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Jewelry

What Box? Five Ideas for Innovative Approaches to your Creative Business

August 17, 2010

WHAT BOX?

> Five ideas for innovative approaches
to your creative business
Last week I offered my email list a free 7-page booklet “FOCUS”
Most of this email talked about you, me, creative coaching, and four places that I had opening up in my schedule for individual work with me.
The email below was typical of those I [...]

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Friday Studio Update 3.26.10

March 26, 2010

Friday polymer jewelry: colorful finished mokume gane brooches this week. Colors and patterns were a delicious immersion. Email me with comments, questions and to purchase.
Thanks! Tory      victoria@toryhughes.com

These will be heading over to my store. Details here. They are all available as of this writing.
Email me to purchase, if you rather- victoria@toryhughes.com, by  Paypal [...]

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Friday Studio Update 3.19.10

March 20, 2010

We had two(!) blizzards this week. Power to modems was off yesterday.
Pictures below.
You’ll love this. My Six Directions book is starting to come together.
It’s a guidebook for you on creative action.
After years of working with people in classes and individually, this is coming together in a form that I hope will be quite accessible and [...]

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Friday Studio Update 3.12.10

March 13, 2010

This Friday’s summary of my studio week. Always lots to show you, but these are the pieces at my front door for you to see.
What a week, full of activity and change. My ongoing mokume gane series have transformed into fresh spring colors and patterns.  No silver on these, just polymer. Felt like I was [...]

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Art and Life in Santa Fe

March 10, 2010

I’m Tory Hughes. Nice to have you visit!
This site is about creativity, what I do with my creative actions, and what life is like here in Santa Fe. There are links to other sites here too. Enjoy!
I am an artist, teacher and creative coach.
I make art jewelry and sculptural objects using polymer and mixed media.
My [...]

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Friday Studio Update 3.5.10

March 6, 2010

Fridays bring an end-of-the-week summary to studio days.
Spring has swept into my Santa Fe studio, and settled in. I’m immersed in metalworking, new color palettes, and a compulsion to create forms inhabiting a different relationship to gravity. This week I made brooches.

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Friday Studio Roundup 2.26.10

February 26, 2010

Fridays bring an end-of-the-week summary to studio days.
This week, I’ve had a great time combining different polymer and mixed media elements into one-of-a-kind hinged pendants and necklaces. These will be heading over to my store.
Here, I want to show you what I made, and give you details. They are all available as of this [...]

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Negative Space

January 26, 2009

Today’s territory:

Design, using negative and positive space.
Employ contrast to guide your viewer wherever you choose.
Direct attention toward what excites you.
Duality reigns here in the material world:

We notice by its contrasts:
empty by full, black by white, here by there,
kind by cold, sun by shade, tension by release.
We pay attention to presence and absence.
This is part [...]

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Faith And Action 1

January 15, 2009

Today’s territory:
Having faith in doing something new, perhaps unnerving, even for just a few moments.
What new possibilities can then occur from that new action?
Sometimes we just have to face downhill and go for it.
Faith illuminates the edge of our assumptions.
Faith highlights our fears by offering a contrast to them, and a way past them.
This is [...]

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Serendipity

January 11, 2009

Today’s territory:
Serendipity and intuition.
Serendipity is when the universe of possibility says ‘Oh! here’s something that may fit with what you are doing.”
Serendipity surrounds us constantly with possibilities. Part inspiration, part coincidence.
Intuition is acting on the inspiration to use the coincidence.

Coincidence, inspiration, synergy.
Any reason to act on them?
Any reason not to?
My stamp brooches came [...]

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