Recent Posts Tagged With art

• Sculpture and sex ed

  Posted on Wednesday February 17th, 2010 at 10:36 am in art funny humor parenting sculpture

  Last night,  Jake called me over to question me about a sculpture he was studying for his art history homework.   He was working at the computer, and Riley was huddled next to him.  While Jake and Matt are very interested in art, Riley is not, and...

• Painting

  Posted on Tuesday February 9th, 2010 at 04:15 pm in art painting artist studio

  Really, I’ve been so sluttish in my blogging,  I don’t know how you can stand it.  I’d be quite disgusted with me if I were you. Things have been a-swirlin’ in my head;  swirling and swirling, around and around, never slowi...

• The Reef Ring

  Posted on Monday January 25th, 2010 at 03:09 pm in art jewelry artist jewellery studio

  Oh my ducklings, I’ve not meant to ignore you.  I’ve just been distracted by shiny things. I’ve been on a serious creativity roll, and so I’ve been going with it, ignoring the more administrative aspects of Vaka-ville in favo...

• Child labor

  Posted on Tuesday January 12th, 2010 at 03:42 pm in art children parenting ring artist

  Matthew has had quite a few orders for his silver ring.  In fact, until two days ago, he had more orders in January than I did, and I’m beginning to wonder at what point encouraging your child’s hobby becomes child labor. Would he just ...

• Skulls

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 10:39 am in art artist philadelphia skulls personal entries

  Today, blogosphere, our special is art  with a crispy crust of anthropology, smothered in pathology sauce. Noah Scalin, artist, designer, creator of the site Skull-A-Day, and author of the book SKULLS, talks with the director of the Mutter Museum in...

• Some badass sculpture: Tara Donovan

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 09:53 am in art sculpture artist tara donovan media and art

  Let’s do this differently.  Today I won’t tell you about Tara Donovan; who she is, what she’s reaching for in her work, what she means within the art world.  Today I will just show you, and I’d love to hear what you think. I...

• Second Glass Finalists

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 05:42 pm in art contest michael jackson personal entries monsterbling

  This was a tough one. Of note: * We think “Arlo sings until his tonsils wiggle” should be submitted as a t-shirt design at www.Threadless.com.  Promise you’ll do that? * Eyeclops (the orange, one-eyed, toothy monster) was disqualif...

• Food monsters?

  Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 05:08 pm in art humor food culinary cuisine

  So Kseverny commented that he could not make a monster because he was drunk.  That’s sad, and I think we all need to offer him a little bit of internet intervention.   But not right this minute, because now we are talking about Monsterbling ...

• What were you thinking!?

  Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 08:41 pm in art drawing gold jewelry artist

  Oh my gosh, did you forget to enter the Monsterbling Contest?  You did, didn’t you?  Because you’re drunk again, right?  That’s what I thought.   OK, you need to stop that and we can talk about that some other time, but in the...

• Monster time!

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 12:45 pm in art drawing gold artist contest

  Monsterbling time!  Yes, yes, I know.  I haven’t posted pics of the pendant, and I will.  Cripes.  Nagging naggers. For those of you riddled with self-doubt, let me go all Art Mommy on you for a moment. Ready?  Close your eyes and picture ...

• Canada, let’s work this out

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 12:16 pm in art drawing Photography jewelry contest

  Canada, Canada, Canada.  I’m shaking my head already, and you haven’t even done anything.  Yet. Yesterday, Shmarla commented that the upcoming Monsterbling Contest might offer you a chance to redeem yourself.  You know what I’m t...

• Fan Clubs

  Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 01:14 pm in art jewelry artist studio US Mint

  I am a charter member in the Jamie Franki Fan Club.  Jamie is an artist of whom you’ve probably never heard, and yet there is a very good chance you have a piece of his recent work.  Turn out your pockets and gather up all your change.  Do ...

• Monsterbling Contest!

  Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 08:04 am in art painting drawing Photography sculpture

  It’s time for the Monsterbling Contest! Yay! The lowdown: Submit an image of a monster between November 5 and November 15, and may the best monster win. Draw it, collage it, paint it, Photoshop it.   Sew it, build it, sculpt it and take a pic...

• Monster update!

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 07:35 am in art metal humor jewelry artist

  Blogosphere, keep your pants on! Some readers have already sent me monster images, including two pictures of mothers-in-law.  Naughty!  For those of you who sent those?   Your secrets will go to the grave with me, my cheeky little ducklings.  B...

• New Ruby pendant

  Posted on Friday October 23rd, 2009 at 11:19 am in art ruby gold jewelry artist

  Look!  Look at the new pretty! A 1.52 ct  SI Ruby, set in a slightly Etruscan-looking handforged setting. I’m not sure “Ruby” should be capitalized, but I’ve decided that’s how we’re going to roll at Vaka Design...

• Monsters, blogosphere, monsters?

  Posted on Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 09:20 pm in art drawing ring jewelry artist

  But people, the monsters.  What are your thoughts on the monsters?  Yea or nay?    Is it too out there, or a good idea? ...

• Monsters and free rings

  Posted on Friday October 16th, 2009 at 08:52 am in art contests drawing humor jewelry

  So, I’ve been thinking about monsters.  After I had a glass of wine the other night I decided that I REALLY need a faux fur rug.  But like a muppet faux fur rug.  As if the local menfolk hunted down a scary yet wildly beautiful large muppet...

• Alyssa Monks: figurative badass

  Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 10:14 am in art painting artists painters figurative

  Let’s talk about Alyssa Monks. It’s always tempting, when an artist renders an object or figure with photographic realism, to pronounce the artist “great” based solely on their superior technical skill. “It looks JUST li...

• New Diamond

  Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 04:44 pm in art jewelry Diamond jewellery stones

  While  I’m not fond of white diamonds, I was intrigued by this one.  It’s peppered with the carbon that, when heavily present, makes a diamond black.   But this has just a bit of it….and I like it!   If we called this a white ...

• Amber Seaglass Ring

  Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 04:02 pm in art humor gold ring jewelry

  Another new piece, and I’m reworking the Teletubbytourmaline pendant. And also!  Also!  My mom has started giving me Christmas presents because it is October, after all.  I asked for a round bezel punch set for Christmas, and so I’ve ...

• Teletubbies and one-track minds

  Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 11:54 am in art humor gold jewelry marriage

  Over the hills and far away,  Katie’s pendant comes to play! Carla and Jenny agreed with me without even knowing they were doing so.  Which is my favorite kind of agreeing with me.  It allows me to sit back and pretend I thought of things fi...

• Tourmaline and Seaglass-Updated

  Posted on Friday October 9th, 2009 at 12:47 pm in art gold jewelry artist jewellery

  I went into my studio to work on the square ruby, and by mistake I made other things, instead.  This happens a lot.  I find if I just stay in my studio long enough, most of my ideas come to fruition…..at some point. Of the pieces I made this...

• Ruby

  Posted on Wednesday September 30th, 2009 at 10:54 am in art ruby jewelry studio stones

  Ring, or pendant?  Pendant, or ring? 2.18ct, VS-SI ...

• Arshile Gorky

  Posted on Monday September 21st, 2009 at 02:11 pm in art artist painters armenian abstract expressionist

  Within the art world there are artist’s artists, those who are looked upon by their peers as brilliant, talented and groundbreaking.  These artist’s artists might not ever become popular darlings.  They aren’t the Pollocks and th...

• Mojo concerns

  Posted on Monday September 14th, 2009 at 10:41 am in art studio mojo artistic process personal entries

  Grrr!  Argh!   RRRRRRRRGH!  It’ll never work.  Never, never, never, never, never.   IT. WON’T. WORK. Blogosphere, it’s not  *#!*&%$  working. And I have to get it to work. And get it to work beautifully.  How many tim...

• Alright, so.

  Posted on Tuesday September 1st, 2009 at 09:16 am in art humor jewelry artist Romance

  I’ve been working on a number of challenging custom orders this past week, my head busily trying to wrap itself around how to achieve the effects I want to achieve.  And because I’m so pig-headed (that’s the term the boys feel most...

• Apple Green Turquoise Ring

  Posted on Friday August 14th, 2009 at 01:04 pm in art ring jewelry artist jewellery

  When I first started Vaka Design, I hoped that the business could be an umbrella for all of my talented friends and family, that I might simply be one of many artists who ran Vaka.  It didn’t work out that way and that’s been fine, altho...

• Coffee!

  Posted on Wednesday August 5th, 2009 at 09:44 am in art jewelry artist Diamond studio

  Alright!  There’s been coffee, lotsa lotsa coffee, and there’s been advertising set up to run tomorrow, lotsa lotsa advertising.  And I’d really like to have a few new pieces listed for tomorrow when the advertising runs. So.  To...

• House rings

  Posted on Wednesday July 29th, 2009 at 11:02 am in art jewelry artist Rings studio

  I feel I owe you.  Yesterday you were such patient little ducks as I waxed poetic about…..sweat, and I’m sure sweating isn’t as interesting to all as it is to me.  I’m easily fascinated.  I’m sluttish in my ease of fa...

• Satin Diamond Solitaire

  Posted on Monday July 27th, 2009 at 04:50 pm in art gold jewelry artist Diamond

  Lauren was a bad, naughty baby and lost her engagement ring.  Baaaad Lauren! This is Lauren’s new engagement ring, which she would be wise to glue to her pretty little hand.   Lauren asked if I could make the Simple Diamond Ring, but with a s...