Another wax ring

Sometimes I just want to complicate my life for the fun of it, and wax work lets you do that. For this ring’s design I drew a squiggly line on masking tape, put it on the piece of wax and got to carving.  Slowly the ring I had in my head started emerging in 3D.

Now, if you’ve ever done wax jewelry you know that no matter how beautiful it may look before casting, it will definitely need some work afterward in metal.  I was cool with that, but didn’t count on a casting mishap, so there was a missing section which had to be reconstructed.  Due to the repetitive linework of the ring, we could fix it by making a mold of the ring, injecting a couple, taking a section which coincided with the lines in the missing piece and melting te two together (thank you Jordi for the creative problem solving ).

Now the ring is sitting on my table, and I’m seriously regretting all the nooks and crannies I made… It’s been a few weeks already… will I finish it anytime soon???

Succulent rings

This is the next-to-last step of these rings. I decided to polish the outer edges since the white is going to wear off quickly anyway, and the contrast looks cute I think.

Any takers?

Blackbook Costa Rica 09

I am participating in the first ever Blackbook Costa Rica. I have some trouble with big blank pages, but I think in the end it came out ok. I wanted to do something related to jewelry / silversmithing, so there it is…

Typography project

I love type. That’s it.

There’s more letters and hopefully the alphabet will be completed soon. Here’s what I’ve got so far.

Aftermath of a wax frenzy

Succulents and giant beads….

Will post the next step soon.

Keeping up with the Jones’

or Joneses… however you spell it.

I’ve been trying to keep up with the times lately, getting on Facebook, Twitter, blogging, flickr, and updating the shop… So please pop by soon!

Lots of wax

Wax carving is one of my favorite jewelery techniques / activities.  The potential of wax is incredible, and the material itself is so easy to work with, the sky is the limit.

Here’s a few pics from my wax frenzy a few weeks back.

Holiday rush starting…

or is it?

Given the economic events of the past few weeks, people are cutting back on spending and some businesses are suffering more than others.  Jewelry, being a non staple consumer item (for most people), is a luxury not many will deside to splurge on these coming holidays.  What to do?  Will a “free shipping” sale do the trick, a 2 for 1?  Or should we try and sell tomatoes at the corner?  Give me your two cents, please.

*Photo credits: Dr.DeNo via Flickr

The sketch deficiency

I have a problem: I have the worst discipline when it comes to drawing and sketching potential projects.  This is a problem because sketching is a very important part of the creative process.  I’ve tried carrying a blank notebook with me at all times, getting colored pencils, and this has only gotten me an extensive collection of sketchbooks and lots of colors lying around…  Is this the equivalent of writer’s block???  Well, I don’t think so.  Maybe I’ve got a secret fear of blank pages, the possibilities are intimidating.  Weird enough, I get almost all of my designs done with the modeling wax directly.  Why is there a difference?  I think I just suck at drawing…

*Photo credits: Abigail A. Percy via Flickr

Resin tutorials

Just because I don’t know how to work with resin, doesn’t mean I can’t spread the love.  I found these tutorials on YouTube.

Ok, technically I’m spreading the link.