The journey is complete

I started to create this new piece almost 5 days ago. I knew this new journey will give me a lot of satisfaction since I draw my design.

My first drawing is just an idea of what I want to create. When I am in the process of making the piece and I start to see how it is developing, some changes are made to better fit my idea and what I want to transmit when I create my work.

 My first idea in making my pure silver heart was to make it 

flat and attach it with two rivets.

At the end I decided to make a dimensional silver heart with a flower, I made the flames of the heart with brass and on the back of the heart I hand formed a rose that will have a big place on my back design of the piece.

 I am very happy with how the piece looks. 

It really transmits my passion for what I do.

I always make something on the back of my pieces, I think the back is as important as the front. When I hand sculpted the rose on the back inside of my heart, I knew I will saw out a little window on my copper for the rose to show up.

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Finally my "Reina" came alive!!

I had an idea about making a mask representing the beautiful "Coconut masks" from Mexico.

When I started the design process I did not have the right image about what I wanted to do.

The drawings in the clay came in the moment I saw the mask shape, I draw the face and she

came to life in my head.

I was so happy with the final image of my mask and send her to the kiln, by now I knew I had to use coconut charcoal and fired it at 1700 and hold for three hours.

Sadly for me, all my other pieces sintered but not my mask. I was very careful to take her out

of the charcoal but I lost two flowers in the process. I fixed the flowers in a different way and

decided to put her back again to the kiln.

She came out of the kiln without being sintered again!!!! This time she lost the eyebrows and I was not going to give up on her.

I decided to live her alone for a while and try again on a later time.

Yesterday I was going to do my third copprclay firing of the day when I saw her in my shelf, I knew this was the time for her to go back again in the kiln, if this time did not work I knew it will be over for her.


This time she sintered but she had some scars on the back, it is like all her struggles show up at the end but if you see her on the front, she still has her bright personality and I will wear her with a lot of pride!