SuKyo Jang’s Day an Night collection contrasts materials to represent the light of the desert. “Day and night in the desert have different faces. The brilliant, clear sunshine of day is expressed in silver while the endless sand hills are represented by macassa ebony. The cool, dark velvet of night and shining stars are expressed by ebony wood and freshwater pearls.”
Day & Night
August 16, 2012 by laurie
Ornamental Elements 
This sooo reminds me of the jewelry we wore in the 1980’s.
Hi Laurie,
I so enjoy your posts. Always something interesting, and some great image to look at! And didn’t I just see you in print again too? Busy busy!
I’m teaching a class at Community College of Vermont this semester called Intro to Jewelry. This is the fourth time I have taught it. Very basic stuff, mainly because we don’t have any special equipment or tools. So no hot work of any kind. My approach is to teach them how to use some simple materials and make their own components, so we work with fabric, paper, wire, wood, found objects, and of course I spend three weeks with polymer clay. The first class was this past Wednesday, and I gave them your Ornamental Elements site and asked them to start looking at it. Hopefully you will have another 12 subscribers soon. I also asked them to just browse around on the web, look at various jewelry sites, and then bring one or two sites each week that we will put up on the board, so others can take a look too.
Back in June I was poking around in some art materials store and came across some metal inks (Ranger/Vintaj) that looked similar to alcohol inks, but were meant to be used on metal. I had to buy a couple of packages and try them out. They are fun, easy to use (I just paint with my fingers) and the colors blend well. Have to be heat set. I have made several sets of legs for dolls with painted spoons, to which I’ve added collage and then yarn, wire, buttons or beads around the “ankle.” Yet another fun material that you might like to try.
I hope you are well. I’m fine, busy with craft showsand the two classes I’m teaching this semester. At the moment I am one of the Featured Artists at a gallery in southern Vermont. I made some larger-than-usual mixed media pieces for that exhibit. Two sold during the opening. Pretty cool, huh?
Looking forward to seeing you next May! love, meta
Meta,
I am not nearly as busy as your are. Thanks the info on the Ranger products for metal…they sound fabulous. I have experimented with the acrylic ‘enamels’ on the etched metals…interesting. But I’m sure the Ranger color range would be more interesting.
The class sounds fabulous…your students are very lucky to have the opportunity to work with you. I’ve been following you on the show circuit…makes me tired just thinking of the schedule. Congrats on the sales at the gallery. I am still working full time, so I don’t have much studio time. Hoping retirement will come soon so I can work on items for several galleries that are ‘nagging’ me for more pieces. (That is a nice problem…I have a feeling when I have the time…they won’t be ready for the work) I’m getting ready to go to the ‘wall’ with the etched metal. It seems to be the next step in the evolution. I’m starting small 4″ x 4″ but will eventually move up to 8″squares or even 12″ squares. One of my friends is planning on incorporating some of the over etched pieces in her two dimensional work.
Love following you on Facebook but I’ll have to catch up on your schedule in a few months. I’m taking a respite from reading posts until after the election. HATE all of the rancor and misinformation…on all sides!!!
laurie