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Friday, March 31, 2017

Motivation for a pendant or two

Not a lot of time for art today - quite a bit of cleaning up after the recent rain and wind; and catching up with an overseas artist friend.

But Fiona's birthday motivated me to make a simple natural looking pendant from timber and wood (Hairy Oak off cuts). I made two so that she had a choice. She chose the long slim one - so the other will go to a friend.

Making those pendants resulted in my finishing a couple more bone pendants.

And a couple of silver-plated EPNS and resin pendants - by-products of the ring commission I was doing.

Now I'm off to help do a few bits to prepare for dinner with the visitors tonight.

Friday, February 10, 2017

Making product and creating by-products

I was making a few pair of resin cuff links and watch earrings as stock for Entangle Living Art shop-gallery.

I always find that the process of making often results in other bits which I call process by-products.

The earrings started with watch bodies.

These needed to be drilled and have posts and crystals attached before polishing and attaching earwires. Five pair of watch earrings emerged. Some of the photos are a bit blurred - too much rushing.

The cufflinks started with old cuff links and a selection of watch cogs.

After pouring resin, sanding the pieces to shape and then polishing I managed to achieve 4 pair.

Left over resin created a few pendants.

Resin also went into creating a few watch pendants for three sisters to remember a father by.

Now of course there is the paper work and posting to be done. But it was good to achieve these outcomes today.

We will have bubbles tonight as Fiona completed another commission - adding story words to one of the large wall art pieces in our local IGA.

Sunday, February 5, 2017

Hope and Peace giveaway

At the moment there is quite a bit of despairing sadness that seems to be swirling around all of us. I thought a hope and peace giveaway could just add a little to the ledger side of hope and peace.

So I have decided to have a giveaway of ten pendants - mainly resin and watch part pendants. The photos are not great - bit of a rush and only took one photo of each.

I will send a pendant to the first 10 folk who leave a brief hope and/or peace statement or saying on my blog (not Facebook). So go for it - send a bit go hope and peace out there by mindfully adding you hope and peace statement. If you are interested in a particular pendant just add the number to corresponding to the piece to your statement.

Thanks for adding your voice to hope and peace.

Friday, February 3, 2017

Recycle and resin

I'm just finishing the sorting phase of the year so hopefully will get to the first of my art projects over the weekend.

The bench was still littered with bits and pieces that need to be sorted including: giving a bit of new life to brass and steel ring objects; and I had to salvage some of the resin works done by the school children. Fortunately there was left over resin from the children's work which I had fun making a few pieces.

First the brass and still rings. After drilling out rivets and removing excess metal the bits were ready for polishing. They came up well.

I needed to salvage some of the children's resin work as we had a batch that did not harden. In the flurry of activity on the day we probably just did not measure and mix part A and part B properly. Bit of a mess as you can see below.

So I decided to redo 10 glasses and 10 bags of rubbish and resin. I know it does not replace the children's unique work but I just did not want them to feel that did not have a reminder from the workshop.

With the leftover resin I was able to set in resin: a slightly badly formed silver-brass metal heart; some convict nails; brass offcuts and a silver-plated starburst bowl; and finished the layers of watch cogs piece I have gradually built up from excess resin.

©2017 Barry Smith - Layers of watch cogs - probably 10 layers - using up left over resin over the past year - set in hammered silver-plated bowl made from a goblet base. About 6-7cm in diameter and about 12-15mm deep.

These were good tasks to get finished on Friday. Almost time for pizza and red wine????

Friday, September 9, 2016

Polishing, packing and production

Today has been another of those here and there art days.

I have been polishing leaves for the citizens festival in Tatebayashi and cutting, stamping and polishing peace words for giving away in Japan; polishing art works and packing them for three exhibitions - Sano in Japan, Calondra Gallery and the Kenilworth art competition; finishing resin keyring for Entangle; and making a couple of pendants for a friend to buy as Christmas gifts (is it that time already).

Leaves and peace words for Japan.