Stamford Artisans Guild 2010 Show Dates Confirmed
Good news for all Crafters and Artisans in the Stamford Lincolnshire area, the Stamford Artisans Guild has announced their confirmed craft fair show dates for 2010. The shows detailed below will be held in the Stamford Arts Centre right in the heart of Stamford. You will find all manner of crafts on display varying from […]
Creating a Wire Tree Sculpture
A few people have asked me how I make these wire tree sculptures so I thought I should write a brief how to here on the blog, however, I must say right from the start I am not going to reveal all of the techniques I have from learnt Sal Villano’s “How To” book, to […]
Pure Copper Wire Bonsai Tree Sculpture
The wire sculpture took approximately 10 hours to complete from star to finish, perhaps the most difficult part is hammering the end of the wire twigs flat to form the leaves, because space can because quite tight with so many leaves all being is a very confined space.
More Wire Sculpture Gem Trees
We have now finished the second and third of our wire sculpted gem trees, they have both been adorned with rose quartz chips on the branches.
First Wire Tree Sculpture Finished
Well we have finished the first of the wire tree sculptures and we are pleased with the result
Wire Sculpted Trees – Progress
Well the the three wire sculpted trees are now in various stages of production, trees 1 and 2 are now firmly secured to their bases and the sand layers are fully dry on the base. Both of these trees have had their sand bases dyed with indian ink to bring out the texture of the […]
Wire Wrapped Tree Sculpture
I was bitten, I just had to learn more about how he makes these wonderful wire wrapped tree sculptures, and fortunately
So How Did Our Gem Stone Crosses Turn Out
In a previous post I described how we cut the crosses out of green Aventurine, since then we cut some more out Orange Aventurine, Rose Quartz, Sodalite and Lapis Lazuli, just to get the feel for using different materials for making crosses.
Amethyst Gem Stone Tree – First Attempt
So I decided to have a go at making a gem tree out of some Amethyst tumble stones