My First Collge Level Show, and My First Collge Level Win

Tonight was the opening of the 4th annual Intercollegiate Metals Exhibition,
This is a juried exhibition of jewelry
and metalwork from the students and faculty of
seven different universities across the nation!
i was lucky enough to get my cactus piece in, and
even more lucky by wining second prize in the jewelry category!!!
How awesome is that!!!

The show had so much awesome talent and amazing work!
everyone who can should go check it out!
its at the gallery 100 on mill and 10th st.

Wild Orchid Makes it to the Front Page!

Dove Takes Flight

TA DAAAA!!!!!

Lost and Abandoned Memory

On one of my antique store raids, i came
across this metal box, to discover that within
this metal box, was a slide viewer and slides
from the 1960's of a trip to the grand canyon.
They were Abandoned and Forgotten in life's movements.
Memories long gone, ghosts of what was.
I bought them and took them home to give them
meaning again.

So this is what i came up with.
and may i say im REALLY excited
to see what all comes out of this series :)
in normal light the piece looks nice and simple
and you cant really see anything but black
in the slide. But hold it up to light and there's
your hidden oasis, at your very finger tips.
let your imagination take you away to a calm place,
where water is streaming, and birds calling, a prefect
getaway from today's busy world. The Negative shows
a lovely stream/creek flowing down rocks of all sizes
with a sweet sky and trees.

Every Cactus Has its Thorns

WOW has it been FOREVER since
ive posted anything!
o.o!
anyway ill be doing a lot of catch up and
you'll probably be seeing a new post
every other day lol

ANYWAY
todays post is about my final piece
for my enameling class!
so with out farther or due,
here it is!!!

heres a progress shot,
before it was all attached and
patinad

and heres the final piece!!!
i literally had no sleep
all weekend working on this!
i do have to say Ted McDonah is an awesome professor.
you can check out his work on his blog
(http://metalmonger.blogspot.com/)
im really happy with the way this turned out
even though i an avid desert hater
i really enjoyed making this!
though im still not sure why i picked
to do something deserty if i hate it so,
i think its the fact its can be really pretty in the
spring, but everything you touch pokes
and pricks you, so maybe the relation between
you my see a beautiful flower but in the end
it stabs you and brings you pain.
just because its pretty doesn't mean
its something good.

so its kinda like my orchids, they look
pretty but their are nicks, bumps and bruises in the
finish, and its those bumps, bruises and nicks that make
us all unique, nothing is ever perfect.

its lifes imperfections that shows
everyone who we really are.

preview 2

still not done yet,
im gonna tone down the background to the
tucan and then finish attaching the pieces,
then set the tucan on its plate,
then attach it all together!
:D

Preview

okay so this is what i am working on at the moment!
im really excited about this, what was supposed to
be a sample now, epic piece of awesomness.
im going to be patinaing all the leaves with a dark
green, and some liver of sulfered black,
then all the flowers, frogs birds and ext.
will be prismacolored!
and then the whole thing will be blind rivited!