My Latest Diva!

My 4th? Diva is finally--almost here. (She hasn't been prettied up yet!) Introducing Warrior Diva--she came out looking more like an ancient Greek warrior. Oh well...some men like a handsome woman! She's my first attempt at a dimensional diva. She has a few cracks at the neckline. I may leave them to add to the antiquities effect.

Observation: The beautiful colors that you sometimes get on bronze clay direct from the kiln is more apparent on the back. Next batch of bronze goes into the kiln backside up.

My unending thanks to Lis-el Crowley for her patience and helping nature.

Meet My New Business Partner!

Introducing Princess Poochie, my new top model and business partner. She's looking forward to meeting you at the Illinois Artisans Art Spree at the Thompson Center in Chicago on May 6 & 7. She's shown modelling "Princess Poochie's Partytime Necklace" and "Hamburger Eliza Doolittle's Partytime Necklace". Anybody there who mentions this post will receive a free gift!

Angularity

My necklace, which I posted a picture of on March 13, now has a name: Angularity and will be on exhibit at College of DuPage's Gahlberg Gallery from April 15 to May 15.

The exhibit opens on April 15, with a reception from 4 to 6 PM. Hope to see you there!

Been awhile...

I know...it's been awhile since my last post. I'll try to do better from now on. I haven't been doing much with metal clay--bronze or other, but have been busy with metalsmithing, studying under the phenomenal Suzan Rezac, view her gorgeous work at http://www.suzanrezac.com/.

I've been sidetracked, but have not given up, nor will I, on my bronze clay adventure--or my divas! What do you think of my "Secret Ingredient" necklace? I can't tell you what the secret ingredient is!

Oh, yes!! More news! Please save the dates for my first Art Sprees with Illinois Artisans at the Thompson Center in Chicago, on May 6 & 7 and September 16 & 17, 2010.

Hope to see you there.

More of My Bronze Clay Adventures

What do you think of My Medusa? She was taken from a mold that I made of a face on a doorpost of a church in Hungary. She looked like a Medusa to me...so she became. (Is that Sacreligious?) Today was my first success in heat patina, after three tries. I discovered that I needed to heat it from the top, not the bottom, and heat the heck out of it. Once I finally got some color, I did it again and got even more!

Divas 3 & 4 are ready!

Would you like to see my new Divas?

My First Bronze Firing!

Fired my first bronze pieces yesterday. I think, rather successfully! (What do you think?) Fired at the long schedule, cause I wasn't sure if one piece was too thick for the regular firing schedule...so, it was an all day affair. Couldn't make any glass beads, boo hoo! The colors in the bronze didn't come out, I think, as nice as my first ones did. I fired in coconut carbon--same as before. (The first ones, Deb fired for me.) What do you think of my Diva 3, and My Medusa--although she needs a minor repair. How about my evil eye! Don't know what I'm going to mount it on yet, but it's drilled for something.

Oh yeah, on the colors--not quite like the last ones, but, my photography needs work--they look fired in real life--but not in the pictures. And...I see that I have to clean up some charcoal chips!

til next time,

Susan