Waiting.

Over the past week, I made several spoons that vary in size and texture.  They are in a bisque right now and are almost ready to unload.  I was hoping I would be able to take them out before or during class, but the kiln is still over 500 degrees....looks like I'll have to wait.
By the end of the day, I'll be able to start forming my spiculums for the handle.

Run Rabbit!

This is not really related to jewelry in any way, but I'm so excited about it, I'm sure there will be a sculpture coming soon!



Final Project: Spoon

The final project is a bit of a challenge because it needs to actually function.  We are making spoons.  Therefore, we need to consider what metals we can eat off of (silver) and how to construct the bowl of the spoon.  I plan on making the bowl of my spoon out of porcelain, which will be held by a silver stem.  Porcelain is very strong and will be food safe.  Hopefully, this will prevent any bending that might happen if I were to use fine silver as the bowl of the piece. 
My theme is reptiles and I stumbled across this pretty cool family of lizards.  They come in all different colors and they are all very interesting to me.  They are called Anolis Lizards.



NCECA Seattle

NCECA is for ceramics, but it was refreshing and gave me some good ideas across the board.  Here are some pictures that I took.

This is at the Aquarium

This is a wall of gum.

The sign in the back says "Help save our oceans, eat meat."  Looks pretty appetizing...

And here are some images from the train.

Somewhere between North Dakota and Montana

Riding along the Puget Sound in Washington, right outside of Seattle

Somewhere in North Dakota

Sketches

These are my initial ideas for the eyewear piece.  I didn't get a chance to show anybody, so here is my proof :)



My inspiration was from the eye of a chameleon.  I thought of creating a sort of hair stick that held a sphere on the end that you could peer into.  But, I thought that the chain may get tangled in hair too easy and that is something I don't want to mess with.  After that, I thought about making spectacles for the opera, but I was unsatisfied with how rigid it was looking.  So, I came up with a pendant/magnifying glass concept (not shown here).