2009 Sardine Queen update

(new work to be posted soon)
I ended the year perfectly....
13 hours of arting....
waltzing into the house at 9pm...covered myself with small dogs....
watched PulpFiction...
and was in bed well before the year ended....
ending it before its official end gives me the upper hand and I finish the year on my terms.
Following my own odd belief system
of prefering to have no residuals of the last year in my system this first day of the new year....
I and Booger roamed about a world of few active humans...
the world was ours until about mid day
when most humans began verticle behaviour...
their combined activities officially begin to get the new year up and running...
I could hear it in the distance.
2009 had begun.

There are new SardineTins being completed...
and I'll do more posting of artings that seem to continue to be fish related....
I think it's more about RedHerrings and their relatives...
but, I'm not going to try to figure that out...
I'll just post when I get to arting from that point of view.

Happy New Year....

Sardine Tins #1 & #2

I guess I've got an attraction to fish:
SardineTin #1 is sold.

and, just completed...SardineTin #2-->

Poundings

A friend made 3 chasing tools for me
with which I made the RedHerrings and other "poundings"
from left over aluminum flashing.
Technically, it's chasing and repousse...
but, what I do, doesn't hold a candle to the skill of the official chasers and repoussers.

A couple days a week, jewelry artist Maya Madden...
has been trying to teach me how to be an extra couple hands for her...
teaching me some things about metal....
fine silver actually...
that's what Maya likes.


I bought a set of small tools from Rene Bluhm on ebay.
Today I started playing with them.

could I do that again?

...and...I couldn't help it...had to see it........

...TheReligionator...which wound up with a much deeper relief than the scanner can deal with....
again, I've no idea what I'm going to be doing with these...
at least I've gotten them out of my system.