10/22/15

Caffeinated Resuscitation!

Vitruvian Man Lariat with amethyst.
Vitruvian Man.
Hey, hey, so hey, remember how I was talking all about not crea stuff recently and how I wasn't creating stuff recently and how lately I didn't seem to be making stuff?


Guess what I've been doing non-stop recently lately?
Aleph. Rustic assemblage lariat.
Aleph.
Yeah. What's up with that?

Could it be that I'm insane? Or that, well yes I am but that's nothing new, but rather that I've started allowing myself caffeine which I'm basically allergic to (i.e., it causes irritable bowel syndrome which is a nice way to say you shit your very soul out) so I hadn't been but now I have been and just talking like three imodium a day, everyday. Cuz it turns out imodium  has no negative side effects and doesn't interfere with anything in any way. And also cuz I discovered this stuff called electrolyte powder so I'm not in pain from how parched I am from the dehydration which caffeine also causes me- hey can you tell I've been having caffeine? This is me after half a cup of tea like 4 hours ago. That's how little caffeine I can normally drink. This entire paragraph was so unnecessary for me to share. Do you want to hear more about my diarrhea? Cuz I'll do it. I'll share. Don't tempt me.
Plight Your Troth. Dutch girl bracelet rustic assemblage with tin and art beads.
Plight Your Troth.
This is gonna be my new threat- if I don't get a certain amount of comments/sales, I'm going to go into details about my bowel movements- AND YOU'LL ALL BE FORCED TO READ. There'll be a quiz before you get any more eye-candy. Wow, I gotta take a few calming breaths.
So these bracelets and all the earrings with light blueish tin you're about to see further below are all from one Uruguayan tin I just cut up. And I still have enough for two more bracelets and two more sets of cone earrings. If I decide on cones or ever make more or whatever.
Monachopsis. Brown rustic assemblage bracelet with salvaged tin.Monachopsis.
(This one already sold?)
Above in blue and here the three first pitted beads are my polybabies. I made a bunch.
Play. Rustic assemblage victorian tribal bracelet in red and black.
Play.
Check this wacky guy.

Will someone want some random dude on their wrist? Hm. Maybe a European who's really into futbol?
Sea So Deep. Blue bangle stack.
Sea So Deep.
I was looking at some previous stacks in my sold section. I'd sell them in sets of like 80, I swear. What was wrong with me? No wonder I couldn't get a decent picture!

So yeah, like I was saying, I'm back baby. While I'm not head over heels with the photo/listing process, the making is back baby! Idk but I'm in like the zone, that tunnel vision, suddenly 5 hours have passed type of mojo. Amazing. I'm so grateful.
Igniparous.  Tin, amber and polymer earrings.
Igniparous.
Here's that tin I mentioned.
Bluestocking. Rustic salvaged tin and polymer earrings.
Bluestocking.
With new polybabies.
Brave and Quiet. Polymer and salvaged tin earrings.
Brave and Quiet.
So it's a couple days after I wrote the beginning of this and even without caffeine I now function. A switch has been flipped and I don't know why. Certainly I had to wait and completely give up on the idea of ever getting any impetus. I was looking up medical interpreter jobs for cryintabetsy. It's like a let-it-go-before-you-can-get-it-back kinda thing mebbeh?
Cosmogyral. Polymer art beads, citrine and urchin spike earrings.
Cosmogyral.
The texture on these polies comes from rock salt, but what makes it pop is the painting. First these are just striped white and translucent, then I paint a wash of dark acrylic and let it mostly dry. Then I sand off the coat of acrylic, so it only stays in the recesses. This also smoothes out the surface anywhere that pressing the rock salt in made it bulge. THEN I dab on some amber-colored alcohol ink but only on the top surface. You can do this with a finger or coptic marker, not with those applicator pads cuz those will allow some ink to seep into the crevices.
Pliocene. Rustic assemblage earrings with biwa pearl, labradorite and polymer art beads.
Pliocene. Rustic assemblage earrings with biwa pearl, labradorite and ...
That proly made not sense. The texture here is made by poking a tool into each bead repeatedly, more on that later.
Nepheliad. White ceramic cones and pearl earrings.
Nepheliad. White ceramic cones and pearl earrings.
My inspiration here was to put little lace-edged bezel settings under these lovely cones, allowing a sort of chandelier situation to grow below. Naw, that's clever I don't care what you say.
Biognosy. Green asymmetrical rustic assemblage earrings.
Biognosy.
Man I love a successful pair of asymmetrical! Maybe I just love them so much because I see them displayed like above, together and not on a person. I wish people sent me pictures of themselves wearing my stuff. But the couple times I modeled my earrings for myself, yeah, I was always surprised at how flattering they looked. They don't just sit on either side of your face, the aesthetic sum is greater than the parts somehow. Which is, um, proly why people wear jewelry. Right.
Luminiferous Ether. Assemblage earrings with Ethiopian opals.Luminiferous Ether.
I landed me quite a prize. Someone was selling 50 little etheopian opal beads for $15, what's up wit dat? Check the flash.




Now how about some WIP?


Check out these babies! See where the texture makes a soft zig-zag? Sort of a sig-sag if you will? Ok, so I used this tool here to quickly poke a row of marks in one direction, then turned the bead and went the other direction. 
Because these marks were individually made and not from a stamp, it has a very organic look. I also painted these recesses a dark grey and sanded the surface as well. There were other textures involved and other paints as you can see. Mostly I just mucked around a lot.

Trying out some poly pins.
Oh so RomAntiqueSoul sent me these vintage unfinished kokeshi forms and I decided to paint them in shades of grey. Even doodled my ideas. I added the ruler so you can see how tiny they are, which is why I couldn't get the marks I made as smooth as I wanted. (Actually scraped a lot of it off with my exacto knife and tissue blade. Cuz wood is soft like that.) But yeah so I'm thinking of nailing those settings in the pic to the bottoms so I can do a dangly thing.

Ages ago I put a really thick layer of resin on this one picture that had too much going on for me to figure out which snippets to cut out. Sometimes when the resin is already there, it makes the selection process easier for some reason. So I cut these out and I'm thinking of riveting them to tin ovals as you can sort of see top left. But I'll do it after I give the tin some curve so I can use these in bracelets. Yaya.
Just a gorgeous section of tin is all. U+2192.svg
I have so many vaguely worked on bits and pieces but I love it! I've been flex-shafting the backs off some unwieldy geodes which came off keychains in Uruguay. It's a pain but the results are lovely.









Today, instead of animals, I want to share cool gifs from a site called Sploid:Insense burning in macro

A pill dissolving in water

Marines doing a landing exercise in South Korea


Tinted liquid "cosmos"


Which I liked so much I made more gifs.


Yeah. I made this gif (just googled how to) from this lovely movie.

Video shows how Disney recycled scenes in its animation movies
And finally, a bit of cuteness- there's a video which shows how Disney recycled some animation through the ages because drawing is hard.
And since you were good and put up with my poop talk, here you go. You get one animal gif.


10 comments:

gretchennation said...

Happy to hear you got your groove back, I know how worthless I feel when it just isn't there. Then I start feeling guilty about wasting time, too and it goes on repeating itself.
That tin cup must have been just covered with figures, was it that rough looking or is that more of your aging magic?
Your new polybabies are yummy, can't wait to see how you use the pins. Some of the old flower frogs have got tiny spikes that might work for poking...or even a cat or dog grooming comb. The effect you got with the paint certainly gives them a cool ancient look. It's all good. :)

Penelope said...

So basically what you are doing here is poisoning yourself so you can work? Jeez- talk about suffer for your art...I thought my staying up 'til 4am thinking about shit was suffering enough!

Those siggy poly marks remind me of a style of pottery made in Bristol about 400 years ago, can't remember what it's called and Google won't help. I had a coronary over those white cone beads.

Willow Studio said...

Welcome back Miz Fanci!

Anonymous said...

Fun post!
Yeah, the chandelier thing IS clever - very! Why have I never seen that anywhere before?

Beatnheart said...

yah...i agree with Penelope...can just hear your ma hollering at you over that one...maybe it's nature telling you to chill? or I don't know...what I have realized, is that you truly could make writing your career or passion or whatever cause you writing is highly entertaining...I would love a novel...then you could make a bunch of money and made stuff out of real gold...that would slow you down!

no matter what...you are the coolest chick out there...i luv every thing you do...psyco or not..
now, i need a coffee..and it's nearly 4pm...not a great idea...planning a evening of tossing and turning...

Beatnheart said...

tell all the groupies that I just did a bunch of faux fanciful devices bead caps (wrecked and wasted done for you) in my etsy store...going very fast so grab while you can...
that for the shameless self promotion ..

TheEuropeanMarina said...

Your polybabes are kicking a$$ and the new texture with the zigzags is wonderful!

CraftyHope said...

Your posts and creativity feed my soul! I'm sorry to hear your tummy's been upset, but am glad you got your groove back. Everything is amazing as always. Thank you for sharing you talent with us!

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