Well, its been a long time since I last posted, but no biggie. Anyway, here is my interpretation Mary Hettmansperger's folded earrings. I was inspired by Deryn Mentock's challenge to do the entire series of projects from Mary's book, "Wrap, Stitch, Fold & Rivet". The earrings were almost instantaneous. Just bend the brass, wrap and add beads and my lovely Grandmother's embroidery floss. I made the spinner necklace which was pretty easy too. I textured a piece of brass, and since it was not annealled it bent and went nice and wavy, then I used an overcooked fine silver bezel plate with a Sulphur Butterfly Wing in doming resin, a copper disk left from the kid's metals class I just taught and a PMC bit printed from a rubber stamp. I think it worked out rather well. I have been waiting for the correct format to experiment with the butterfly, moth and dragonfly wings.
Tomorrow I will be putting in some of the projects from the metals class I taught at the Lander Art Center. I had two sessions of 10 kids for a total of eight hours each. They soldered, forged, sawed, drilled, stamped, roller-milled, and cut disks and domed them. With a few exceptions it was a success.
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