Die-pressed shapes

I just returned from Jim Cohen's studio where I got to press these exciting shapes from a masonite die. I can them stick them in the pitch bowl for further shaping, or enamel them.

New camera fun...

Better pictures, hopefully. Working with the new camera sure makes things easier! I'm having much less trouble with glare on the enamels and the zoom capacity is amazing. These pictures have not even been cropped or modified in any way!

Slowly working on enameling 3D objects. Here are a few copper beads in process; the first pic shows the beads with base coats of enamel and silver foil, the next shows cloisonne circles attached to the beads with lily root glue. The glue is amazingly easy to use- the wires stick almost immediately and you can manipulate the form without the wires falling off or even moving.

Chinese Underground house

Images of my new house in the old chinese medicine compound. You can see part of my garden with zucchini and tomato plants and a rainbow in the background.