• If you are looking for custom and pre-made book covers and interior book formatting please visit Medeiros Creative.

 

  • The Design and Illustration page will tell you more about my design skills, and has a copy of my digital portfolio.

 

  • To see examples of my art jewelry please click on Jewelry.

 

  • The Pithy Art Blog will return below with updated artsy craftsy good stuff.

 

Enchanted Challenge Dogwood Necklace

Enchanted Challenge Dogwood Necklace

by | Aug 28, 2018 |

This necklace turned out so pretty. And I love it all in copper with the crystals. To get the flowers to have some form, and not just be flat, I folded up some index cards as drying forms. The leaves and flowers did flatten out some during the firing process, but they...

Rocks!

Rocks!

by | Aug 15, 2018 |

On the edge of town in Holbrook AZ, 19 miles from the back door of the Petrified Forest is the best rock shop, ever! Jim Gray’s Petrified Wood Co. They have a rock yard where you can pick up peridot chunks, rose quartz chunks, geodes and you pay for them by weight. On...

Enchanted Challenge: Lila’s Garden

Enchanted Challenge: Lila’s Garden

by | Jun 26, 2018 |

I began the process for this project a few months ago. I began by making polymer clay molds of some original nautical images. I know the design in the book calls for floral designs, but I needed to work with something that I knew I would be able to draw without having...

Comic Book Cuffs

Comic Book Cuffs

by | Jun 14, 2018 |

Before anyone gets mad at me for destroying comic books, these were already pretty mangled and in the free bin at the used bookstore. You will need: Mod podge cardboard liners from tape rolls (ok I have big wrists so this works for me, if you have smaller wrists you...

My Clay Is Too Soft

My Clay Is Too Soft

by | May 24, 2018 |

This is the second part of a two-part original from The Pithy Art Blog post back in 2013. Part one: My Clay Is Too Hard can be read here Last month I explored options for what to do with stale dried up clay. This week I am looking at how to deal with the opposite...

Galaxy cabs -Wire Wednesday

Galaxy cabs -Wire Wednesday

by | May 16, 2018 |

I need to do more wire work. I’m thinking of working through a craft book, like what I’m doing with Enchanted Adornments. I’m not sure which book I should tackle just yet. I have a few in my collection already, it’s a matter of ienie-mienie-minie-moe. These gear...

Galaxy Glass Cabs

Galaxy Glass Cabs

by | May 8, 2018 |

They are shiny and sparkly and sooo much fun to make I tripped over this youtube tutorial the other day by CraftKlatch. I seriously have no idea how I found it, or what I was looking for. But there it was and it was sparkly, so I watched. And how cool are these...

Enchanted Challenge: Riverbed Ring

Enchanted Challenge: Riverbed Ring

by | Apr 24, 2018 |

Confession time: I was so nervous making this ring! I haven’t had my fingers in metal clay in over 2 years. But I still have lots of clay. At some point, someone started packaging PMC+ in 2 gram packets with an eye hook, for quick pendants or something. I know I have...