Summer colors

To tell the truth, summer is my least favorite season. The central coast of Israel tends to be very humid during the summer. Steam room comes to mind.
But nothing - even summer - will get in my way.
Looking through my studio for ideas, I found a refreshing box: colored gemstones in vivid colors.
While watching my Coursera lectures, I knitted colorful wire necklaces and flowers to use with those gems.

Just finished uploading them to my shop.
Here's my new summer collection, TA DA:

coral and hematite tribal neckace

orange howlite necklace

magenta jade and turquoise howlite earrings

Are they not gorgeous???

Inspired By Nature

I have shared with you my artistic inspiration in the pat, and also how nature itself provides such inspiration.

My new collection too includes items that were inspired by nature. Such is this new necklace:

red and chartreuse wire crochet necklace

The source of inspiration this time was Physalis Alkekengi, also known as "Chinese Lantern", "Japanese Lantern" and many other names:

Physalia Alkenkegi

The necklace - as well as it's matching earrings - represnt all of the advantages of my wire crochet jewelry: they can be colorful but transparent, voluminous but light weight.
And most of all: fun to make :)

Thundering art

As I told you before, I began knitting chains for pendants, which later became a new line of jewelry. Still, knitting and crocheting seemed to be just a craft, not yet art. The inspiration came out of the technique, and was limited, like there's not much else to design.
My creativity came to halt.

I also told you how much I love spring rain. I love the large raindrops and the clear air, but mostly I enjoy thunder storms. We had some of them in the past few days, and since they always "charge" me somehow with fresh energy - they did so this weekend, too.

work in progress

How is this relevent?

So far I used knitting in the same manner, as a continuity of those chains and only a little further designed.

Today I woke up to the sound of loud thunder, the color of dark gray sky and the mist of heavy rain. Normally, my artistic ideas present themself to me using dreams or images - mostly in awakening. Often I forget many of them, and that's why I asked my mate to build me a dream capturing camera :)

Since he failed to fulfill my wish, I took my notepad (which constantly lays within my reach), and began sketching from memory. The designs just kept pouring out of me - wonderful artistic designs!!!

The next stage is to "translate" those designs to technical details, and to knit them - which I already began doing.

It feels like birth, or something quite similar.
I'm so thrilled!!!

work in progress

Getting There

What triggers your creativity?

What makes you leave everything and rush into your studio?

What drives your art making?

Every artistic creation has a story, and behind these stories lays inspiration.

I'm not different from other artists, and would like to share with you my sources of inspiration in a series of posts.

Let's begin.

The first rainy period this year was stormy. I love stormy weather; it charges me with fresh energy and fills me with joy. Go figure…

It wasn't so for my husband, who also likes rain but realized he lost his long loved wind resistant umbrella. It's the kind of umbrella that doesn't bend inside-out by a light breeze or even a fairly strong wind. It looks like this, but was dark green:

Charged with all that energy I was very generous, and suggested to knit him a new umbrella :)

I took the spool I just knitted from and made a dome, which later became this earring: