France’s Irene Hoiles keeps a low profile online. The snippets and clues she leaves on Facebook and Pinterest point to someone who knows how to persist until she finds a solution.
About the earrings at the left Irene says, “When you’re not Julie Picarello and your mokume gane doesn’t go quite as you planned…dot it.”
Consider how those dots salvage the pattern and take it in a new direction. Sort of aboriginal.
Fine extruded strings wind around to make dramatic caps for Irene’s mokume gane beads at right. They needed another element for drama.
What a good way to start the week. Let’s channel Irene’s no-fail approach to her polymer designs. What’s on your work surface that needs a little TLC to make it sing?
Sylvia Valentine ,
I believe you call a Yorkshirewoman ‘French’ at your peril . . .
I don’t know how she does it, but with her, each additional layer of complexity actually clarifies the design. The dots map the randomness of the MG, and the strings put a frame around what you see, focusing attention.
And as someone on the Internet once said, falling down isn’t failing. Not getting up is.
Elizabeth ,
I would happily not call either of these fails, before or after their fixes. What lovely, playful designs for a Monday.
Ginger Davis Allman ,
These examples perfectly showcase the extra step needed to take a familiar technique and turn it into a finished design. It makes it all come together in a perfect, finished design.
Lorrene Baum-Davis ,
Great post today Cynthia. Thanks.
Debbie Goodrow ,
…Making it her own… beautifully.