Believe In Yourself!

Thinking about my comment about my necklace focal, and I am a ponderer, (if that is a word). I go through wondering, "What makes art, Art?" I am constantly looking to see if something that I make is right, but there are so many ways to be right. Ascetically, balance, color, dimension, personally, even politically. I think it is good to work hard and challenge myself but I need to find balance. Again I prove to myself that pondering, which for me leads to research, leads to answers.

When I found this in my history researchings I just laughed because I realized that there really is nothing new - just reinvented!

 Brass masks with cowrie shells.

Here are the other pieces that I made to go with the necklace. I really like the bracelet. Again I made a polymer clay bead and the toggle pieces are Vintaj. I finally used a seed bead toggle! I also made another clay focal because I thought that the face wasn't going to work. My friend Beth really liked the heart so I will hold it for another project!

Well after much work and redoing I finally made something. I didn't want to have to buy anything so I had a creative night with Terri and played with polymer clay again. I used my daughter as inspiration because she is so beautiful. the rest I still probably have to work at some more but I'm ok with it. It's funny how I can like and not like a piece of work. I can think that it is stupid and then see someting that is either really unattractive but is in a book! Oh well. If I'm making art I'm happy!

September Challenge

"The White Rose and the Red Rose" 1902
by Margaret Macdonald
Hunterian Art Gallery Mackintosh collections
99.0 cm x 101.5 cm
Gesso, painted, set with glass beads and shell; on hessian on a wooden stretcher

About the Artist

Margaret Macdonald (1864 - 1933)
Born Margaret Macdonald, at Tipton, near Wolverhampton, her father was a colliery manager and engineer. Margaret and her younger sister Frances both attended the Orme Girls' School, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. By 1890, in Glasgow and Margaret and her sister, Frances Macdonald, enrolled as students at the Glasgow School of Art. There she worked in a variety of media, including metalwork, embroidery, and textiles. Her most dynamic works are large gesso panels made for the interiors that she designed with Mackintosh, such as tearooms and private residences.
Together with her husband, her sister, and Herbert MacNair, she was one of the most influential members of the loose collective of the Glasgow School known as "The Four". She exhibited with Mackintosh at the 1900 Vienna Secession, where she was arguably an influence on the Secessionists Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann.

Some people are special just because they are who they are♥

I gave this bracelet, and vintage fur collar, to a spectacular person that has been in my life. Her name is Karen and I wanted to thank her just for being her. I know she loves blue and she was petting the collar so those cues gave me the opportunity to do something for her.