Sara Sally LaGrand - Artist Extraordinaire!

Rich.  Earthy.  Organic.  Filled with Life.

Sara's art.

The places to find Sara are listed at the bottom of this post.

My goal is to show case her amazing art so that you will have the distinct privilege of seeing these masterpieces without distraction.

No comments are needed except to say,

WOW!

Let's begin.

Bernadette, a brooch about a deep thinker.

Lisa, a brooch about a modern woman.

Sara featured this amazing sculpture in her blog!

 

Copper Ribbons

bottecelli

Eggo's Eyes

Sara Sally LaGrand

Artist Extraordinaire!

Places to find Sara Sally

Etsy

Pretty Babies

Blog

About This Time of Year

In June of 2010,

I took a lampworking class from 

Sara Sally LaGrand

at the Bead and Button Show in Milwaukee.

I learned how to make her glass corsage and glass necklace!

I think,

more than any other glass class I have taken,

this class has impacted me the most.

About this time of year,

I feel the need to make more pods, leaves, craters, headpins

to put together a small sculpture or necklace.

Last year,

these are the corsages I made.

 

This year, the urge to make struck earlier.

I'm still working with all those shorts I showed you earlier.

I am amazed at how many beads I am getting from them!

Included are the beads you'll see next.

I'm making a lot of pods, leaves, flowers and craters.

No matter how many I make,

I have found I need many, many more.

So,

here we go.

I'm making some wire pieces, like this wire nest and wire pod to add to the sculpture this year.

I'm still not sure if I'll work with dark annealed wire or copper.

Maybe, both?

I'm not sure.

I have a lot more craters made, but I took these pictures a few days ago, so

I haven't gotten them photographed yet.

These leaves will be fun to use!

Here are some headpins!  I think I'll make more of these!

Here are some pods and a flower.

More pods!

A flower and a pod.

Some leftovers from another project.

When I'm finished, these all might or might not go into my project.

About the only thing I know right now is that I am going to add more wire to whatever I made.

What do you think,

copper or dark annealed wire?

Glass Corsages

Last year,

at the Bead and Button Show,
I took a class taught by
Sara Sally LaGrand
called
Glass Corsage.
I will never regret that class
because it was
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!
I made a corsage then,
and
I have enjoyed it so much
that I thought I should make one for spring!
I have been making components for a while.
I ended up with enough components to make,
not one,
but two glass corsages.
One I will wear.
The other will go into my living room as a sculpture for all to see.
Here they are.
This is the corsage I will wear.

This is the one I will display in my living room!
I just love them!
Thanks, Sara Sally!

Ahhhh! The Bead and Button Show Sara Sally LaGrand's Class

Day 2 of my experience at the Bead and Button Show - Sara Sally LaGrand's Glass Corsage Class. Now, when you see this photo, you might think we had a terrible time in our class. In truth, you would be wrong. i can truthfully say that we had so much fun as a group. Sara faked this photo! She's way too sweet!





















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was our glass class! Sara smiled the whole time!


Day 1: we made our beads.
Day2: We put together our corsages and our necklaces! Just wait till you see!

















Here's a group photo of all our corsages. Can you find mine? Well, if you can't......
















Here it is!
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Here's my necklace! I love it!
I was stopped by so many people at the Bead and Button Show because they thought it was great! I don't just think it's great, I think it's AMAZING!















This necklace has hardly come off of my neck! I LOVE IT!


More tomorrow on the B & B Show!

Now, this is my favorite bead! And the winner is...

I made, it, too! Thank you, Sara Sally LaGrand! I learned to make it in the class I took from Sara at the Bead and Button Show.
I combined black for the center bead and I streaked it with chalcedony. Then I built the pod around the base bead. I put a final edge on the glass of chalcedony.

Wow! I'm in awe, and it's mine!
rofl







I almost forgot! And the winner is.....................
Mona and the Gaffer Girls!
Oh, I used the Random Number Generator at Custom Random Generator since Jenny was busy!
I'll get the vessel out to you this week!
Ang, Sydney, and esdesigns, you will each get one of my ugly beads! I just need some addresses from you. Send me a convo on Etsy or on Artfire!

Sara Sally Grand Bead Class at the Bead and Button Show

Wow! Wow! Wow! You can call that my reaction to the class I took at the Bead and Button show taught by Sara Sally LaGrand. Not only is she a classy lady, but she is an awesome bead maker. Be sure to look at Sara Sally's website for a better look at her beads.

The class I took from Sara involved both color theory and the use of silver glass in bead making. For our non bead maker friends out there, silver glasses are not silver colored rods of glass, but glass rods inundated with silver that react in very distinctive ways when kissed by the flame of a torch.

Now, when you visit Sara Sally's website, you will see examples of beads using silver glasses made by a master bead maker. My class beads weren't the best, but I certainly learned a lot in this class about treating silver glasses more kindly than I had in the past. Here are my beads from the class.


















I love the pod beads and the crater bead. It cracked, though, but I will find a way to wear it! Thank you, Sara Sally, for the great class.

Oh, and Sara Sally was also featured in the Convergence display at the Bead and Button Show. The Convergence display was sponsored both by the Bead and Button Show and the ISGB (International Society of Glass Bead Makers). Here's Sara Sally's entry. Trust me when I say this, the photo does not do her work of wearable art justice.

















Do you see what I mean when I say Sara Sally is an amazing artist? She's also a class act person! So ends another day at the Bead and Button Show!