Fantastic storm! And as I live right on the Sussex coast we are getting the best of it (or the worst, depending on your point of view…)
I enjoy these storms – at least, I enjoy looking at them – trying to walk along the seafront this morning was a bit of a challenge, to say the least! The sea was all the colours of fluorite – purple, grey and dark green – and the waves were huge even though the tide wasn’t in. High tide is at 1.00 today so I will probably pop out to admire nature at her most frisky around that time, before running back inside for some tea and chocolate biscuits. In appreciation of the storm, I am attaching a pic of a bangle which features a fluorite nugget, and lots of frothy green moss agate.
Showing posts with label silver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label silver. Show all posts
Monday, 10 March 2008
Thursday, 6 March 2008
Pink Seashore Cuff
Pink Mangano, pink peruvian opal, rose quartz, garnets, goldstone, pearls, seashells, coral and lots and lots of silver - this is beautiful, contemporary, heavy and very, very eyecatching! Plus - it is shaped like a fish!
This one took a while – there are a lot of gemstones woven around the wave shaped silver wire interior. It is girly in the extreme and looks like it should belong to a mermaid... More pics at Seacandy
Wednesday, 5 March 2008
Cappuccino Cream Fondant Pendant
I have been trying to think about the best way to use this space – I think it is going to evolve into a diary of work, sprinkled through with tutorials and general information on jewellery making, ie, suppliers of materials, links to other jewellery artist’s sites, etc.
As I don’t want it to be just a list I will try and pull in the suppliers, inspirations, and associated bits and pieces of info where they are relevant to the pieces I am working on.
At the beginning of this year I decided I would try and create at least one piece of jewellery each week, (inspired by the YOJ competition in the US) so that by the time the summer came and exhibitions started to happen, I would have some new and original work to choose from to show at each event and would be able to avoid showing the same work twice.
But the blog only started yesterday – 4 March 2008 – so I can’t write about each piece as I create it because that would leave the earlier pieces from this year out – and I don’t want to keep them “in reserve” to post on weeks when I don’t create anything because that is the sort of excuse that will make it toooo easy for me to have a week off….
My solution is that I will try to play catch-up for the first week or two of March, and write about the earlier pieces daily – or “second daily” -- until they have all found a home on the blog, but I will add in new pieces as I finish them. You will have to guess which are which!
Having said all that I feel I should start!
The piece opposite (and up a bit - I haven't got the hang of making things appear exactly where I want them on the page yet) is called Cappuccino Cream, (should there be one ‘p’ or two?) and was created in January 2008 with an oval cappuccino jasper from mineral warehouse and sterling silver wire from Palmer Metals. There is a woven bail at the top and the front has small scrolls of silver around the edges holding the stone in place, whilst the back is a netted bezel (see Eni Oken for more information on netted bezels). The wrapped stone measures approx an inch and the woven bail another ¼ inch. It was complicated to make - the wire was threaded through the stone, looped into a double bail and then wound all around the outside of the stone again to form a base for the double spirals and the netted bezel to attach to. The spirals had to be held together with coiled wire links and the bail woven with 0.2 mm wire.
As I don’t want it to be just a list I will try and pull in the suppliers, inspirations, and associated bits and pieces of info where they are relevant to the pieces I am working on.
At the beginning of this year I decided I would try and create at least one piece of jewellery each week, (inspired by the YOJ competition in the US) so that by the time the summer came and exhibitions started to happen, I would have some new and original work to choose from to show at each event and would be able to avoid showing the same work twice.
But the blog only started yesterday – 4 March 2008 – so I can’t write about each piece as I create it because that would leave the earlier pieces from this year out – and I don’t want to keep them “in reserve” to post on weeks when I don’t create anything because that is the sort of excuse that will make it toooo easy for me to have a week off….
My solution is that I will try to play catch-up for the first week or two of March, and write about the earlier pieces daily – or “second daily” -- until they have all found a home on the blog, but I will add in new pieces as I finish them. You will have to guess which are which!
Having said all that I feel I should start!
The piece opposite (and up a bit - I haven't got the hang of making things appear exactly where I want them on the page yet) is called Cappuccino Cream, (should there be one ‘p’ or two?) and was created in January 2008 with an oval cappuccino jasper from mineral warehouse and sterling silver wire from Palmer Metals. There is a woven bail at the top and the front has small scrolls of silver around the edges holding the stone in place, whilst the back is a netted bezel (see Eni Oken for more information on netted bezels). The wrapped stone measures approx an inch and the woven bail another ¼ inch. It was complicated to make - the wire was threaded through the stone, looped into a double bail and then wound all around the outside of the stone again to form a base for the double spirals and the netted bezel to attach to. The spirals had to be held together with coiled wire links and the bail woven with 0.2 mm wire.
Tuesday, 4 March 2008
Okay, well that seemed to go okay. Have set up this blog on the advice of my partner who is an established artist Colin Bailey at Ryepress and has become the local web messiah. I am really hoping to get in touch with other jewellery artists / designers to share ideas, inspiration and connections. I have been obsessed by jewellery design since I was a child, but it is only in the last few years that I have managed to find the time to dedicate to learning the skills to turn a collection of items into a wearable piece of art. Some of my work is viewable at Seacandy and I am now going to post this piece of text and see what I have to do next to add pix etc.
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