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| 4 blue charms |
The most amazing part of the Art Charm Excjhange for me was the way I had an idea. I don’t feel creative. so when I actually get an idea, ONE whole idea, its cause for me to celebrate.
I like the idea of Beads of Courage. I like the idea of telling a story using beads. Prayer beads are an old tradition in the religion I was raised with. Andr recently I met the bead artist Joyce Scott. All her beads had stories attached, stones that had significance, old necklaces made by her mother, its and pieces made by artists and craftswomen around the world.
When I was a little girl I was seriously religious. My experience of beads was the rosary where we said the lovely words in order, hail mary, full of grace, blessed art thou amognst women. Growing up I provided myself with necklaces by doing daisy flower chains. I loved the colors, pristine white, blue for sanctity, sunshine yellow. I learned that the concept of prayer beads existed long before Christianity. In the telling of the rosary one practices a meditation. In the telling of a Beads of Courage a child learns better ways to tell a story .
I decided to make my charms as little tiny necklaces on the warped squares from Kate McKinnons book Contemporary Geometic Beadwork part 1. The blue warped squares fulfilled the concept of soaring as they looked like little kites or bits of sky. I put many colored beads around them, as I went I made up a story for each charm, here were the doctors visits, then yellow for chemotherapy, white for medicines that worked. I tries to add a brown bead to symbolize hair falling out and a black bead was to mean someone dying. So each charm was like a little story in itself. Then I branched out and made necklaces all one color and others with white cloud picots.
Photographing the beads was not easy, I used many new strategies; a new tripod from RobinShowstack at Besd Hoarders destash; a big art pad; the zoom and flash, and I put the puppy in his crate, much to his distress, or it would have been Beads for Busy Dogs. Slow and steady, I photographed the beads and listed them. I also drew some sketches. If I knew how to do it, I would ornament this page. Since I don't, her
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| my art charm |
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| Add upside-down, some sketches I made of the charms |
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| some charms, these all had a bird theme, well except the butterfly. |
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| various samples charms I made |
2014 Art Charm Exchange Participants
Jennifer Cameron: http://www.glassaddictions.com/blog
Alenka Obid: http://pepita-handmade.blogspot.com
Alicia Marinache: http://www.allprettythings.ca
Andrea Glick: http://zenithjade.blogspot.com
Caroline Dewison: http://blueberribeads.blogspot.co.uk
Cassi Paslick: http://badatbeingmom.blogspot.com/
Cate van Alphen: http://fulgorine.wordpress.com
Cheri Reed: http://creativedesignsbycheri.blogspot.com
Chris Eisenberg: http://www.wanderware.blogspot.com
Cory Tompkins: http://www.tealwaterdesigns.blogspot.com
Elizabeth Auld: http://www.beadsforbusygals.com
Genevieve Gabbert: http://www.glassaddictions.com/blog
Jami Shipp: http://celebratinglifewithdamamashipp.blogspot.com
Jenny Davies-Reazor: http://www.jdaviesreazor.com/bl
Jill Bradley: http://www.jillybeads.bloog
Jill Bradley: http://www.jillybeads.blogspot.com
Kim Dworak: http://www.cianciblue.blogspot.com
Lee Koopman: http://stregajewellry.wordpress.com
Lennis Carrier: http://www.windbent.net
Lesley Watt: http://www.thegossipinggoddess.blogspot.com
Mallory Hoffman: http://rosebud101-fortheloveofbeads.blogspot.com
Melissa Trudinger: http://beadrecipes.wordpress.com
Michelle McCarthy:
Monique Urquhart: http://ahalfbakednotion.blogspot.com/
Moriah Betterly: http://mlbetterly.blogspot.com
Nancy Dale: http://nedbeads.blogspot.com
Nancy Smith: http://wirednan.blogspot.ca
Niky Sayers: http://silverniknats.blogspot.co.uk
Perri Jackson: http://ShaktipajDesigns.com/blog/
Renetha Stanziano: http://www.lamplightcrafts.blogspot.com
Shai Williams: http://www.shaihasramblings.com/2014/11/art-charm-exchange-auction.html
Sheila Prosterman: http://catswithbeads.blogspot.com
Susan Delaney: http://susandolphindelaney.wordpress.com
Susan Kennedy: http://www.suebeads.blogspot.com
Terri DelSignore: http://artisticaos.blogspot.com
Toltec Jewels: http://www.jewelschoolfriends.com
Vanessa Gilkes: http://culturezine.com/blog/
11 comments:
I loved your reflections, Sheila, it is always nice to be reminded of our roots, isn't it? Your charms are a beautiful combination of story and art, a perfect retelling of the Beads of Courage philosophy :)
Stupendous charm. Thanks for sharing your process.
Beautiful charms, I specially like the colorful borders, they make the charms much more interesting!
Alenka
It's lovely to know there's a story behind the colours. I was lucky enough to get one of your charms. Thanks :)
Such a sweet charm I love how you thought it out and the stories behind the colours.
Beautiful charms, I loved reading about your design process!
What a touching blog post. Your charm is lovely. I like the beads having a meaning.
Puppies make life interesting for sure! I am lucky in that one of my requirements for our new home was that I had a separate room with a door for my studio. Love the story of your charms. I was lucky enough to get one.
Darling kite charms, Sheila! Thank you for participating. And good luck with the little one.
Delightful beaded kite charms, Beautiful execution!
Your kite symbolism is so apropos for the theme! Nicely done.
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