Make Art Monday!
Here’s a little beaded assemblage that I made using an antique print block as the base. Don’t ask me what it’s for…I don’t know!
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Cormorant
Artist: Rebecca Brown
Website: RBrown Designs
How do I describe my work….
Nature orientated, detailed, realistic and fun. I don’t like “serious” art, people should enjoy it not be depressed by it. With beads it is pretty hard to do something depressing anyway but I have seen it done. I picked my business name so that it could […]
Art Attack Thursday!
Medusa
Mary Tafoya has a publishing record as long as your arm…books and magazines…and she is an award winning bead artist who has exhibited her work all over the country. You’ll enjoy visiting her website and taking in all the detailed beauty. Mary makes wearables as well as free-standing and decorative pieces. Feast your […]
So, I’ve managed to end the year still on schedule! I spent the month of December thinking about how the word beaver makes me giggle in a very juvenile way, and realizing that I really didn’t want to do an actual portrait of a beaver on my beaded page for November’s Beaver Moon.
What to do, […]
I’ve got two articles in the issue of Jewelry Crafts magazine currently on the newsstand. The first is a spin on an Art Nouveau classic design, called Princess Hyacinth. Here’s the princess:
She’s a pretty one, isn’t she? She’s the work of Alphonse Mucha, a brilliant printmaker who lived from 1860 to 1939. […]
Keeping my eye on you
I love Rebecca Brown’s beadwork and her sense of humor! I love love love the names that she gives to her pieces! I also love the way she combines beadwork with other fiber arts. Her site is well worth a visit with a cuppa.
Rebecca writes that her pieces were woven off-loom […]
Make Art Monday
All of the pieces that I sent for consideration for the upcoming book, 1000 Jewelry Details, have returned home. I was very happy to see them again, especially Orinoco Flow. It happens to be my current favorite :-)
I don’t know which if any of my pieces will end up in the book, […]
The Art of Bead Embroidery
I received my copy of The Art of Bead Embroidery, co-written by Heidi Kummli and Sherry Serafini, and I just immediately fell right into it. Honestly, I did not learn as much from this book as I have from several other embroidery books, but it was highly inspiring. I was intrigued […]
Here are the rest of the BJP pages that I’ve already finished. This month, I’m working on the moon for last month, November. I know it’s confusing, sorry!
August - The Sturgeon Moon
September - The Harvest Moon
October - The Hunter’s Moon
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May - The Flower Moon
If you didn’t get in on The Bead Journal Project this year, bookmark this site and make sure that you get in on it next year (I am counting on this becoming an on-going event!). Robin Atkins, beader extraordinaire, has modeled this project on the Quilt Journal Project that many are […]
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