the thought

Since I'm jobless at this point, I'm using as much time to make jewelry to stock my etsy shop and trying to come up with new ideas. I found a ton of those laminate samples that you get from home improvement places in the back room of the metals lab and they've been sitting in my room ever since. So today I tried to sketch up some ideas of what to do with them since there was no way I was going to be able to work out in the garage.
I'm going to experiment this week. End result to come!

A space to work

So, I graduated. It's strange and exciting and depressing all at once. Definitely the worst part of leaving school was having to say goodbye to my own bench in the metals lab.

I've been working at this bad boy for the past two years and it was absolutely perfect. It was big, plenty of drawers and right next to the microwave! The back room was tiny but the walls were lined with everyone's different inspiration and pictures. I just loved that room.

This is my new work bench. Yes, it is an old set of kitchen cabinets with a bench pin screwed onto it and it's in the garage so I always have a fear of bees attacking me (have I mentioned my intense fear of bees??) and I can't really work on ungodly hot summer days. But hey, it works and it's a free space. Luckily it's comfortable out this week so I'm putting of the dread of finding a job to make new jewelry.
Happy graduation! 

Scissors Brooch

I made this new pin a couple of weeks ago. Since a lot of my 2D works deals with overlapping linear drawings of sewing notions I decided to make jewelry using the same technique. I just traced one of my prints and pierced the design out of brass. I love how this format makes the designs even more abstracted. I'm thinking of making different pieces of jewelry and break out of the circle. I'm super excited!

EDIT: I lost this brooch!! I'm so sad about it but I hope someone found it and loves wearing it.

menagerie

Since I was little I always collected little plastic animals amongst a lot of other little things. But I had these animals for a while and never knew what to do with them so I figured I'd make some jewelry!

hippo pendant, now on etsy

squirrel pin, now on etsy

squirrel cameo, now on etsy

blue elephant, now on etsy

duck pond ring

squirrel ring, size 7

poodle ring, nfs

Snail ring, nfs

Everything besides the duck pond ring are one of a kind pieces because I really have no idea where I got those animals. And the poodle ring and snail ring are not for sale because those are my two favorite, the poodle came from a polly pocket set and the snail was always on my dad's dresser and eventually he gave it to me. 

I set up a new section in my shop called menagerie where all of these little creatures are for sale. I can't wait until one of them are adopted!

 

 

 

Notions : BFA Exhibition

Last week my BFA exhibition was displayed in the art building and it's such a relief to have it done at this point. The first three pictures are of my installation of the giant pincushions and images of just a couple of my jewelry pieces. I had about 15 pieces of jewelry and 8 pincushions in total.

Printmaking

Right now, my show is up! I'm so happy with what I've made but now I'm already wondering what it's gonna lead to. But for today I wanted to deviate from my metal work and display what I'm doing in other classes specifically relief printmaking. These are images from my first two projects.

A Constant Ringing, linocut, 2012

Accumulation, woodcut, 2012

Accumulation monoprint, woodcut, 2012

Accumulation Offset, woodcut, 2012

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Geometric Fish pendant by maldonadojoyas

I just discovered maldonadojoyas's shop last night and I love all of the geometric colorful patterns and the funny fish pendant above!