Posting for the sake of posting

Well I feel a bit out of it seeing as I haven't blogged for a while.... But lemme just update for the sake of updating....

At the moment I am making a few pieces, pieces for clients, myself and soon pieces for my B-tech... the latter being the hard part seeing as I have no idea where to start.

Let me start with the cleints first.... Recently made a ring for a friend, it's based on a knuckle duster, its was 2 d-shaped bands soldered together to fit on her idex and middle finger with her name in bold cursive letter on top. Highly polished silver... The second is a set of cufflinks I am designing and making with pierced out detail and resin inlay.

The personal pieces were and are, a claddagh ring such as those I designed last year (for my 3rd year collection, yes pictures to follow soon) , but just tweaked slightly as I made the shank broader and added gold detail. Right now I am making a rosarie (yes, again), its a semi-gothic inspired cross with the spacer piece beiang triangular and set ontop of that is a 2ct blue star sapphire... this piece is a work in progress though, because of my indecisiveness in its design, originally i was going to do semi precious beads with silver spacers but now I am considering chain... so It's become one of my design-by-bench pieces.

Now my B-tech pieces..... this is my biggest problem.... my thesis is about jewellery in the gay community... problem being how do you desing for gay men and women? Watch this space as I try and figure that out.... I'm doing some research the weekend, I'm pretty sure a piece will come out of that...

This is my plique-a-jour goblet. It is 100% fine silver and is made out of graduating brown and yellow enamels. The top dome is the plique-a-jour technigue, where the enamel has no back plate to support it, the bottom is champleve. The goblets was inspired after I read the brief and it said geometric patterns work the best. I've always wanted to make a honeycomb and cast and organic object. So for this I considered both options. On the inside of the goblet is a bee that I cast and set a black pearl into its abdomen. Underneat the bee is a thread and a washer to hold the top dome in place. the bottom dome is also held in place with a screw and a washer underneat in a floral pattern. The bottom pattern is known as the humonko, which is used in an anime I watch called bleach, but is known as a the death sting in japanese. This goblet is now in the permanent collection of CPUT along with other done by fellow classmates.