touch wood...

top: touch wood driftwood, found on the shore, west coast

hand carved dimple, oxidised copper

bottom: fools gold lime wood, tilia x europaea, felled branch found in kelvingrove park

hand carved, ink, brass ring

wood work...

back to school for the third and final term of first year at gsa

my latest project is called 'touch'
the brief is to create a piece of jewellery that  interacts with or touches the body, this project is shared with the second and third year s+j students and the final piece will be exhibited along with theirs (eek, eek and double squeak!)

i have found myself looking at the practice of touching or knocking on wood to prevent bad luck from happening, so i've been playing about with different woods

drift wood

looking at the palm of the hand and the finger tips

april snow showers...

 

yesterday brought alpine fresh snow along with clear blue skies,

chilly but gorgeous!

last week was very warm and sunny for late march, even got a wee bit of sunburn!

just three days ago

the first bluebell in full bloom

magnolia sargentiana with its huge leaves and petals, it looks like it belongs in a rain forest

surprise snow...

lots of fluttery snowflakes today, last week was hot and sunny with fluttery butterflies!
i do love it though, fresh and chilly and bright and sunny, the highlands at its best!

still can't upload photos... boo

highland spring...

i'm a week into my sunny spring break highland style at the parental home in kintail and things are looking rosey...

unfortunately, blogger is being extremely rubbish and annoying and has foiled every attempt i have made to post pictures over the last few days and likes to scramble my photos, great

birch brooch...

investigating peeling birch bark with brass and copper sheet. drilling holes then rolling to stretch them, roll printing with bark peel and etching to emphasize the curling, wafer like quality of peeling bark.

final brooch, top and bottom left

exploring the texture of  birch bark using acrylic paint and paper

hangin' with ma birches...

there are no words to describe my love for birch trees... 

so i've settled on birch trees to study for the sheet surface/texture project, i'm looking at the tree, bark and catkins but not the leaves because there are none at the moment

birch trees in kelvingrove park, they look like skinny zebra-giraffes

yarn bombing, knitted stripy trunks

a birch forest reminds me of a barcode