Sterling Guitar Pick

This guitar pick is hand cut from a sheet of recycled sterling silver, shaped smooth with the bastard, sanded smooth round the edges then finished matte.

Plays a gorgeous tone. This is a treasure for many of my musical friends.

I have been experimenting with some hand stamping. I purchased some just fantastic forged hand tools from Kirsten Skiles (etsy), and they are great to play around with. I have my mind wrapping around some art deco designs lately, so don't be surprised if some interpretation of the 1920's and '30s start to worm their way into my work.

Long Time

It's time to apply CPR to the blog!
A new year seems as good a time as any to be thinking of taking this a bit more, not seriously, but maybe visiting more often!
I am designing new rings and just hope to get the time to spend in the studio to bring some of them to fruition!

Trois

Trois, originally uploaded by redcatrun.

Three hand sculpted cuboid beads - two steriing flanking a single gold - suspended from a sterling silver snake chain.

Elegant to wear.
Fun to play with.
Crosses the gold/silver divide.

Square Rose Gold

Square Rose Gold, originally uploaded by redcatrun.

I made this ring in a gorgeous 10kt rose gold which shimmers in the light.

It's burnished to a matte satin sheen and just wears with simple elegance on the ring or little finger.

It also looks pretty darned good paired with a sterling silver square to wear as twins!

Trunkt

http://www.trunkt.org/redcatrun/

Trunkt is an art and design collective made up of talented painters, graphic designers, fashion accessories, apparel and home accents designers and other creative entrepreneurs that make a living from their artistic skills.

Their mission is to champion independent designers and small retailers to mainstream shoppers and to keep mass-market merchandise and big-box retailers from overwhelming the globe.

They pay for promotion and advertising to a wide audience of industry buyers, designers, galleries & boutiques, via a variety of monthly and seasonal print & online media, who trust Trunkt as a filter.

Think of the website as a virtual, always-on trunk show featuring amazing independent artists and designers. The members create LookBooks of their work to attract new customers. LookBooks are free but membership is juried and therefore quite selective.

They drive traffic to your website and etsy store for either direct purchase or wholesale propsals.

This is a great marketing platform which I am pleased to be a part of and I want to thank the staff of Trunkt for selecting me.

Promo Card

Promo Card, originally uploaded by redcatrun.

So there is this cool tool at etsy whereby you can put together posters of a selection of your work.

This is my first pass at this; I have many more configurations up my sleeve that I need to play with to put together some more postcards, posters and brochures.

I have a feeling that the Toronto coffee shops and a few other venues are going to be seeing some of these around come September.

The marketing plan has been put in gear and is slowly pulling out of the driveway...

Wave

Wave, originally uploaded by redcatrun.

My latest commission - a sinuous wave of silver standing tall on the finger. It's a little wider than the one in my shop, as the client requested, and it looks good for it, I think.