Art

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It hit 90F in Phoenix this week. I had a box of artwork in the back of my car that I had to offload, or the contents might suffer in the heat. I drove home from work with that box almost a comfortable presence sitting unseen at my back: until I took it inside the…

Read More Old friends, new roads
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Adrift in the typhoon’s eye,

Stalled on the cliff’s edge,

I craft lists of aides I cannot deploy

Until the wind swells

Strong enough

To lift my wings again.

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Vamp and Tramp Booksellers, my art representatives in Alabama, have just uploaded some more pieces of my book art sculpture onto their website. None are quite new, but they are cool pieces in a variety of materials from paper collage to embroidered and beaded fabric. Link here.

Read More New book art for sale
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Shameless promo ahead. I know a small jewelry findings supply company that has impressed me with its quality and service. I wasn’t aware they made this YouTube ad for a sale yesterday, and I hope they’ll continue the sale for a day or two. At any rate, Plazko.com is a good little company, and their…

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So in (slow) preparation for loading some art on my dormant Handmade at Amazon site, I’ve been doing some research on what’s already there. Some gorgeous, inspirational stuff, worthy of scrutiny. And some…that is not so much. Apparently, in the rush to sign people up, and with possibly not enough experience in the jewelry/handcraft industry,…

Read More Handmade or Buy/Sell?
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I’d post it here, but WordPress and I have a media upload issue that is not getting fixed until this weekend. So here is a link to the NineStar Press page for Maestro, where you can see the pretty pretty cover in large size. I’ll wait with the final blurb until they get their copy…

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One month from now, on 02/02/2016, my little M/M contemporary romance novella Maestro will be available from NineStar Press. I’ve seen the cover. It’s gorgeous. In a week or so I’ll start up some cool promotion stuff, including one of my handmade beadwoven necklaces in NineStar’s rainbow color theme. My fantasy novel Singer in Rhunshan…

Read More Hello 2016
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Yes, the blog was down for nearly a month. An update gone awry and a new more-than-fulltime job can do that. Over the next few months I’ll probably be redoing and streamlining this blog. What happened in 2015? I got to help a dear friend come back from a bad bicycling accident, and stand witness…

Read More 2015 in review
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…I did not plan for these shoes to go so well with these socks: Remainder Halloween socks, 2008, Tuesday morning, $2.00. Sketchers’ Shape-Ups, 2015, Goodwill, $6.00. Black crepe linen pants, 2010, Saver’s, $4.99. Black T-shirt with multicolored (orange, red, green, purple, and black Mandala embroidery), Goodwill, 2005, $4.00, similar to this Cafepress shirt but More…

Read More Happy Halloween, everybody
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The next art-related thing I think I want to learn is henna application. Because of this. And this. And this. Because henna is an earning skill I can take with me anywhere, and I suspect I have some of the foundations already in my fiddly OCD drawing and painting.  

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The accuracy of a writer’s or artist’s self-assessment on how new, original, and groundbreaking their work really is…is likely proportional to their skill and experiences in that field.

The new artist who thinks they’re invented a metalworking technique known for hundreds of years. The erotica author who wants to invent a ‘new’ form of erotic writing that is actually the oldest and most standard form. Anyone who excuses obvious flaws as a necessary part of process.

A form of the Dunning-Kruger Effect, folks.

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  The over-the-top red necklace is (mostly) done, even though I might play around with the clasp a bit more. It and I came to a compromise on its name: Dragonfire Cameo. I talk about the genesis of this piece here. It’s for sale here on my SaatchiArt page. In keeping with my life’s apparent current…

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Just a teaser shot of a beadwork project I’ve basically been rebuilding ever since I first made it in 2012. I’ll do a larger post when this one is actually done (it’s missing clasp details and the rest of the red dangles, so far.) And here’s the finished piece.

Read More Dragonfire necklace, redux