I made a mushroom charm

weeeeee

Remember my chain headdress? This is how the finished product looks. It's for my Persephone costume for an intense Gods and Goddesses party.

The chiton will be a challenge.

Totally can tell I'm influenced by Art Nouveau and the 20s/30s/40s

So we have finished the lighting project, Ponoko is coming to a close, our Welding Project (AKA The Bane Of My Existence) is coming to a close, and I'm close to starting the band ring project - buying the silver (finally) this afternoon.

Sadly, we're not doing the tea infuser. Happily, we're learning how to make chains.

If this were a personal journal, I'd go into how I've been a pile of crazy this semester and what my psuedo-diagnosis would be for the causation of the crazy, but professors read this and the only way I feel comfortable revealing my crazy is when I'm drawing a comic. As such, I'm not going to write that out.

I do, however, wish I had my sawing sample and my lighting project back. I want to take pictures and post them on my deviantart. My new one (my college one) is all sad and empty.

my mostly-highschool deviantart is melody-la.devianart.com currently I am bellmell.deviantart.com

It's very sparse. I've not loaded a lot of work onto it yet.

What? Midterm already?

I'm already in a panic. It's completely normal and my anxious certainty that I have completely fucked up the first half of the semester and now I need to put my ass in over drive is probably the reason WHY I manage not to be a chronic C student.

Even with that admission, I feel the heartburn bubbling up in my chest from the fretting that I've royally screwed myself already this semester and I'm wondering if I can push my grades in my classes to B's (or A's, if I can manage) before it's too late and I lose my scholarship.

I'm already scraping a C in my Art History course.

I haven't even finished ONE riveting sample - I was so certain they didn't matter, and with the knowledge the only time I'd be able to pierce my damn light projects was in class, which is also the only time I'd be able to work on those samples, what with the drilling and wire sizes I didn't have and all, that I set them aside.

AND NOW THEY'RE DUE.

AUGH WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO.

Look at this!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/heronadornment?page=1

she's got interesting pieces. I think they're cast silver? They're worth a gander.

I really wish I took pictures of my pieces.

I wanted to put it out on the interwebs my artistic talent with the nonsensical swirls and evil alien venus flytraps I did for my candle "shadowmaker" (doesn't hold ANYTHING. wonder if I could fix that?) and my cutting sample. Err. Sawing and piercing sample.

My punching pieces - called such because making them made my want to punch them in their anthropomorphized faces.


I had fun making the rough drafts. I enjoyed taking heat to both the copper pieces and turning them colors other than orange and red. The parts in between made my rather murderous.

I should take more time sawing. I shouldn't try and force my saw into places it doesn't fit.

I should sand-blast the damn things to make finishing half a billion times easier. (Or is that cheating, oh glorious leader?)

CAN you sandblast a piece and the finish be something attractive? I know sandblasting glass makes it vaguely opaque and like seaglass. What does it do to metal?

That's a question worth asking.

I WONDER WHAT ETCHING CREAM DOES TO METAL!?!?!

I'm all experimental now.

Hi there stalkers!

No, I'm not talking to you Janet. I am probably talking to Laura. Hi Laura! Or Lauren...?

Bah, I suck at names.

But yes, I'm sure stalker-girl is aware of my mostly defunct Genius is as Genius does blog, and I actually have upwards to around 5 or 6 other blogs I use in rotation on multitudinous different sites. Live journal, wordpress, xanga, you name it. Of course, the xanga ones I haven't touched in close to 6 years, my live journal accounts are so full of awkward teen angst it's embarrassing to sign into anymore, and my blogger blogs...I forget about those. I have a twitter. I tweet from my phone, and my mini thoughts that would normally grow up to be big brave pages upon pages long posts get snipped off and preserved in their undeveloped forms like little thought-fetuses in jars.

How's THAT for imagery?

My handle on twitter, for those who deem it worthy of their attention, is KittyExclaims. Be warned, my favorite words are among the four-letter variety.

I have no real inspiration or photos of sketches to post. I've decided early on I wanted to adapt an illustration I did into jewelry, which I figured would work as the part I wanted to keep was done in a rather thick, linear, open-work fashion. Here is where you can find it. The black lines of JUST THE ROSE will be done. Things will be more closed up. I want to do it in a translucent blue plastic.

When I tried to work on it in illustrator I got a buggy computer and I wanted to stab the damn mac in its non-existent eyes. If it had a readily apparent webcam, I'd of crushed it with my crazy she-hulk super strength. I will have to work on it some more after break - I only have photoshop at home. Photoshop SEVEN at that. (gasp!)

I have so much homework to do before March 22nd.

Sooo much drawing. Soooo much planning.

I don't even get a proper break this summer, as I've decided to put myself through SUMMER COURSES. Because my last science course is messing up my idyllic schedule and it was recommended I take art 217 before it was too late.

THE THINGS I DO FOR MY CRAFT.

Speaking of which, someone poke me and tell me to draw a comic book. Even if it's like 6 pages long and about sandwiches, I'm so out of practice it's shameful.

I'm counting on you, stalker girl!