Gifts for Bar and Bat Mitzvah!

 

This first set was created for a wonderful student who picked out tallit with a number of geometric patterns. His request was for me to create a geometric shape that fit in with one of the designs on his tallit but toss in a little bling.  This is the one he selected. Clips and a gold chain were added after the photograph was taken.         

 

Another of my students commissioned a tallit from a local silk painter (Diane Fredgant!) His vision was a rainforest. For clips he was hoping for a parrot. The parrot was a failure on my end! It was just too heavy because of all the colors. I offered a frog, did some research and fell in love with the re-bug-eyed frog and simulated it for his clips. 

My final Bat Mitzvah student of the summer ordered a lovely tallit with blue pomegranates and song birds. She asked for song birds....she selected the white set.

It's time to take a break now from tallit clips and get serious about some other art.

Next week I will begin talking about my latest project which will be revealed September 13th.

As always....stay tuned!

How Embarrassing!

 I can't believe that MONTHS have gone by without a single post! 

OY!

What have I been doing all this time?

What haven't I been doing all this time?

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I am happy to announce that I have been busy. Really busy!

I've been teaching Bar and Bat Mitzvah students over Zoom.  I've been sorting through photographs (true confession: I haven't finished!), I've been playing guitar with my husband who plays bass, I've been leading services for a local assisted living facility, and I've been spending a lot of time at various Zoom meetings. The up side of Zooming is that you can't beat the commute!

I didn't follow through on cleaning out my studio, and other than making a few new tallit clips as gifts for my students....I haven't made much art. 

I have been thinking a lot about COVID, a lot about upcoming elections, a lot about black lives matter, and a lot about future glass projects.

Last month I worked with wonderful ORA artist Wendy Russell, who just moved to South Carolina (silently weeping here!) to present a Zoom workshop to other ORA artists about goal setting, logo design/branding, and taking action. 

As a result, I was able to be my own student. In the few weeks since that workshop I have gotten an "art buddy", I have clarified my own short term goals, and I am working on a project that that has captured my heart. Will it work? Maybe! But my enthusiasm has been renewed. I'll post specifics when I can. In the meantime, I will certainly be more mindful about tending to this blog.

Please stay tuned!