This is me with one of my creations. I have been making jewelry since around 1973. I started creating pottery around 1980.
I was an engineer but always wanted to create jewelry so in 1985 I retired from my engineer career and did jewelry full time.
The greatest career decision I ever made.
3 comments:
I saw your post on Orchid and wanted to take a look--No wonder your work is so wonderful! What a great background...a mind for the technical and an ability to create clean, well constructed designs, an understanding of dimension and vessels, and versatility with scale. A bit of jealousy here--I loved handbuilt ceramics but was allergic to clay, and my technical skills are non-existent...labored at best--my secret dream is to make large scale kinetic metalwork but for the life of me I have no idea where I would learn the mechanics of such a discipline!
Forgive a stupid question: is all your work carved from wax and then cast? Do you use precious metal clay at all? It's so different from what I've experimented with that I'm not sure.
Thanks for your comments. Makes it all worth while when people comment favorably.
All of my silver pottery is carved first out of wax. I can turn wax 3.5 inch diameter and about 4 inches tall mounted in the hand piece of my Foredom. Most of the jewelry I create is done in wax then cast.
I have a paper describing how I turn wax. Its free of charge to you if you send me your snail mail address.
Thanks again
Lee
Hi Dad/Grandpa!
Welcome to the blogoshpere! What fun! We'll enjoy visiting you here!
We feel pretty special to be your kids and grandkids:)
We love you!
The Bowes Ranchers!
P.S. Hope Melvin Zwick doesn't get word of this:)
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