Announcing my QuickArt Templates

I am happy to announce my  QuickArt Templates with very organic designs I am sure you will love to use. The templates are available at Metal Clay Supply. More brand products will be available soon !

You can mixed and match different shapes to create unique pieces of jewelry like these samples I made:

You can add some extra details like the flowers or simple just use the shape and add a texture and patina (like Gilders paste) to them.

My love for NICHOS.

I have always had a strong connection with the Mexican traditional "Nichos". They really captivate my attention and make me get closer to them and see their beauty and what treasures they hold inside.


Nichos are a popular adaptation of the Catholic "retablos". They can be made out of mixed materials and decorated with colorful details.
Usually "nichos" display religious objects but nowadays they can be made with any object that may have a strong meaning and place in your heart and family.


Nichos have been a great inspiration in my work and I have made some of them in different metals and designs.

These are some of my nichos.

This necklace was made with two pure silver nichos and small bronze nichos, this piece is very close to my heart. The images I added into each nicho are from my daughter, Veronica. She was born three months early with only 1 pound 11 oz of weight.
This necklace is a celebration of her fight to live and her triumph of survival.

This pure silver nicho has an image of a painting I made of the Virgen of Guadalupe.

 This fabricated copper nicho helps me display my work.

I made this pure silver nicho as a gift for a great artist and my mentor, Claire Holliday when she retired as the Metals department Chair at Southwest School of Art. 

Sterling silver nicho and pure silver heart.

Fabricated copper nicho with Mexican milagros charms, acrylic paint, 

resin and coral.

Bronze nicho.

Fabricated copper nicho displaying my heart mixed media nicho.

Fabricated heart copper nicho with resin and charms.

This is my newest fabricated copper nicho. I am still working on it and very soon will have some treasures inside.

Hope you enjoyed my nichos, I made them with lots of love.


Lorena

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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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