I'd rather be in the studio !

I have been enjoying making my art since 2006, but there was something missing in my development as an artist. Most of my artists friends talked about this, and I finally got the courage to take a workshop about "The business of Art." 

Learning how to market myself and my art has been a confusing and scary journey, but I learned to enjoy doing it as much as I love making my art.

I am always looking to find more information about marketing and self-
promotion. I am so happy to share with you this wonderful book, I'd Rather Be in the Studio!" by Alyson B. Stanfield. Alyson is a great communicator and coach in self-promotion, her book is filled with great tips and guidance.

If you are growing as an artist and your work is being accepted better and better, this is a great book you must have to learn how to self-promote your work.

These are some of her ideas in the book that I really like:

"No one is going to magically appear in your studio, wave a shimmering wand, and give you the success you want in your art career. You have to get out of the studio and make it happen." ~Alyson Stanfield

"In order to have a successful career, you should be able to define yourself and your art in a sea of artist. To do this, you must first find your style." 

~ Alyson Stanfield

Keep playing-Keep creating !!!

Love,

Lorena Angulo

Online Classes Coming Soon !

I was invited to be part of the wonderful group of instructors at CraftEdu. CraftEdu is an online art and fine craft university, and is going to give me the opportunity to reach students in places that I may not be able to go. 
Teaching in CraftEdu is an amazing opportunity to share my passion for what I do.
I already have an online classroom, Lorena Angulo's Classroom,where I will be sharing information about by classes and my work. The students can go in there and ask me questions and post their creations from my classes. I want my classroom to be a fun place where we all can share our love for art and craft.

At this moment I am working in my first class which will be recorded in English and Spanish. I never though editing and recording my voice will be so fun, it is a lot of work but I am enjoying it.

This is my Gallery of Work at CraftEdu.

I am embracing this new adventure with happiness and I am sure it is going to be a great journey !
Are you doing something new this year? I will love to know what are you doing !


Love,
Lorena

Love Birds

My LOVE BIRDS are home !

LOVE BIRDS ring

© 2011 Lorena Angulo

1.5 inches by 1.20 inches

Hand sculpted and carved Bronze Clay

My little birds have a home !

I sculpted two tiny birds with FastFire Bronzclay, one of them was my "Bird a Week" number 3.
After seeing them so fragile I decided they will make a great ring.

©2011 Lorena Angulo

I will post the picture when the ring is fired !!

Have a Great Day !!!

Love,

Lorena

Bird a Week # 3

©2011 Lorena Angulo

For this week I hand sculpted a tiny bird with FastFire Bronzclay.

This little bird was lonely so I decided to make a smaller one. 

©2011 Lorena Angulo

You will see these little birds in their home in a future post.

Love,

Lorena

Ring a Week (RAW) # 3

For my third ring for RAW (Ring a Week), I decided to create a mini altar for the Virgin of Guadalupe. I knew I will be getting in some trouble during the process but I wanted to do it.


My first idea was to make a hollow form and build the altar on top of the ring. My metal clay of option was FastFire Bronzclay and I did have some challenges during the making of the ring.


I managed to form the hollow structure of the ring, after having some difficulties in the process !!!!


Sculpting the mini Virgin was another challenge but I was surprised to see that it was not that difficult after all ! ;D

This is my ring before being fired in my kiln!

MINI ALTAR ring

© 2011 Lorena Angulo

2.17 inches by 1 inch

Hand sculpted and carved FastFire Bronze Clay

After firing the ring !

MINI ALTAR ring

© 2011 Lorena Angulo

2.17 inches by 1 inch

Hand sculpted and carved FastFire Bronze Clay

©2011 Lorena Angulo

©2011 Lorena Angulo

MINI ALTAR ring

© 2011 Lorena Angulo

2.17 inches by 1 inch

Hand sculpted and carved FastFire Bronze Clay

©2011 Lorena Angulo

Close-up of the Virgins (one is in each side of the ring.)

Bird a Week # 2

©2011 Lorena Angulo

For my second bird of the 52 I will be making during this year, 

I decided to draw one.

Even though drawing is not something I am very good at !! ;D

I have always admire people who can draw and I think part of this wonderful challenge, Bird a Week, is to try do make birds in different mediums.

I will try to challenge myself to make them in any medium possible for me,other than metal jewelry.

I used to make a lot of metal embossing pieces and I just let them on the side when I started making my jewelry. I think I will make my third bird with metal embossing, it is going to be great to go back to something I really enjoyed.

Here are some of my pieces I created with this technique !

I taught myself how to work with this technique and I am sure I may have been doing it with my "own" style ! 

One day I will love to learn how to do this with a professional artists.