It’s that time again – time to meet another fantastic chainmaille artist who has agreed to let us pick their brain for our “Ask an Artist” blog series! Charlene Anderson is an incredibly talented chainmaille jewelry artist (who incidentally uses Blue Buddha rings frequently!) and was Step-by-Step Wire Jewelry magazine’s Featured Artist of the Year… Read more »
Month: March 2011
Chainmailling the world with the help of….Guerrilla Marketing!
On a recent trip to Los Angeles, Rebeca stopped in to a Barnes & Noble bookstore and did a little “experiment”. She moved her book CHAINED from a shelf where just the spine was facing outward to a shelf with the cover facing outward in an act we’re calling “guerrilla marketing”. Mostly, this was all… Read more »
Ask an Artist: Melissa Banks talks about shows, jewelry, and life as a professional jewelry artist.
For this third installment of our “Ask an Artist” series, we had the pleasure of picking the very talented brain of Melissa Banks, chainmaille artist behind Rapt in Maille. Questions came from readers about everything from success and rejection to creativity and being a badass. Well, you asked and Melissa answered. I hope you all… Read more »
Represent! How to take better pictures of your jewelry.
Anyone who has ever tried to photograph their chainmaille jewelry can tell you it’s not easy. Whether you’re trying to take a picture to share with folks on facebook, post on etsy, or submit to a publisher, you want your photos to do your hard work justice and blurry, too dark, or too glare-y photos… Read more »
Rebeca’s first international publication!
We are proud to announce that Rebeca’s Coiled Crystals project is in the most recent issue of the German magazine Perlen Poesie (pg66). As some of you may know, Rebeca fell in love with Germany years ago, returned a few years later to backpack around Europe, eventually wound up living in Germany for a year,… Read more »