Portrait of a girl… chalk, charcoal and pencil on canvas 38″ x 40″, 2011
with a light heart…
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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!
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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.
Divinity (a video aphorism)
I once let a monk look at my palms, he held them for some time and then looked me in the eyes and said, “You need to meditate.” I said, “Right?” and he said, “You need to meditate.”
This is a video aphorism, a play on sound and simplicity.
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Tagged Aphorism, Art, Black and White, Colorado, Conceptual, Contemporary, Crow, Installation, Raven, Video
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On Canvas
canvas, ink, latex and pencil, 152.4cm x 198.1cm (5′x6’6”)- Crystal Hartman, 2011…
sweet sterling silver
Sterling Silver jewelry hand-made in Lost Wax Design by Crystal Hartman… Using an old technique, I draw with wax to build up dots, lines and design. Then, pouring an investment mold around the carvings, we burn out the wax and pour liquid silver at 1800 degrees fahrenheit into the mold. Cooling and breaking away the investment, the jewels are ready to be cleaned… sanded, dremeled, tumbled, and buffed. Stones are set and the jewels are polished -some with a high shine and others, with a soft brushed finish.
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Culture Seen
Before Lisa Marie Sipe arrived at my studio I thought, better make sure people are around; I mean , she found me on the internet, contacted me though email. I don’t really know if she is who she says she is. And then I forgot about my nervousness and suddenly she arrived. Vibrant writer for CultureSeen -a blog on contemporary art, information, reviews and interviews, based out of Phoenix, Arizona- aunt, wife, politically charged thinker, encaustic artist… What began as an interview, turned into a discussion of process and life that ran from mid-day though sun-down.
Read the article here: CultureSeen.com
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Tagged Contemporary Art, Culture Seen, Illustration, Jewelry, Painting, Press
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Sweeter than Honey
Sweeter than Honey… sterling silver and carnelian bee pendants now available online!
Sweeter than Honey… sweet little bees are designed to bring bees into our daily conversation and awareness of their lives to our classrooms.
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Tagged adornment, Bee, Carnelian, Colorado, Contemporary, Design, Durango, Honey, Jewelry, Lost Wax, Sterling Silver
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