads and wire […]
Timing is everything. I’ve found that this holds true for many aspects of life, especially for my art. I’ve learned time and time again that if I push myself to work on a project when I’m not feeling quite right, I might do more harm than good. Sometimes my head is not in the right […]
Sometimes I make pieces spontaneously. I pick up a stone from my workspace because it speaks to me, and before I know it, I’ve created a pendant. Other times, my creation process is much more deliberate and slow going. When I get a stone that feels special to me, I want to make sure I […]
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