Commission: Rose Gold and Cherry Wood

This commission was such a joy and an interesting project.
A set of matching his and hers wedding rings.
 
Her ring.  9ct Unpolished Rose Gold with 0.5ct center Diamond.


His Ring.  9ct Unpolished Rose Gold with Cherry Wood

Some Ratchet Bling

I got to make this cool ring the other day.

Plays with two of my favourite things:

cool fonts and weird shapes.

His birthday party theme was "Ratchet"

No idea what that really means.

Soneda B wearing this.

First post of 2013... wow... 

and first commission of 2013... with a bit of a kick

Did this awesome name Necklace for Cape Town based Drag Artist,

Soneda B.

 

Brilliant performer, Soneda is freaking awesome and funny.

Check out her facebook page 

and speak to her if you have an event *wink wink, nudge nudge*

Her next show is Wednesday 16 January at

Bubbles Bar in Greepoint.

I suggest you get over there and see the necklace

....er...

I mean performance...

Soneda's saying is so cool:

Soneda Be yourself.

MCQP, Goodluck and a giant cat!

17 December was MCQP (Mother City Queer Projects)
I had the option to go, as Goodluck was playing and they offered me 2 tickets.
Best of all, I walk to their stage
and they had a giant version of my cat made!
It's huge and rad!
For in case you don't know, the cat,
is on their album cover and was a collaboration
between me and the amazingly talented Tenth Hour!
Goodluck was amazing, Jules, crazy!
The party! Wow!!!
Still can't believe

they gave me shout outs to the crowd!
Surreal!

Pearl and Sapphire ring...

I think this is such a cute engagement ring.
One of the more original ones I did.
9ct White Gold, Pearl and Sapphire ring.
So cute and dainty!

more commisions

I did another few commissions, here is the latest one.
I made these earrings with enamel and garnets to just hang from a stud on top.


They came out pretty cute I think...

Favourite commissions upto April

Here's just a few pics of some of my favourite commissions I did recently:

I know I've blogged about this one before... But it's still a favourite.
Sterling Silver Gents Wedding ring, Roman Numerals reading the wedding date.


A Gear Heart Brooch in sterling silver with hand pierced cogs.
Made this one that the cogs fit snugly into each other
and cannot turn but the effect is amazing when worn!

And then one of my Heart Rings.
I oxidised the sides and polished the edges of this one.

I'm feeling an urge to play with this idea again and bring out some pieces inspired by it...

Friends, Romans and Countrymen...

Post Indaba has been amazing. I've gotten the most amazing clients
, you know who you are,
and have been busier than I thought I would be.


So I have to brag about this commission. This is a lovely couple I met at the expo.
They were married on Friday [11 March 2011]
and had this ring commissioned for the groom.
The ring reads the wedding date in roman numerals [MMXI III XI].
It was so ironic as well, seeing as the day I finished it I was invited to a toga party...
Anyway I think it's such an amazing ring
and the enthusiasm shown by these people when we decided on the design was contagious. Hoping to get more clients like this.

goodluck to it all

So it's been a while... Miss me?

Things have been crazily busy on this side.

Here's a little update about what's been happening since our last little tryst.

I've been teaching (alot), besides teaching 2nd year technique at the university, I've been offering drawing (3d modeling, Rhino) because 1 of our lecturers resigned and did a 3 week introduction to jewellery course for the foundation course. Been working on my body of work for Btech, sadly only 6 pieces done out of a minimum of 20, I want 30 to 40... Eish...

And last but not least also one of the coolest:

I have been collaborating with friends of mine who study at Red and Yellow.

They were approached by a band (Goodluck) to do the art direction and design of their branding and album art. So we've collaborated and I've made the patterned jewels that go on top of a statue for the album.

The band is amazing, I had the fortune of hearing their new material in studio when we went to have a meeting the other day. Seriously check them out. So excited to see the album done and to see them perform live as the opening act for Basement Jaxx on 3/4 September. Very very awesome!

Some work for clients...

So I've been hard at work.... This has been a very busy few weeks for me. The fringe arts have opened a new store and I've been making pieces for them (but thats for another blog) and I've been teaching and doing commisions.

So in this post, I tell you this: These beauties gave me sleepless nights. Escuse the bad photo's byt the way. I need to take my camera for a service, anyone know of somewhere good?

So these rings are for two ladies I know. Very close to my heart. These are just very simple rings with each of their birthstones. The top one is a cusion cut citrine, the birthstone for Novemeber (Mine incidentally).

And this beauty is a star ruby (took me hours to photograph the star), which is the birthstone for July. They also asked me to make two pendants for the one's nieces. These are the little hearts.

The one lady has a similar pendant that I made, her nieces wanted ones aswell. But she didn't want them to have the same. So what I did was I painted the inside of the pendant with glasspaint (this is a new favourite of mine), each of their favourite colours. I am very impressed with these pieces.