ok, so i just had another idea. I want to make a piece that shows like the emotion of a graveyard, like something that has the emotion of a candle set on a gravestone, but I don't want to just make a clay gravestone and put a candle on it, I want to make and "illuminated object'' that reflect that emotion....kinda confusing, but I really want to follow through with this

Next peice

So for my next piece, I'm thinking about doing something with jacks. I don't know what I'm really going to do yet, but I have some ideas. It's sort of a challenge to try to make an illuminated object out of jacks, but if I can pull it off it should be cool. I'm thinking I'll either take a bunch of real jacks and connect them with wire into a lantern shape of I'll make a jack out of clay or some other material and the four spheres of the jack with be hollow and hold the light.

For this project i did broken bottles inside of a wire structure. When lit up it looks like a fire. I love what the light does. My concern is that it is not very functional. I wonder if that's a problem though, because my concentration is "illuminated objects" and this piece is more a piece of art than a functional lantern as my past projects have mainly been. But my concentration doesn't really mean they need to be functional...

I am really stumped right now creatively and all. I've been trying to work on the wheel for the past two weeks and have not for my life been able to keep my pieces centered. Tomorrow I'm going to start on a project of like little light up huts to put in a tree or something and make it look like a village. i hope that works out. They'll be lanterns in that the light will be coming through the windows and door frame and stuff. Please let me know if you have any ideas because I could really use them.

For this project, I wanted to make a really large, heavy lantern, sort of old world looking. I used a gutter guard (that's the mesh) and then black wire. I think it turned out pretty well, but let me know if you can think of any improvements. I feel like it might be missing something, but I'm still pretty satisfied with how it turned out.

Tin Can Lanterns

Right now I am a little torn with my current piece. This project was a bunch of lanterns made out of tin cans. I was really going for that down to earth, almost hillbilly Huck Finn type look. I love how they all look when they are lit up. I was able to accomplish what I wanted them to do. The problem is that it isn't like any of the lanterns are very impressive in and of themselves, and I don't know if they would be considered art as much as a craft project. I really love the effect they have with the light though and the mood that they create. Again, the problem is that really anyone could make these and there is nothing super special, i guess, or unique about them. What do you think?

Wheel thrown lantern next

I really like the ornate detail to this lantern and think that for my next project I might attempt making my own on the wheel. I think that this lantern is pretty unique, so I'll make my own style and pull ideas from this one.