Everything's Rosey

Hey guys! So, I've not posted in a LONG time, but that doesn't mean nothing's been happening. Quite the opposite actually. A hella of a lot has happened! This term at uni's been manic. We've had 3 projects over the past 12 weeks. It's been hard, but fun. I'll post about that over the Easter break, when I have a little more 'me' time. I have lots of other exciting things to babble on about too. But at the moment I'm on the cusp of a deadline so I'll just keep this post short!

Remember the stalagmite inspired pieces I made before? The bumpy organic ones? Well, I finally finished them up!

Here, have a gander at MY pleasure :)

Some of the pictures seem to have vanished between my camera and here... I'll hunt them down (never fear!) and pop them up asap.

OH and just so you know. I'm making more of these over Easter and will be selling them soon after. If you're interested, let me know. Email me at caitling-t@live.co.uk and we'll make it happen!

Final Pieces:

Silver and 24 carat gold plated.

The rings are stackable to create your own mini cave!

Rearrange the layers to suit yourself.

The earrings are solid silver with 24 carat gold plating and are oxidised on the back layer.

Test Pieces For Professional Experience Project:

Excuse the sprews on some of them, I haven't cleaned them up yet! 

I love animals with tiny feet

LOOK

Look What I've Done:

During our first, or maybe second, week of Uni the First, Second and Third years of BA Jewellery And Silversmithing collaborated to create Christmas presents! A little early you might think? Well, so did I. But it was fun anyway. The presents we made were to be gifted to other BA students as part of an exchange at Christmas. We were all to make a present in a group (the presents were all meant to be wearable and reflect a similar theme to th
e rest of your group) we then decorated boxes for them to hang from the School Of Jewellery Christmas tree once it's erected.

My group's theme was 'All That Glitters Is Not Gold' (I kind of manipulated it this way, you'll find out why later!). And this is what I made:

It's a ring (the shank made from a ring bound sketchbook). The 'flowery' bit is from felt, I added a metallic paint to the outside and inner edges, which dried with a metal/plastic feel. I also painted some cocktail sticks which I added to the inside and created a webby mess with UHU glue! Sounds crappy but I loved it!
It's a shame that I have to give it away because whoever gets it probably won't appreciate it as much as I do so they'll just chuck it in the bin!

Oh Land - Rainbow

I've definitely got a bit of a thing for all things sparkly at the moment! I've loved GOLD for a while now, but recently anything with a shine to it has caught my fancy!
This song's lovely, but the glitter in the video most certainly makes it better.

Welcome to the project of FUN...du du du du du

I neeeeeeeeeeeed something to do next week while I'm back in Birmingham for work, so I'm giving myself a fun drawing project (well, two):

Project 1:
To do some cute little stickmen drawings. I love drawing stick men, I love incorporating text in my work...so I'm going to combine to two! I think I'm going to call it something like 'Stickmen Doing Stuff, With Words'. It'll literally be that. A drawing of some stickmen doing something, with a caption to match their action. What fun!

Project 2:
I've started to think about what I want to use as inspiration for my next project at uni. After a recent trip to the coast I found myself interested in the formations of barnacles. I like how these forms are built up from lots of one similar shape. The result being something almost quite grotesque to look at, yet simultaneously intriguing.

I'm going to draw from the photos I took on the beach, and maybe try to create my o

wn similar formations.

I'm reminded of these rings by Maud Traon when I think about the shapes I'd like to make.

www.maudtraon.net

EXCITING TIMES