I Musta Been Nuts!

I've been working with wire since I was a kid, as I mentioned in a previous post.  Even before the wonderful array of colors of Artistic Wire and other art wires were invented, I haunted hardware stores for a variety of gauges of copper, brass and any other metal wire I could find.  Because the wire in hardware stores is made for utility and function and not for creating art, I ended up using fairly heavy gauge wire to create my pieces.

Since I also have a passion for gourds, it was just natural for me to combine wire and gourds, right?  So I began the painstaking process of weaving fairly heavy copper wire over a bottle gourd that looks like a genie's bottle, which is what I named the piece.

This gourd seemed to take forever to make, because wire likes to kink.  So with each stitch (of which there are hundreds!), I had to use my small needlenose pliers to straighten the stitch out so that it formed a smooth curve...

 As I was getting crankier by the minute while working on this gourd, I thought, "Whose idea was this anyway??"  Sometimes my brain makes wonderful pictures of art for me to create...and sometimes it's easier said than done!  And when all was said and done, I was thrilled with this piece!

Ciao for now,

Deborah