Catch-Up...Georgia Deaver Workshop and Mokume Gane Fun

Howdy all - Creativity has been flowing. This past weekend I spent with Georgia Deaver in a 2 day workshop on Design. The approach to the workshop was one like I've never experienced before, but then again I've never taken a design class either. The golden mean which is extremely analytical, but for me it was easy to understand having a background in engineering and made perfect sense to me. As this was Calligraphy based many pieces of calligraphic art was shown and discussed. So much detailed info was packed into the short 2 days it was information overload. Only 2 projects were individual and in fact even the individual projects were looked at by everyone and then discussed as a group. The group projects were fun because as artists the chance to work in groups is few and far between and the feedback that others have is vital. What a great weekend it was. Now I have a few pieces that were in mock up that needed to be transformed into finished pieces which is were the true fun begins!

Now the weekend prior I got into an organic/wired mood and took already create "stones" and turned them into bracelets and pendants. The "stones" are actually created from polymer clay using a technique called Mokume Gane. Just creating those stones is soooo much fun, but to have them in a complete piece is way too cool. In fact I donated a bracelet and pendant to be in a breast cancer charity auction this past weekend.

Creative Escape

It's been far too long since my last post. I could tell you it's been due to my day job, or life at home, or well....you get the picture. Everyone can always find a reason for not doing something they didn't want to do, but when it comes to something they enjoy it's simply the fact that the priority of that "thing" has fallen way, way down on the list of things they have to do. Well, I'm raising the priority of my creative time. Yes, it has taken a back seat and it's sat back there so long it's gotten buried under many other things being piled up on and around it to the degree its been lost. It's been kicking a screaming and only recently have I even heard it. Now, it's front and center again and fighting to stay there. And I need my creative escape as it is the time I can truly free my mind and soul of the day to day dust and grim.

This little blog is going to play a role in my creative rebirth too. We have to have goals to strive too otherwise nothing would ever be achieved. I will be adding an entry here at least once a week. It be a simple quote I found or a long winded entry like I'm working on here, but either way DragonFly Studio13 blog will be alive!

Cheers, and may you never lose your creative escape to the dog eat dog, rat race world. You only have one life; do what you want to do and make it a book that has many pages "dog eared" that others want to read!