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Showing posts with label bottle caps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bottle caps. Show all posts

Thursday, September 3, 2015

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!

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Bottle Cap Class at the Gandee Gallery

I had a great time today with a super group of women making resin filled bottle caps.  Think tiny frames.  Thanks to all who attended.


Thursday, May 29, 2014

Bottle Caps 2

More resin filled bottle caps I made prepping for the class on Saturday.  www.gandeegallery.com

Monday, May 26, 2014

Bottle Caps

Join me at the Gandee Gallery in Fabius NY next Saturday for a class focusing on bottle caps and turning them into wearable art. We will be making tiny assemblages with resin and making earrings  More information can be found at:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gandee-Gallery/141634551545

or www.gandeegallery.com


Wednesday, January 1, 2014

2014 Rock Concert Charm Bracelet

While doing the Mayday Underground Craft Show at the Rochester Armory in November, I picked up bottle caps from the parking lot.  Since the venue has many rock concerts, that is what I imagined the bottle caps coming from and named the bracelet for those events.  I backed each bottle cap with a piece of tin to provide a nicer view through the window on the back side.  The bottle caps are attached to  textured brass with tiny brass rivets. The chain is made out of steel and brass.

Happy New Year!


Tuesday, September 3, 2013

New tin brooches made from tin images that are hand sawn and riveted onto printed tin backgrounds.  The frames are held together with tiny tube rivets.  The circle attachments are all domed to give some extra visual interest at different heights.  They will be for sale this weekend at the Clothesline Show in Rochester.

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Fresh from all of my fun at Haystack, I have been looking at new designs.  These pendants are some new ideas. I have combined tin, bottle caps, beads, wooden ruler pieces and steel jump rings.

Monday, July 29, 2013

I am just back from 2 amazing weeks working with Bob Ebendorf and Marissa Sanehotlz at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on the beautiful coast of Maine.  We worked at capturing, securing, found items on or with metal.  We were instructed  to be playful and creative with materials.  So much fun and  lots of work along with lots of freshly baked cookies, yummy meals
and even a lobster dinner. This is a charm bracelet which includes steel wire, copper, a pottery chard, bottle cap, and a Japanese coin.
This can be worn as either a brooch or pendant and is made with brass, rusted steel, found mandible, pearls, and a piece of old jewelry.

This brooch combines a concrete flower, tin image, costume jewelry and textured copper.


These three are from the paintbrush bead  series I have started and will continue to work on. A tin mold, bottle caps, pieces of jewelry, steel wire and tin have been used as well.


Sunday, February 10, 2013