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Celie Fago, design concepts, jewelry, Keum Boo, metal clay, Metal Clay Classes, Patrick Kusek, Patrik Kusek, PMC Sterling, Tear Away
Here are a few pics of some of the things I made in Celie’s pre-conference class on PMC Sterling. For the most part I used dry to dry construction techniques, in addition I used molds and hand carving for the branches. Keum Boo for the gold. I also used Celies ring making technique, and her fabulous tear away technique for the texture plates.
I learned a LOT of different things in Celie’s class. I’ll post more on them later, so stay tuned.
First and foremost one of the things I learned was that I that I need to narrow my focus a little when it comes to my designs. Big problem for a Gemini like me. But seeing the variety of things that I made with ONLY ONE of her texture plates reminds I can do this. It also reminded of working in a series. Last year I took a class with Micheal David Sturlin which this concept came up. Intellectually somehow I feel that working in a series can be limiting but in his class, and now in Celie’s, I think that it’s probably not limiting at all. It can be freeing. By limiting the choices of textures I can focus on structure, techniques and how it relates to the texture. While I probably would never only use one texture in my designs, the approach is something I will strive to use in the future.