Apr 19, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - sculpture
In the previous three posts I covered the planning, background and gold leaf stages of creating this beautiful bedhead. This is the final post in the series and includes the most memorable section of Klimt’s most famous painting .. the sculpting of the kiss...
Mar 31, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - sculpture
In the previous two posts I discussed the planning and gold leaf stages of creating one my bedheads. The Kiss bedhead takes at least 3 weeks full time work spread over a 3 month period as the many layers of color, paint, leaf, varnish and waxes need to cure. The...
Mar 23, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - sculpture
58 hand made glass tiles After the design and planning stage in my previous post, I now get into the studio to pre-make some of the adornments required for this bedhead. During this time I had my own small glass kiln in the studio and for the Kiss bedhead I made 58...
Mar 23, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - sculpture
Design-in-Action Over the years I photographed how I went about creating my unique bedheads. I used to call this section of my web-site ‘Design in Action’ so clients could see how I managed the custom design process for any of the Fantasy Dreams artworks....
Mar 11, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - jewellery
While creating designs for the ArTTable, I was asked one year to be gust artist at the Melbourne Craft Expo along with a beading partner of mine at the time Leeza Silverman. For 3 days we sat beading a vase as part of my series ‘Sharing My Backyard’, there was no...
Mar 5, 2013 | Browse and chat, That Creative blog
I have been typing my fingers off for 3 months now, on average 2-3 blogs per week. Where has it got me to date .. 18 subscribers (half are family and friends), about 5 new viewers per day (that is cool), over 240 unique visitors so far and a whole $1.84 in advertising...
Mar 3, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - jewellery, Work-in-progress
Recently I did a post called ‘Inspired by Wattle’ .. well it was enough to inspire me into making a green and gold bracelet. Whilst I was writing the article I dug into the bead box and pulled out what I had that made me think of wattle .. green and gold...
Feb 23, 2013 | Our Mid-century modern home, That Creative blog
In my last post we looked at how to design your garden lights. In my yard I had come up with the following design and was now armed with a shopping list to take to the light store. I required: 5 garden lights, one pillar light for the driveway, 2 house lights...
Feb 15, 2013 | Our Mid-century modern home, That Creative blog
Being an amateur gardener I had to draw on my creative skills to design not only the landscape, but also the garden and the garden lights. Nil experience, nil knowledge, so armed with google I was ready to give it a go. I knew I didn’t want to repeat the...
Feb 2, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - jewellery
The end result is beautiful! This is my final post in a series of ‘how to make a rainbow bracelet’. I don’t really do rainbow myself, I prefer to select a natural palette, more organic inspired. Rainbows to me are bright, colorful things with...
Jan 27, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - jewellery
In my last post I showed you how I go about selecting beads for my highly ornate bracelets. This is the second post of three, where I will show you how I go about preparing the beads as wire charms to add to my bracelets. Post 1: The design stage. In my...
Jan 26, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - jewellery
I get a lot of compliments about the unique and interesting collection of beads I put together in my wire jewellery bracelets. ‘They are fun to explore’ is the common feedback. The technique in which I prepare my beads is common to all bead...
