Yesterday was a day of small, satisfying accomplishments as I attended to my Etsy shop, which has been neglected for awhile. (Here's a link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/anthemsweet)
Accomplishment number one: I added a new listing. This crucifix was the first piece I sold on Etsy, but yesterday I made a new listing of it with a chain. This unusual crucifix is a piece of wearable art. It is three and a quarter inches high and has a lot of silver--two thirds of an ounce. I love the weightiness of it.
Accomplishment number two: I received a package of pieces from my caster. It's so exciting to see the bright silver. As soon as more fine silver chain comes in the mail I'll be able to get my leaf pendant and my dove cross up for sale again.
Accomplishment number three: I finished carving a new, smaller crucifix in wax, with the cross sort of morphing into a leafy tree. It's one and a half inches long, which felt really tiny as I was trying to be realistic and create detail on the corpus. Chances are I will further refine it before I send it to the caster, but for now I'm saying it's done. This picture of the wax model is not very legible, I'm afraid. I used two different kinds of wax, a lighter blue, slightly translucent wax which is the foundation of the piece and a darker blue, opaque wax for details and corrections. To make it worse the dark wax is shiny and the light wax not as shiny. On top of that, some of the lighter blue wax has lost its color and gone almost transparent because I started this piece so long ago. But I'm sharing anyway because I feel so good about making something new.
