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Beeswax
The beeswax smells amazing when melting and holds it smell once formed. Honey bees,…
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Candle making
And candles. Beeswax candles in silicon and lately acrylic molds. Seems all yellow beeswax…
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More experiments in wax
Studio now filled with drawers filled with wax, wax working and forming tools. Initialling…
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Jewellery LAB – Session 6
This last session started with a show and tell of our Session 5 necklace…
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Jewellery LAB – Session 5
Show and tell material trials. Then a 15 minute exercise to make a necklace…
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Jewellery LAB – Session 4
I missed this one – on a road trip down south, destination Routeburn –…
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Jewellery LAB – Session 3
Present clay objects. Select one to base next exercise on. Estela proposed this one……
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Louise Bourgeois – In Private View
Visited this exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery. A few works that got the…
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Jewellery LAB – Session 2
A presentation of collage homework (see previous entry), followed by a quick response challenge…
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Jewellery LAB – Session 1
Great to be part of Jewellery LAB a cohert of 10 makers – with…
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Conics in action
A wooden rimu cone (slicing is problematic), and elliptical forms using the voids to…
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Conceptualising
The beauty in imperfection, productive failures, disruption and happy accident. The gap between idealised…
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Building momentum
Recent activity. Progressing the commission. Have forged ahead with conic sections. Rimu now with…
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Let’s get to it
First entry in new blog – just for me. And possibly Jeff (haha). Hi…