michelle's jewellery: June 2011

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

anglo gold continued......

Using the three dimensional Hydrangea silver ring as a design start for this bold and sleek category for anglo Gold.

Anglo Gold

There have been many competitions and exhibitions that have been on and i have been adapting my work or adapting the brief to fit into my work.

The first one was anglo plat. Because of the 2 entries required (an accesory and a statement piece) I had to pick wisely the theme so that I could carry on using my hydrangeas in my entries as the hydrangeas are still the area that I am working on in my own work.

I chose dual purpose for a statement piece and I chose accessory for bold and sleek.

For dual purpose I developed on sopmething similar I have designed before but changed it and improved it. It is a neck piece that turns into a hand piece.

here was the process....

Started off with this idea but the flowers needed to wrap more around the hand- needed to be more of a "statement piece"

This was the start of the piece around the neck. Not bold enough!

So i added more layers to it and this fuller feel was more what I was trying to achieve.

This picture below was when I tried to cover the neck more with the links and flowers but I feel the flowers look spare and there is not enough shape to complement the neck line.

I have been enjoying this process of designing by making a prototype and putting it together, then adjusting it etc and taking photo's on ther body to see what it looks like.