Custom Order

I am working on a custom brooch for a customer.  She first said she wanted a donkey but I couldn't find any donkey images.  I did find a burro.

So I have sawn the burro image out and am now working on backgrounds for the image.
My three choices:

I love the way the little ribbon on the guitar will wave above the main part of the brooch.

Which background do you like?

And here it is all finished:

River City Festival

This weekend I am heading to Philadelphia to participate in a craft show/ festival with my son.

Check out his work at www.siometalworks.com.  Some pretty cool things!

And the festival is   Fishtown River City Festival Saturday afternoon.

Artists Previewing the SKARTS Studio Tour

We had an inspirational, fun, amazing evening touring each other's studios on the SKARTs studio Tour last night:

Artist Studio Tours

This weekend I am participating with 20 other artist in an Artist Studio Tour to support SKARTS here in my home town.  We got a peak of the studios last night and they are inspiring, surprising , all different and represent much local talent.

Here is a peek at mine:

Studio Tour

I have been cleaning and reorganizing all week to make my studio more hospitable to visitors.  On October 3 and 4, my studio will be open along with many others in Skaneateles as a fund raiser for SKARTS.  This is your chance to get a glimpse of how and where we work.

http://skarts.org/artist-studio-tours-2015/

Clothesline Festival 2015

I am gearing up for the 2015 Clothesline Festival in Rochester this Saturday and Sunday.  Booth A2!

http://mag.rochester.edu/events/clothesline-festival

A slate full of brooches made from vintage candy molds and new disc necklaces!!!!!

Private Lessons-Part 2

I worked with a wonderful woman yesterday who wanted to learn how to use the images from the lowly bottle cap.  I showed her how to pull the plastic liner out, flatten the bottle cap, trim it, sand the edges and to punch a circle in it. We stayed cool by working in my basement studio.  A fun and productive afternoon.  She intends to use these bottle cap images for a piece of assemblage art.  She told me that she is being drawn more and more to metal.  Not a bad thing, in my opinion!