Thursday, February 25, 2010

more of my journal sketches


Here are the sketches for the earrings that I blogged about on tuesday. I forgot to put the sketches up.

Pages from my sketch journal

Here are som seeds of Dandelions i tried to create out of silver wire...

I have been thinking about the dandelion flower and how it is made up of individual little delicate seeds that float when you blow them and make a wish.








I really like the middle small sketch of the upside down umbrella flower, floating in the middle of the page.






The question I have been asking myself this week is: how delicate can a piece of jewellery be and what makes it feel so delicate. (still looking about and thinking about it.)



Designs from my drawing journal

Some design ideas for my shining lights competition drawings. They all come from elements and flowers i have been experimenting with.





My flower punch came into good use for this design

Dried out helicopter flowers

how beautiful are the veins in this semi dried out helicopter flower!!

I am busy looking at these dried out petria above to try and make some similar out of matel. I enjoy their delicate fragileness.

Monday, February 22, 2010

An Earring a day project

I decided to make a new design of an earring per day so I started off with these designs which I have used my Flower punch with...







Test piece enamel orchids

I am busy trying to create orchids out of fine silver and enamel

Here is an orchid from my sister's garden, but it has somehow lost most of its beautiful colour


Some of my test pieces for pink enamel on fine silver. As you can see the pinks donot work well on silver so I am now going to have to try on copper

Here are some of the orchids i made and tried out the enamel colours on


Orchid in Fine Silver
Petal pink in enamel Persimmon eamel
I think this colour was more successful than petal pink








Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Testing

Blackberry
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Monday, February 15, 2010

These Hydrangeas are so beautiful! They are growing in my friends garden

I bought this punch to start making flower paper cut outs


Thought I would try it out in fine silver rolled to paper thin thickness
Trying out different ideas with these flowers






Back to my Helicopter prototypes




Chriss taught me fold forming. It could be an option for the petals in my petrius flowers to make them stronger and to give them detail

I have been trying to create helicopter flowers out of fine silver. I have been trying all sorts of methods and different flower variations.

Cut out then put back through the roller

Cut out and hit with a punch in the middle
*I need the stem of the flower to lengther when I hit it with a punch

I think this would make a nice hair clip



I Heart Market



I did the I heart Market 2 weeks ago. I made studd earings out of silver, the photo's below show a bit of my process in making the earrings


Piercing out my shapes





Thursday, February 4, 2010

Jewellery I made and sold last week 28/01


(I'm not sure why this writing is underlined but I can't change it.)

















Interesting photo's from my holiday overseas dec 09

Spain
The Elhambra in Spain..... and amazingly decorated palace with intricate designs inside on the walls and roof














A cathederal in Malaga, Spain






Belfast


View from outside the kitchen window in Temple Patrick, Belfast




Belfast City Hall, Our City Hall is exactly the same as it was bulit off the exact same plans


France

I want a house like this when Im older :) ( France)