Necklace given to me made with beads from Mexico With all the current interest in tribal beads and getting back to a simpler more primitive bead style, I have been taking out some of my books on the history…
I guess it is a bit too early in the month to expect any entries. I just checked and I couldn’t find any yet for the monthly challenge in either beads nor jewelry, so I thought I would share…
Hello Art Beading Friends. Spring has finally reached us here in the Northeastern part of the US and I’m incredibly grateful for that! In fact it has been more like summer the last few days but as I write…
Hello all! It’s the start of another week, and even though it’s only 4 days since your last Amuse the Muse post, I’m here with another one – lots of delicious art beady eye candy for you today, continuing…
When I ran across this painting picking artwork for the year, I fell in love with all the wonderful color combinations and play of colors found in each segment in the painting. So I decided to break down a…
So it’s a few weeks before Bead & Button and I have been doing lots of sketching, inspiration gathering, looking over my current line of beads and working out a plan for what I’d like to make for the…
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So, because of the way the dates fall, sometimes I miss out my first Amuse the Muse post due to housekeeping – new challenge, challenge winners, new sponsors etc. All the stuff that needs to be posted right at…
This month’s challenge painting is “Untitled” by Augustin Lesage. “Lesage’s patterns are unmistakable. After noting the symmetry of the first large canvas, he began organizing his compositions along a central axis, building complex geometric structures in horizontal layers from…
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