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A bronze frog
I was in Chicago, and spent some time visiting with Jan, a beading friend. We went to Ayla’s Originals, and Ayla has some beautiful things. If you like pearls, hers look especially lovely. Seeing Clasmeyer’s clasps in person was a treat. I did buy a couple of things, with this Bob Burkett bead just capturing…
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One orange bead
The seed beads are too square to make the nicest right angle weave, but I love the colors and finishes together….
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More olive!
The last piece of jewelry I made for myself was olive too. I DO work with other colors, these are just the colors I am using right now. I bought these cubic zirconia beads and pearls from Baubles and Beads, a splurge for me. I’d like to knot them. The strand of cz’s is probably…
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Looming idea for remaining warp
I’m getting closer to figuring out what I want to do with the rest of the warp. I’m pretty sure I want to do a version of the Hoffman painting I already did — narrower and taller (so I’ll add to the top). I’m going to have to mess even more with his painting, as…
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Looming — Inspiration
What’s the image that I’m doing, and how did I choose it? One of the feeds in my feed reader is Eye Level, done by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. February 29th’s post was of Hans Hoffman. Hoffman was born in Germany, came to the United States, and was an important influence in Color Field…