Wow! Lots of visitors coming in from Polymer Clay Daily after a kind mention of my electroforming experiments by Cynthia Tinapple. So I tho...

I've been quite remiss with listing on Etsy. Today I'm starting a campaign to clear out some of the treasures that are piled high ar...

For several years now, I've been saying I wanted to use the new on-line technologies to produce a book of my work. I remember the old da...

I'm continuing with my experiments on electroforming copper onto silver clay. Today I finished a pair of hoop earrings, complete with th...

Working in multiple media is a bit schizophrenic at times. As each week unfolds, I try to make the rounds from sketching and painting to gla...

Although I like to pride myself on being a quick study, learning things the hard way has its merits. Things I've learned the hard way ov...

Since I've started keeping a log book for my artistic activities every day, I find I get more done. I hate to look at the day's acco...

My thoughts on gathering yesterday reminded me of the scorpion from Italy that traveled home with me. No, not alive. After terrifying poor R...

Perspectives is a juried exhibit presented by ISGB as part of the Glass Art Society Conference. The collection is on display from June 5 to ...

Two more birds fresh from the electroforming bath. I love this little hummingbird sitting patiently on her wee nest. At 2" long, this b...

Electroforming on the swallowtail is now finished. I rather like how the butterfly wraps around the bead, and the caterpillar wraps around t...

One bead through the electroforming process: More to go today, but first must take the teen hiking/swimming for the last biology lab meeting...

I'm pretty excited to announce that my bead, Fly , will be included in the International Society of Glassbeadmakers exhibit, Perspective...

Whoohoo! My pieces are up on the PISMO gallery site!! Look for me at Beads -- Jewelry -- Vickie Hallmark or at Beads -- Individual -- Vick...

A few weeks ago, the Austin metal clay group that I founded made a fun field trip to San Antonio to visit Sherry and John Fotopoulos of PMC1...

Another of the pieces sent to PISMO, a double layer fish and sealife bead with dichroic glass and electroforming, strung with copper and sil...

I LOVE fuchsias! When I lived in California in the Bay Area, I always had them. I adore the full, frilly skirts in Easter Egg pastels or wil...

Thank goodness that I use a water-based copper paint for my electroforming and not the solvent-based stuff. This stuff is pricey, but worth ...

The fish in this bead is sandwiched between the background blue rainbow dichroic and the front layer of sea grass, ferns and snail. There...

To balance the intensive work I've been doing, I decided to electroform some plain beads, using the new carved technique I've develo...