Posted in Ideas
Leave a comment
Detail of a new design, a large, high-grade Gaspiite stone with carved wax soon to be cast into sterling silver.
Posted in Jewelry
Leave a comment
Lost Wax Carving for a Sculptural Bracelet by Crystal Hartman…
Posted in Jewelry
Leave a comment
Posted in Ideas, Painting
Tagged Art, birds, Colorado, Contemporary, Crystal Hartman, watercolor
Leave a comment
Posted in Jewelry
Tagged Art, bands, Crystal Hartman, Jewelry, ring, silver, sterling, wedding
Leave a comment
with a light heart…
Portrait of a girl… chalk, charcoal and pencil on canvas 38″ x 40″, 2011
Posted in Ideas
Leave a comment
Wind in the Grass
Sterling Silver Cuff Bracelet carved and created in the Lost Wax Process by Crystal Hartman, 2012… Inspired by the movement of wind and grass and water.
in the Lost Wax process
jewels carved in wax and cast into sterling silver or gold…
Individual carved pieces are waxed together on a tree, an investment mold is poured around the tree and then placed in an oven to burn out the wax and hold at a temperature of 1300 degrees fahrenheit until it is removed and molten silver is poured in… after the mold and fresh metal has cooled a bit, it is slowly submerged in water. The mold breaks apart and metal exposed. Clip, sand, clean up the castings, solder, buff, set the stones, polish and clean and polish and, deliver to new homes!
Posted in Jewelry
Tagged Art, casting, Contemporary, Jewelry, kiln, Lost Wax, process, silver
Leave a comment
little houses left behind
address book, glass, soil, rusty nails, nests, typewriter case, poppies and orchids
sculptural installation and performance piece by Crystal Hartman with The Panoply Project shown here at The Rochester Hotel during I am a Scientist, October 28, 2011.
haiku
He lowered his trunk,
filled it up like a bucket.
Be water my friend.
C.H.
