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Bernadette: Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2013 9:09 AM
I understand the benefit of blog posting, but have been getting such weird people writing to me that I have stopped all of my posts. Right now I think I need to get off the computer and get in to my studio to start creating. Hopefully I'll start writing to help me do just that-"create". |
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Bernadette: Posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2011 6:58 AM
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Bernadette: Posted on Thursday, January 27, 2011 8:10 PM
 When Life Gives You Iguana Poop, Make Moon Rocks. Last year I had five lovely students at the Art Center on Miami Beach. Some of you might remember me mentioning this, or maybe you were there. Anyway... the kiln in the studio melted everyone's pieces. I was mortified when I opened that kiln. The blood drained from my head, and I felt like I was going to faint when I saw all that iguana poop glowing in the vermiculite. That was a lesson that I don't need to learn twice. "Know your kiln". So this poop has been sitting in my studio for almost a year. Everytime I look at it, it reminds me of the expensive lesson that I learned the hard way. Of course I had to give everyone another bag of metal clay and studio time to remake their jewelry. Bless their hearts. They were so understanding, and nice about it. So now everytime I show someone the "dreaded poop" they say that it looks interesting. After 3 or 4 people said that, I started looking at it with "new eyes". Maybe I could turn the "poop" into something artistic and cool. I cleaned most of the vermiculite off with a radial bristle disk on my flexshaft, and tumbled them for about an hour. Now the poop was shiny and resembled" moon rocks" instead. From now on I will refer to them as the moon rocks since the transformation-thank God. One of the pieces started speaking to me in some alien tongue, but I understood ,and began to draw and design how I was going to use it in a new piece of jewelry. I made a pendant out of metal clay and it's sitting on my desk until tomorrow when I can work on it a little more. I'm so glad I didn't send these moon rocks to the refiner. I almost did. |
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Bernadette: Posted on Monday, January 03, 2011 6:33 PM
Monday Jan. 3, 2011- I've just updated the class dates on my website and hope to be able to post more. I still can't get my mind around the blogging thing, but I'll try to think of it like a journal. I don't read anyone elses blogs, so I don't understand why anyone would want to read mine or anyone elses, but I'll try to put some interesting things here that you might like to read. Sorry to say that my life isn't that juicy so you might be bored. Today Pam East called me to talk about having a class here in the future. She is a wonderful metal clay enamelist. I do hope that she will be able to come here through JAG. I was pleasantly shocked to win 4th place in the Lark Book Jewelry Design challenge. They made a book about the first one. They sent 30 well-known studio jewelers a bunch of specific materials and told them to use as many of the materials that they wanted in a piece of jewelry that they design and make.They could also add one material of their choice as a wildcard. So then Lark got together with Rio Grande and put the challenge out to anyone who wanted to enter. I being of unsound mind and judgement -decided to try it. I used some of the materials and metal clay as my wildcard. It was fun and I challenged my self because I have not had a lot of experience with riveting, and I did not solder anything on this piece. It's all tube rivited. I was very proud of myself.Check it out. The first 3 winners have made wonderful pieces.http://www.larkcrafts.com/jewelry-beading/jewelry-design-challenge-winners/
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Posted on Monday, November 01, 2010 7:36 PM
Welcome anyone who reads this blog. I would be so thrilled and honored if you were to write something to me. I'm new at this. Today I worked on a piece that I became really excited about because it looks better than i thought it would. Imagine that! Pictures to come soon. |
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Bernadette Denoux: Posted on Wednesday, October 27, 2010 4:22 PM
I'm posting my first blog post about my experience with the new fast fire bronze clay. If you try it, please please, please do a test firing first. I trust too easily with disastrous results. I'll tell you about it later.This is just to get started on this new blog things. |
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