May 14, 2013 Experiments in Cabinetry Two drawers, each 45x95x25mm internal diameter, in a sturdy case. All made from the same layered-painted-and-varnished paper I use for jewellery. Share this:Share on TumblrTweetMoreEmailPrintPocket Categories Uncategorized Comment: 1
January 25, 2013 Choral artwork I’ve been donated a pile of these beautiful choral & organ scores to work with, now they’re unfit for use. Really looking forward to starting off on them. First up, a set of jewellery using sheet music from Handel’s Messiah. I’m still trying to decide what to do with the cover of this one, though – it’s such a gorgeous... Share this:Share on TumblrTweetMoreEmailPrintPocket Categories collage/jewellery Comments: 0
January 17, 2013 Valentine’s Day I’m not a fan of the consumption-and-expectation culture, nor of the idea that love is best expressed by garish red heart-shaped dustcatchers from a High Street shop. But there are a lot of other ways to express love, and even when I don’t mark a celebration myself it’s a very rewarding thing to help others do it. So: here’s one... Share this:Share on TumblrTweetMoreEmailPrintPocket Categories Uncategorized Comments: 5
October 15, 2012 Raffle Prizes I was asked a while back if I’d donate something to a raffle in aid of Special Effect, who specialise in adapting console and computer controls for physically disabled children and adults – that’s everything from making a 360 controller a bit easier to use, all the way to tailoring eye-tracking software for the otherwise utterly paralysed. I’d been planning... Share this:Share on TumblrTweetMoreEmailPrintPocket Categories jewellery Comments: 0
September 25, 2012 Destruct Testing I’ve accidentally put a couple of pieces through the wash before, and they’ve been fine. However, I just found this in the pocket of a shirt I put on, which had been through a 90-degree white wash. So that’s a really useful data point! Share this:Share on TumblrTweetMoreEmailPrintPocket Categories jewellery Comments: 0
September 6, 2012 Precious Non-Metals Paper is amazing stuff. Historically very special and magical, but it’s so much a reflex these days to think of it as extremely cheap. We say “cheap as chips”, and don’t even think about the paper the chips come wrapped in. The art papers I use are rather more expensive – I’ve been doing some research to compare what I... Share this:Share on TumblrTweetMoreEmailPrintPocket Categories jewellery/printmaking Comments: 0
August 9, 2012 Blodeuwedd mask Lleu Llaw Gyffes was cursed by his reluctant mother – he could never have weapons & armour, a bride, or even a name until she gave them to him. His foster-father, Gwydion ap Dôn, tricked her into bestowing the first and the last, but there’s nothing she could do about the second, and frankly that family was screwed up enough... Share this:Share on TumblrTweetMoreEmailPrintPocket Categories collage Comment: 1
July 21, 2012 Recent projects I’ve been working on a few new paper-jewellery lines recently, partly in preparation for trading at Alchemist Dreams’ Storytelling Speakeasy. Here are a few of them – as always, click through to Flickr for a better look. Share this:Share on TumblrTweetMoreEmailPrintPocket Categories jewellery Comments: 0
June 9, 2012 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman This is the latest permutation of my text jewellery – it’s made not from an existing book, but from a handwritten copy of the first page, covered with a layer of washi, cut into jewellery blanks, and then edged & varnished as normal. I love the combined effect of the fountain pen ink, the glue (just watery enough to affect... Share this:Share on TumblrTweetMoreEmailPrintPocket Categories jewellery Comments: 0
April 20, 2012 Shakespearean jewellery I’ve been making quite a few of these lately, from an old copy of Midsummer Night’s Dream rescued from the recycling. It’s the same technique I’ve been using for pendants, layered artists’ mountboard sealed with acrylic & varnish; the colours are Talens Ecoline watercolour inks, which I’m really falling in love with. The cheap paper (it’s a Wordsworth Classics edition)... Share this:Share on TumblrTweetMoreEmailPrintPocket Categories jewellery Comments: 2
