Punch Gallery in Seattle

I've just returned from Seattle where the Ring A Day exhibit is being held. The show runs through May 29th if you happen to be in the area. Bryan and I flew out last thursday for the opening night, what a great time we had.


These are just a couple of the cases. I've posted more images of the rings on my Flickr site. What an honor it is to be part of this, it's such a beautiful and exciting show. Seattle is gearing up for the SNAG(Society of North American Goldsmiths) conference at the end of the month so many of the galleries were exhibiting metal artworks. I can't tell you how inspiring and thrilling it was to see jewelry and metal objects in the galleries rather than just gallery after gallery of paintings.


We took lots of pics of our time in Seattle so I'll be posting throughout the week.

RAD exhibit

1. street sign swoop, 2. Mini Citybird, 3. ring #46, 4. Lucky #7, 5. Ring 50, 6. ringmaster, 7. elephant, 8. roger rockstar, 9. brush, 10. diamond2, 11. #279(rad pack), 12. dec.26-#360, 13. dec.29-#363, 14. Ring#365/365

These are the rings from my ring a day challenge last year that will be on display in Seattle at Punch gallery this May. I think Bryan and I are going to try and be up there for the gallery opening. It would be so exciting to see some of the other rings in person and to meet a few of the friends I made online through this challenge.

It's Finally Here......

Ring #365/365

Well, with my last name being Ring there just had to be an Andrea Ring ring don't you think? I've known for quite some time that this would be my final ring for the year but it wasn't until Christmas eve when I decided to watch A Series of Unfortunate Events( I really like the visuals in that movie) that I came up with the idea to create an entire scene for that last ring. I hope you've enjoyed the day by day play of this week.





The glow didn't show up on the video but I got a good still shot of it.

Happy New Year and I will see you in 2011 with a Sketch-A-Day!

ring A Day-#364

Ring A Day

Ring #363. Only two more rings to complete my little scene and the year!



Rings #360-#363 worn together.

ring#362

ring#362 copper,plastic and steel wire.
rings #360-362.

ring#361

part 2 of 6.

part 1&2 together.

FINAL WEEK!!!

I've made it to the final week for the Ring A Day challenge,woo hoo!

Most of the rings that I've made have been done very spontaneously without much thought prior to making. I decided to plan out this last weeks rings and do something really fun.

So, here is ring #360 (part 1of 6).

ring a Day #354 and #355

Ring a Day #352 and #353

Steel wire and metal from a King Leo peppermint tin.

Steel wire and tin from a candy container.Only 12 more to go!!

For some reason I have decided to do another challenge next year and will be doing a Sketch-A-Day for 2011. They will mostly be jewelry sketches Im sure but I have enjoyed the discipline of making myself do something everyday. Bryan even said that he may join in on this one!

Ring#336/365

I am into the final month for the Ring A Day project and I find that so aPEELing!!!

Ring#307/365

A custom Roger skull ring. The most detailed of the skull rings that I've done so far. Have I mentioned how excited I am to be nearing the end of the Ring A Day project! Oh, I will be so happy on January 1st to not have to make a ring.

ring #278

ring A Day #262

My EtsyMetal team member Victoria sent me a huge bag of little brown paper wrapped goodies. When I want or need some inspiration for the ring a day project I can open one package and use that item within a 24 hour period. Pretty cool,huh?! Tonight's item was a tin tart, now its a cute little ring that can house the citybird ring!

Ring A Day

I was recently interviewed for the Ring A day blog. The RAD 2010 project is going to be an exhibit next spring and also a book by Lark publishing will be out next year as well! Click here to read my interview and to check out other news about Ring A Day.

#199

The handles from the noisemakers that I've been using lately are so neat themselves, I just had to do something with one of them.

ring#199 noisemaker handle set in sterling silver

Day 193

An old tin noisemaker and sterling silver.

He fell into a ring of fire!

Yesterday and todays rings for the Ring A Day challenge.

"The Devil"(ring #174) is made from clay and steel wire then painted. Mike from Mike and Mary jewelry left a comment suggesting add a little fire, so tonight I did. Ring #175 "Ring of Flames" is made from steel wire and tissue paper.

rings137-143

A re-cap of the past weeks rings.

Vintage Lovelies

These are some vintage millinery petals that I picked up when we were in New York last August. I got quite a few at Tinsel Trading Co. along with lots of other vintage goodness!

A section of a wooden ruler makes up the ring shank, and a pale pink silk ribbon ties it all together.


I've decided that I'm going to just post these Ring-A-Day rings on my Flickr site(which is required for the project and you can access them on the left side of my blog) and not repeat them here again on the blog. I'll use the blog post for Amuck events, new designs that I'm working on, as well as objects and artists that I find inspiring. Also, any window displays/projects that I do at the store(my day job) will be posted in its own category of Flickr as well.