I really need to get better at this blogging stuff.  I envy those artists who have blogged, checked their Etsy shop, shipped off their sales and are ready to spend a day in the studio by 9am.  By 9am I'm just finishing off my second cup of coffee and trying to decide if I should clean out the dishwasher before heading to the studio or just ignore it. 

The past couple of months have been very good for me.  I submitted work to the Metal Clay Masters Registry and I was honored to be accepted as a Level 1 Master.  I am now working on my level 2 designation.  For more information on the Masters Registry go to www.mastersregistry.com   I was also chosen as one of Crafthaus Artists of the Week in April.  Pretty cool.

With the coming of the nice weather I have been focusing on sandblasting.  My sandblasted pieces take a great deal of time to build but hopefully I will have a couple finished and photographed soon.  Sandblasting is an extremely messy process and you don't want to inhale the blasting medium.  Because of that I only blast outside avoiding contamination of my entire studio.  I have put together a mobile blasting station that I can easily wheel outside when I need to blast.   Takes me about 5 minutes to set it up outside and another 5 to tear down when I'm done.  Unfortunately it takes about 2 hours for the lines on my face caused from the respirator to go away!

 

Sue