What’s a girl to do? New studio isn’t completed and the old studios are in such disarray from packing that she can’t work in them. I know! She should make some jewelry maquettes with the extra enticements of a challenge. My friend, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, has challenged the regular visitors to his Artlog to make maquettes …
There are many, many tools an artist employs in the creation of his or her work. Among the standard tools I use [Xacto knife, brushes, pencils, scissors, gravers, saws, drills, files, etc.] I am a devotee of using the computer to aid in creating and analyzing my designs. A couple of years ago, my family …
Goodness, it’s been since December that I’ve posted anything here. What can I say? I’ve been waiting for a window of opportunity, I suppose. Was it the pre- and post-holiday stuff got the better of me? Or has it been the process of having a new studio built? By now, in mid-February, I have to …
I’ve been lucky to know, since I was about five years old, that I wanted to be an artist. Once, at about that age, I was painting in watercolor on sheets of blank paper, when a skeptical relative said with a sneer, “So, what do you think you are, an artist?” “YES, I AM!” I …