Working Through Motivation Loss

OK, I know I said in my last post that I would practice sawing this week, but I realized that I have very few saw blades left.  This isn’t an excuse, well, maybe it is, but I really don’t have enough saw blades to use on practice.  I broke two today making a brooch.  I [...]

Working in a Series

Why do we as artists sometimes choose to work in a series?  Sometimes artists never have intentional series, but instead work through different periods in their careers.  In the jewelry world there are a lot of production series or lines, but working in a series doesn’t always have to be about production.
As you know by [...]

Elements

Lately I’ve been kind of stuck in the summer doldrums, and I haven’t been working too much on new ideas.  One thing that I have been working on (or at least thinking about) has been my Elements series.  I don’t work a whole lot in series, but I wanted to explore a theme that started [...]