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EZ's Modular Tomten Jacket. Knitted on 112 sts with KnitPicks Wool of the Andes Bulky yarn at a gauge of 3.5 sts/in for a 32" chest.
Features: I-cord edgings, ribbed collar and cuffs, after thought pockets, zipper. Phony reversible side seams, and slipped st sleeve detail.
settings:
Camera: Olympus E-450
Exposure: 0.25 sec (1/4)
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal Length: 42 mm
ISO Speed: 100
photoshop:
warming filter
colour balance for greens
contrast
We were setting a fish net on Great Slave Lake, NT. Gonna have have get photos of us checking the fish net next time we do it.
Necklace. Multiway (can be worn at three lengths).
Vitreous enamel on copper; sterling and fine silver, entirely hand fabricated setting and link chain. Garnet, vesuvianite, chrome diopside, tourmaline, prehnite, Canadian jade (nephrite), unakite, peridot.
The Mistletoe collection is obviously inspired by colonies of parasite Mistletoe plants, their surreal circular shapes seeming to float among the branches of the trees they colonise. Its status among humans has ranged from sacred plant to pest, but the truth of it is that, as with everything in nature, it is an ecologically important plant that offers food and refuge to wildlife.
The first two pieces date back to 2010, and I gave them new sterling frames in 2021. As most of my collections, I come back to it time and again, producing more pieces.
Something that didn’t dawn on me until much later is that my subconscious had driven me to design all of these as little gates or portals, through which a backlit view of spring appears, dappled sun glittering though the new, yellow-green leaves sprouting from branches. Thus the full name of the collection is Mistletoe: portals onto spring. The theme of greenery, fronds, roots, branches and particles floating in the sunlight spills out onto the frames.
The enamel is always in yellow-green to emerald green shades typical of spring, with a combination of techniques used ranging from wet-packing, dry sifting, over-firing and, always, painting on enamel with vitrifiable paints. Multiple firings are necessary, ranging from 910 to 810 °C. For this collection I use a range of stones in green shades, from the waxy opaque yellow-green of serpentine to super glittery, transparent micro-faceted vesuvianite… peridot, nephrite, green spinel, emerald-coloured chrome diopside… Sometimes I add a contrasting touch of warmth with, for example, garnets.