E.A.S.T. (East Austin Studio Tour) 2010

I'm participating in the annual East Austin Studio Tour.  Each year, studios in Austin's East side of town open their doors and welcome the city to see "where the magic happens".  

This is my first year doing it and I am very excited as well as nervous and anxious to get everything done.  I'm really excited to be 100% in my space so I can manically create more pieces.

Here's a sketch of an upcoming ring:

My film debut

I made some jewelry pieces for the upcoming horror film, Boneboys.  It's a gorefest about cannibals and I made a cast sterling silver ring of a pelvis as well as a spinal column necklace.

The stones are synthetic rubies.  I love this photo! The ring looks like a little creature.

I cast the two pieces from plastic skeletons that the costume designer, Colin Wilkes, got at a dollar store or somethin' and added waxwork to both pieces to fill in gaps or make them look better.

I hand-carved the ring with a skeletal pattern to emulate bony fingers holding the tiny pelvis.

Here's the casting of just the spinal column:

Here's a link to the still photographer's flickr page.... http://www.flickr.com/photos/18795933@N06/sets/72157625199428104/