Featured Artist – Hoshikaze

I’m Claire Goverts and I’ve been doing various arts and crafts as long as I can remember. I started beading back in middle school, working primarily with seed beads I even had a bead loom. When I went away to college I didn’t do any beading, I did mostly graphic art at
that point as my materials were all nicely contained within my computer. Then almost 2 years ago I got back into beading. My collection of beads rapidly outgrew the container from middle school as I bought different types of beads. And I also found wire. Most of
the jewelry I make now is still strung beads, but it also has a fair amount of wire wrapped pendants and other embellishments. I love trying new things. There are some days I’ll simply unroll some wire and start winding it around, adding beads and whatever else and see what I come up with.

I also do a bit with polymer clay, making some beads and pendants of my own. I’d like to expand the amount of works with clay sometime soon, for now I just don’t have the amount of space. I’d also like to do more metal work in the future, cutting blanks into patterns for interesting pendants. I’m also fascinated with glass, and am thinking
of seeing what sorts of glass classes there are in my area. Making my own glass beads would be cool. And I also want to learn more chainmaille weaves. I can manage a European 4 in 1 decently enough, but other patterns would be fun. I love to learn new techniques, and integrate various techniques together for something different.

I enjoy helping people learn things as much as I like learning things on my own. I have a tutorial up on Deviant Art, and am looking at more in the future. I’m also putting up various tips on my new bead blog that I hope will be helpful to others. I’m open to suggestions for posts on my blog (or DA tutorials).

Find my work on Deviant Art.
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Tags: arts, beading, beads, crafts, Handmade, pendants, polymer clay, seed beads, wire, wire wrapped

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