Kismet

I took a class in enameling. Karin Bremer, an Oneonta region jeweler with mad design and technological skills, announced a one-day enameling workshop. I was eager to attend because although I'd done plenty of enameling through high school and when I taught craft courses at Salem High School, I couldn't make enameling with a torch instead of in a kiln, work. Was I forgetting some important step? Karin was a wonderful teacher and such a generous person, to have offered such a course to all of us. And to avail her studio, tools and supplies to the workshop participants. It was a fun and rewarding day. And Naturally, I came back to my home studio and pulled out the enamels that had been taunting and perplexing me--and I made some successful (if not exactly inspired) enameled pieces. A few of them are in the photos in this post, along with some of my other new work. Find my work on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/ suzyfrisbee and at Good Cheap Foods in Delhi, NY. Contact me at susanf

Water and Charcoal and Hair

I did a little more work on yesterday's handsome fella from the Vogue pictorial. still wrong-side-of-paper-y, waffle-facey, but finished This guy certainly has a wild, curly crop of hair, and I certainly had a bit of fun depicting it. It may not look absolutely realistic, but isn't that what artistic interpretation is all about? You may notice that the blackest spot on the drawing is in his right eye (on the left.) It was a mistake. I kind of like it. A cold, adult beverage was on my windowsill (how did THAT get there!?!) while I was drawing, and apparently, the black charcoal pencil absorbed a bit of condensation. When I went to darken up the outline to his iris, the line came out as a dense, black blob, which I blotted up and then stared at. Hmm. Charcoal and water might be friends. And I might have to go see Anna Karenina. Should I read it first, or not?

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