I haven't done a charm swap in ages, so I thought this would be fun. The heart is made of clay and is smaller than those candy conversation hearts. Probably the smallest thing I have ever made in clay. They were fired and given a stone finish, all a little different. The other charm is a glass car fuse that I took apart and put in a bit of vintage old German bible text. I then gave it a gunmetal finish so that it wasn't so new and shiny looking. I actually had more fun making up the little cards to mount them on than the charms themselves! That was a nice brief break, but now back to "The Exquisite Corpse Project" and designing new Vessel collages. I have so many new designs in the works... can't wait to share them. 
Monday, March 17, 2008
A few Charms
I haven't done a charm swap in ages, so I thought this would be fun. The heart is made of clay and is smaller than those candy conversation hearts. Probably the smallest thing I have ever made in clay. They were fired and given a stone finish, all a little different. The other charm is a glass car fuse that I took apart and put in a bit of vintage old German bible text. I then gave it a gunmetal finish so that it wasn't so new and shiny looking. I actually had more fun making up the little cards to mount them on than the charms themselves! That was a nice brief break, but now back to "The Exquisite Corpse Project" and designing new Vessel collages. I have so many new designs in the works... can't wait to share them. 
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4 comments:
wow- these are really interesting!! I Like them a lot and you did a great job on the cards too!
Hi Ingrid,
I am so glad you commented on my blog, because it brought me to yours which is STUNNING! I love that you noticed that my face linocuts are 'nearly' mirror images of each other. Very perceptive - they are portraits of my best friend and me - she is black and I am white, her hair is curly and mine is straight, she used bright wild colours and mine are more restrained. We are very similar, but we celebrate our differences and the faces I made are about that. That's also why we face each other in the picture.
Look forward to catching up on your website.
Ingrid...these are stunning. The heart is gorgeous and those cards are gorgeous also.
I can see you made these with great love! It all looks so great!
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