Congratulations to our Ocean Meets Desert Winners
In 2023, members of the Silver Hive in Arizona and the San Diego Jewelry Lab in California challenged each other to create something cool with a kit of special elements on the theme of Ocean Meets Desert. We opened up the voting to the interwebs and we now - purely based on number of votes - we have the winners!
Best of Show: Cactus Marine by Sandy Blackwell and Deb Yon (each get a Mondo Bop t-shirt).
Best Jewelry Piece: Cerulean Cholla Cuff by Amy Soldin (she wins a Mondo Bop tank top).
Best Objet d'Art: The Rock and Roll Special by Marianne Pickett (she wins a Mondo Bop mug or tote).
All participants also get a cool certificate from Ame and a goodie pack with a fused glass cabochon from Dusky and a selection of special metal arts items from Annette. Big thanks to everyone who participated and voted. We had a lot of fun! Click images to view larger.
In 2023, members of the Silver Hive in Arizona and the San Diego Jewelry Lab in California challenged each other to create something cool with a kit of special elements on the theme of Ocean Meets Desert. We opened up the voting to the interwebs and we now - purely based on number of votes - we have the winners!
Best of Show: Cactus Marine by Sandy Blackwell and Deb Yon (each get a Mondo Bop t-shirt).
Best Jewelry Piece: Cerulean Cholla Cuff by Amy Soldin (she wins a Mondo Bop tank top).
Best Objet d'Art: The Rock and Roll Special by Marianne Pickett (she wins a Mondo Bop mug or tote).
All participants also get a cool certificate from Ame and a goodie pack with a fused glass cabochon from Dusky and a selection of special metal arts items from Annette. Big thanks to everyone who participated and voted. We had a lot of fun! Click images to view larger.
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Big thanks to everyone who participated!
About the Contest
What is it? A private online exhibition and friendly competition between the members* of Silver Hive in Arizona and the San Diego Jewelry Lab. *A "Member" is anyone shows up at our free online Sawing Circle.
Show Dates: 6/1/23-8/30/23.
Theme: Ocean Meets Desert.
Why: Have fun! Showcase your work! Meet other Artisans!
Participants in alpha order: Miranda Anderson, Sandy Blackwell / Deb Yon Team, Chapin Dimond, Kathe Dunn, Dale Hanson, Diane Lee, Dusky Loebel, Jan Piazza, Marianne Pick, Karen Rood, Amy Soldin and Anne Wolf.
Cat Herders/Photo Wranglers: Dusky Loebel, Annette Campbell and Ame Stanko.
Show Dates: 6/1/23-8/30/23.
Theme: Ocean Meets Desert.
Why: Have fun! Showcase your work! Meet other Artisans!
Participants in alpha order: Miranda Anderson, Sandy Blackwell / Deb Yon Team, Chapin Dimond, Kathe Dunn, Dale Hanson, Diane Lee, Dusky Loebel, Jan Piazza, Marianne Pick, Karen Rood, Amy Soldin and Anne Wolf.
Cat Herders/Photo Wranglers: Dusky Loebel, Annette Campbell and Ame Stanko.
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Prizes donated by Mondo Bop
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Jewelry Entries
Collections of Sun and Sea
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Artist: Diane Lee
Under the Hot Desert Sun, I long for the Sea, All artifacts and tokens I keep. Just for me. Materials: Fine Silver, Depletion gilded Sterling Silver, Sea glass, Copper and Cholla wood. Measurements: 2.5” x 1.1/4” |
Cerulean Cholla Cuff Bracelet
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Artist: Amy Soldin
Our Arizona deserts cholla cactus meet the cool blue waters of the ocean. Fine silver metal clay pressed into a mold of the cholla, soldered onto sterling silver and formed into a cuff. I then crushed the sea glass and epoxied in the cholla eyes. I added a few more different colors of sea glass, and bit of turquoise. |
Birds of a Feather
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Artist: Dale Hanson
“Birds of a Feather” recognizes that birds are everywhere and adapt to their particular locale. A powder coat ocean with a Sand Piper and sea glass, along with Turquoise, cactus and a Road Runner topped by a KuemBoo sun shows the cluttered diversity of the bird world. This piece is a broach with a double pin back. |
Life's Reflections
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Artist: Kathe Dunn
As someone who lived in Arizona from age 8 to 18, I have up close memories of cholla cactus. Fun hikes (sometimes painful due to cholla) in the desert switched to casual strolls on the beach in San Diego. My pendant with the cactus skeleton standing tall behind the sea glass perched on twisting stems is a reflection of my life. |
Horse with No Name
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Artist: Jan Piazza
"The ocean is a desert with its life underground and a perfect disguise above ......" ~ America 1971 |
Desert Meets Ocean Necklace
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Artist: Miranda Andersen
View more of her work at linktr.ee/miranda_sen Materials: La Cholla cactus, sea glass, onyx beads, vintage silver beads, vintage cast silver sea shell, silver, copper. |
While creating this necklace, I was inspired by the colors and textures that are shared by desert and ocean environments: the pale beige cactus husk reminds me of driftwood, the sea glass is a vibrant green like kelp and cacti, and the black onyx and sterling silver beads represent the night sky, seen without city lights to distract us from the stars. As soon as I received the cactus husk, I felt compelled to fill its open spaces with color; like water filling a tide pool. I also wanted to bring in an element of sand, as it can be found in both places, which I’ve done by fabricating the bezel end-caps out of copper that I textured with sandpaper in the rolling mill.
Atoll Pendant
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Playing with epoxy and pigments giving the feel of the ocean, I utilized the sea glass to represent waves crashing up on rocks. The cholla wood represents an atoll, islands in a chain. I encapsulated the seaglass and the cholla wood in epoxy creating a sparkly blue swirl. Turning it on a lathe exposed this pattern creating a cabochon, then I set it in sterling silver.
Cactus Marine
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Artists: Sandy Blackwell and Deb Yon
The bail is mesquite tree bark. The backplate is Sterling silver and so is the fish. Prickly pair bone and the bark were covered with PMC slip. The cholla is Projected X metal clay. The bubbles are bronze beads. Sea glass is the stone. |
Objets d'Art Entries
Desert Light, Ocean Offering
Artist: by Anne Wolf
Which is your favorite, ocean or desert? No need to take sides here, you can change your mind whenever you want! The desert is represented by a copper candleholder with vertical hammer texture imitating the flicker of a candlelight. The ocean is represented by the cool color of sterling silver in the form of a shallow dish, with calm horizontal wavy hammer texture oxidized to a caribbean blue. A piece of seaglass goes from dark to glowing green as the piece is held to the light, and the two sides are connected by the mighty cholla.
Which is your favorite, ocean or desert? No need to take sides here, you can change your mind whenever you want! The desert is represented by a copper candleholder with vertical hammer texture imitating the flicker of a candlelight. The ocean is represented by the cool color of sterling silver in the form of a shallow dish, with calm horizontal wavy hammer texture oxidized to a caribbean blue. A piece of seaglass goes from dark to glowing green as the piece is held to the light, and the two sides are connected by the mighty cholla.
The Rock & Roll Special
Artist: Marianne Pickett
Desert and ocean mingle to create these tasty morsels. The original design was for a piece of jewelry with a cross section of the cactus skeleton layered with bezel set sea glass . But when I placed the two forms together, they shouted “sushi”. Ever a fan of fake food, I happily obliged. The seed pearl “rice” is suspended in resin inside textured patinated copper “seaweed wrappers” as the base for the cactus and glass. Materials used include seed pearls, copper, silver, resin.
Desert and ocean mingle to create these tasty morsels. The original design was for a piece of jewelry with a cross section of the cactus skeleton layered with bezel set sea glass . But when I placed the two forms together, they shouted “sushi”. Ever a fan of fake food, I happily obliged. The seed pearl “rice” is suspended in resin inside textured patinated copper “seaweed wrappers” as the base for the cactus and glass. Materials used include seed pearls, copper, silver, resin.
Desert Dreams
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Artist: Dusky Loebel
When I moved to the Southwest eight years ago, I instantly fell in love with cholla and all the beautiful plants and creatures of the desert. But as a child who grew up on the shores of Lake Michigan, I still dream of water. This wall hanging is an homage to both. Materials: cholla cactus, copper, sterling chain and bezel, alcohol ink. |
Ocean Meets Desert
Artist: Karen Rood
I was intrigued by the concept of Ocean Meets Desert and how to depict that in an art piece. For some reason a small tapestry came to mind. I pulled out my small loom and attempted a reversible tiny wall hanging where hanging the tapestry from the Cholla Cactus skeleton depicts the desert and hung by the driftwood the Ocean. The desert scene has a small sterling silver petroglyph and a bird and rabbit fetish. The ocean scene has the sea glass and small star fish that I drilled and made into buttons. Both sides flow into the sand in the middle
I was intrigued by the concept of Ocean Meets Desert and how to depict that in an art piece. For some reason a small tapestry came to mind. I pulled out my small loom and attempted a reversible tiny wall hanging where hanging the tapestry from the Cholla Cactus skeleton depicts the desert and hung by the driftwood the Ocean. The desert scene has a small sterling silver petroglyph and a bird and rabbit fetish. The ocean scene has the sea glass and small star fish that I drilled and made into buttons. Both sides flow into the sand in the middle
About the Contest
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Big thanks to everyone who participated!
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