Lisa
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August 25, 2020
LPDstudios - Style - Shopping for Vintage
LPDstudios Style - Shopping for Vintage with Daughters -
August 14, 2020
LPDstudios - Extra Endeavors -High School Musical - Legally Blonde
Re-posting some fun moments from this year!
This year I had a rare opportunity to be the costumer for this years high school musical "Legally Blonde". The kids were amazing, hardworking and very receptive to my ideas. I had a ton of fun playing into the old tropes and stereotypes of the characters, which where almost 12 years old. And, figuring out how to make a "Playboy Bunny" costume appropriate for a high school actress. I am sure we got some backlash along the way, but then isn't that what art has always done.
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August 11, 2020
LPDstudios Blog: Pinterest Pick - Art Deco Inspiration
Art Deco is a term used to describe a style of visual arts, whether its architecture, furniture design, paintings, jewelry or clothing. The term was coined in France after World War 1, and in it's heyday represented luxury, glamour and technological progress.
I have always loved art deco paintings for the color, vibrancy and angular lines. Here are a few of my recent favorite art deco inspired artwork, found on pinterest, and you'll see a commonality in the attention to female elegance of the 1920's, flapper era. Visit my Pinterest Picks Board to see more!
What era of artwork are you inspired by?
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May 14, 2020
LPDstudios - Inpiration - Family
Dinosaur Rock
Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
The Family
The Dinosaur
We've had plenty of family time during quarantine and done a lot of hiking. But, Dinosaur Rock is in my top favorite. Even though it is full of colorful graffiti, this series of randomly emerged and perfectly stacked rocks emerged 200 million years ago. I don't know how many times I circled this structure, more amazed every time about how wonderful and awesome nature is, even with graffiti.
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April 02, 2020
LPDstudios- Family Love Trinkets - Sharks Tooth Necklaces
Recently I received an unexpected email from California, a request for two custom necklaces. Through a google search they had come across my sharks tooth necklaces that I had made for a previous customer. My clients stories of travel, the sharks dive, tradition, and family was so beautiful, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to put all those ideas of love into one place. Not only did they want a charm for the teeth but they requested several other love trinkets to appear with it, the coordinates where the sharks teeth where found and a compass rose. The compass rose was their family tradition of always finding there way home.
I decided to create my compass rose charm out of fine silver metal clay. I love this product, its a finely ground powder of fine silver mixed with a binder. The end product is a material like clay or "play-doh", which is easily manipulated to create many shapes that can be built and layered. After all my shapes where created, I then combined the triangles and circles to create the compass rose. The challenge was to create two charms that where the similar. After the shapes are "bone" dry, they are put into a high temperature kiln, burning off the binder and leaving solid fine silver behind.
To make the coordinate charms I used stainless steel letters designed for jewelry making. Each letter is hand stamped with a brass mallet onto sterling silver creating the mark. I made vertical charms for the longitude coordinates and horizontal charms for the latitude coordinates. Your always going to have a few mess ups with this step, so its good to practice several times beforehand.
The coordinates are trimmed, sanded then polished to create the charm.
To attach the bail onto the sharks tooth, I must create a hole. I pull out my secret weapon, my husband. He is a dentist so I leave this step up to him, he never fails and is always precise.For the final pieces I used liver of sulfur to blacken the charms, bringing out the letters and textures. A beautiful end result for a beautiful story.
