I’ve been playing with some ideas in the studio lately to come up with new wearable designs and I just finished this prototype today! What do you think?
I’ve been playing with some ideas in the studio lately to come up with new wearable designs and I just finished this prototype today! What do you think?
If you have attended or exhibited at a professional craft show you may have seen a dapper gentleman with a harmonica in hand, and several in cases around his neck, waltzing around the show floor. It took me two years of seeing him at nearly every show I was participating in until I agreed to construct a beaded vessel version of a case to add to his extensive hand-made collection. Artists from all over the world refer to him fondly as “Hoff the Harmonica Case Man”. And his one-of-a-kind harmonica case collection is no joke–he has already had exhibitions of the set and will be having a book published in the future. Be on the lookout the next time you’re at a show because you may even be lucky enough to hear him play a little tune:
Here are some informal studio shots of my harmonica case! I’m pretty proud of this creation and I am sort of wondering why I put off making it for so long…
Experimenting with new ideas. Where it will lead? Nobody knows!
The time has come…to edit new portfolio images. One of the less exciting aspects of being an artist I’m afraid. Because I have the equipment and know-how to photograph my own work I do. Frugal–party of one! And with expenses mounting around every corner it certainly makes sense to save a couple hundred dollars where possible. The negative to wanting to do everything yourself is it drains your time spent creating new work. As promised here is a far more professional shot of the completed piece I have been documenting over the past couple of weeks.
I’m up for making another…who’s buying this one?
Looks a little bit like a rainbow threw up on my studio floor right now.
I’m really going balls to the wall making these little spheres. My hands hate me just a little bit, but I have some big ideas floating around in my head that have no where to go until I have amassed a large enough collection with which to experiment. For those of you that happen to be social media fiends you also find all these images by following me on Instagram.