My New Years resolution
Kelly gave me a beautiful hand bound book for Christmas this year. Handbound by her! Her intention was to have me record my life in this not so little book. I am a bit intimidated by it because it has hundreds of pages and I don't have a clue howi I'm going to fill all of those pages.
This year I have done something I seldom ever do, (mostly because I don't believe in it) I made a New Year's resolution. My resolution is to make one piece of art for every week of the year. Not so difficult eh? Well, here it is January 19 and I'm just getting my first piece finished.
I have been working as often as possible, but I just haven't been accomplishing as much as I would like. I have several pieces of silver jewellery under construction, and I have a water colour painting started. Finishing things seems to be more of a challenge than coming up with ideas for things to make or paint.
So, I'm going to combine my two challenges, to create 52 pieces and to begin to fill the pages of Kelly's book. I am going to do my art and put a note and a picture of each piece that I do into the book. I thought since I was doing that I would also enter them here in my journal with the . hope that I can get some constructive criticism from you folks as well. If you have any suggestions for improvements, suggestions for pieces, etc. please leave me a comment.
Well, here we go, the first two pieces for the year. The first you may have seen already, maybe not, I can't remember if I posted a picture of this or not. It was begun several weeks ago but it was just finished this week. It is a brooch made from silver scraps that have been left from other projects. I have been collecting the scraps with the intention of melting them down and forging them into something useful. I was looking at photographs of steampunk inspired art made with clock parts and I thought why not use the bits of silver for something similar. When the basic design was finished Kelly said it reminded her of jazz music so I call the piece "Jazz in silver". I just got the brooch back made and put on this week.
The second is a salt spoon that I made to go in our feast chest for events. I've been thinking of ways of creating spoons that will have a larger bowl and be a little more historically accurate (except for the fact that I work in silver only and the majority of spoons that have been found in the archaeology digs I have been reading about are of other metals or combinations of metals). So, my little salt spoon is not historically accurate in design but I'm fairly pleased with it. I learned a lot from it's construction and I will make the next one more period in style. (spoons in period would have had long round handles as opposed to my flat, squared handle, and they usually had a rounded knob or other design on the end of the handle). Anyway, this is something I will try again just for the fun of it. The spoon is forged from a heavy guage wire, not cast in a mold.
This year I have done something I seldom ever do, (mostly because I don't believe in it) I made a New Year's resolution. My resolution is to make one piece of art for every week of the year. Not so difficult eh? Well, here it is January 19 and I'm just getting my first piece finished.
I have been working as often as possible, but I just haven't been accomplishing as much as I would like. I have several pieces of silver jewellery under construction, and I have a water colour painting started. Finishing things seems to be more of a challenge than coming up with ideas for things to make or paint.
So, I'm going to combine my two challenges, to create 52 pieces and to begin to fill the pages of Kelly's book. I am going to do my art and put a note and a picture of each piece that I do into the book. I thought since I was doing that I would also enter them here in my journal with the . hope that I can get some constructive criticism from you folks as well. If you have any suggestions for improvements, suggestions for pieces, etc. please leave me a comment.
Well, here we go, the first two pieces for the year. The first you may have seen already, maybe not, I can't remember if I posted a picture of this or not. It was begun several weeks ago but it was just finished this week. It is a brooch made from silver scraps that have been left from other projects. I have been collecting the scraps with the intention of melting them down and forging them into something useful. I was looking at photographs of steampunk inspired art made with clock parts and I thought why not use the bits of silver for something similar. When the basic design was finished Kelly said it reminded her of jazz music so I call the piece "Jazz in silver". I just got the brooch back made and put on this week.
The second is a salt spoon that I made to go in our feast chest for events. I've been thinking of ways of creating spoons that will have a larger bowl and be a little more historically accurate (except for the fact that I work in silver only and the majority of spoons that have been found in the archaeology digs I have been reading about are of other metals or combinations of metals). So, my little salt spoon is not historically accurate in design but I'm fairly pleased with it. I learned a lot from it's construction and I will make the next one more period in style. (spoons in period would have had long round handles as opposed to my flat, squared handle, and they usually had a rounded knob or other design on the end of the handle). Anyway, this is something I will try again just for the fun of it. The spoon is forged from a heavy guage wire, not cast in a mold.