Clay element forms and arrangements

This is the element I choose from my
 shweshwe fabric and used
 it tomake my forms
 with clay flat and 3D version.

shweshwe fabric I choose
 my element form.

The left hand arrangement it balanced and it forms a pattern, center arrangement feels more like forming a shape and the right hand arrangement it forming the 3D and flat forms are forming a contract in the arrangement.

Experience - walk to the market

Walking around the market really opened my eye to different ideas in terms of references and that there is a lot you can develop from other peoples creations and beliefs. This is the Shweshwe fabric my group and I choose at the fabric shop by market, because of the different patterning. 

shweshwe frabic

these are the sketches of the elements
 I toke from the shweshwe fabric

These are the sketchesI did during
 the walk of the buildings and what was
around me that was interesting. 

Perceptions attached to Jewellery 

I choose Alexis Kirk, his work is in addition to spiritual, occult and ethnic influences, he used materials such as exotic woods, pewter and plastic alongside more traditional metals. Kirk's work was always designed on a large scale, the designer favored sculptural designs in striking shapes, bold and materials which made a statement (over sized jewellery gets favor).

Alexis Kirk 
Mod wood disc necklace

Contemporary jewellery

The challenges are that this brooch is lighter, less metal use and it made out of silver only. Alexis Kirk thinks that jewellery such be bold and make a statement, so his challenging that jewellery can be large and use different materials and still be worn. I choose Alexis Kirk, because I enjoy looking at big bold jewellery and it makes a piece look expensive.

Dot Sim
Brooch pin

Final piece

I found this project very interesting, because I wasn't sure about what I'm
going to come up with and manufacture and it turned out to be enjoyable,
 it really pushed me to be better,believing in myself and work harder. 

Pendant
made out of sterling sliver and
 it been blacked .

Texture made with shweshwe fabric,
 rolled through the roller.

 Design development process 

Finding interesting shapes from my reference and playing around
 with overlapping, repeating elements  

Trying to come up with a more detailed and overlapped more element
 to find a form to work with for the final piece. 

Decided to work with this element.

Fingering out my elements using paper
 and how to manufacture it.

Practicing how to fold metal. 

CIRCUS INSPIRED 

I choose body painting, because of how interesting is the forms and shape the body can create and the patterns that forms movement, this picture show the elements and principals of design such as lines, contract, movement, form and unity that what made me interested.     

Circus body painting

My Greebles final piece

The neck piece helps Bubble heart to control the powers, not to over power her when 

she's connecting to someones thoughts and heart. I decided to use the Shweshwe fabric to give my piece a traditional feel, because she got the gift from her Ancestors.

My Greebles inspired story 

There was a girl born blind called Bubbly heart and everywhere she shared her kind heart people always seemed to have a smile on they faces, when she was 11 yrs she fell very ill and was sent to Doctors, traveled from Hospital to Hospital and seen every kind of Specialist but they couldn’t find anything wrong with her. She spent days which became weeks and turned in to months, with each day passing Bubbly heart gets more ill until one day when all modern medicine failed.

 Her parents decided to take her to a Traditional healer and they discovered that Bubbly heart had a gift that her Ancestors have bestowed upon her the gift to read hearts and see through the vial of life and death, a bright light shines from the eyes of the child and this was the sign that she had a gift. All that was required is the child to accept this gift and start using it to bring peace to the world of good and evil, she also needed a chest piece to connect with and controlling the powers.

She uses the chest piece to read, see other people’s heart and thoughts. Her personality is bubbly and strong, but whenever she feels the connection with someone’s heart or thoughts she becomes soft at the same time  her powers gets stronger and more powerful that when her chest piece helps her not to be cover powered by her powerful gift also. 

FINAL PIECES 

After all experimenting and exploring with texture and shapes,

 I ended up making earrings and a pendant that has texture which was from the one of the laces. it came out almost like an kiwi fruit skin which I was happy about.

Earrings
gliding metal 

Pendant
sterling sliver and gliding metal

forms

Finding my form, I used clay to play with so I can play with different shape that a  kiwi fruit forms.

I decided to use the oval shape that are in different sizes to see if I can come up with something interesting for my final design.

Started  experimenting with the shape in  metal and how the texture will be
included within the shape. 

Using lace and granulation to found texture

Using lace materials was my best experience and a interesting way to get texture, it come out very detailed and textured then the rest of  the experimentation's.

                    

  Aluminium plates                           Laces

 

This is anther texture that i came up with using gliding metal, i made balls that i soiled on a plate and  rolled it throw the roller.

Trying to get texture out off paper cutouts patterns

I printed 3 kiwi fruit pictures and  started cutting out the negative spaces to form patterns 

using aluminium plate I rolled the paper pattern throw the roller.

These are the texture I end up getting, which i really didn't like.

Cotton fabrics texture

In order to found a texture I need for my final design, I had to experiment with different cotton materials. 

cotton wool, cotton fabrics and shoe lace material,
used gliding metal plates to roll the fabrics throw the roller to get the texture on the plates.

Inspiration

Looking from my 3 blog posts of jewellers and what they have in common is textured work, I chose a kiwi fruit as my inspiration, what I liked about this fruit is the outside texture and the inside which I found very interesting and not so dramatic.

I decided to dry the skin of kiwi friut to get the texture of the skin but it didn't work as I thougth it would, 

Naomi James

Naomi James graduated in jewellery at middlesex. she works with a variety of materials, always designing as she works allowing the making processs to inspire the final design. she has experimented with feathers, dried flowers, leaf skeletons and found that an amazing amount of detail was picked up on the silver, what interest me in this brooch was the different texture on the brooch. Naomi James can be found on love dazzle and her website Naomi James




 Naomi James 
earrings
made in sterling silver



 Naomi James 
pendant
made in sterling silver

 

 

                                               

 Naomi James 
brooch
made in sterling silver

 

Sarah Straussberg

Sarah Straussberg graduated from Brihgon University in 2011 with a BA (hons) in 3D meterials practice. she is inspired by details and patterns in nature, her interest and passion for sculpture is transparent in her jewellery designs, Sarah's jewellery is interesting and powerful in terms of  shapes and details that what made me chose her as an inspiration. Sarah Straussberg can be found on love dazzle and her wedsite Sarah Straussberg






Sarah Straussberg

ring

made in Gold

  

 

 

 

 

Sarah Straussberg

ring

made in Gold

 

 

 

Sarah Straussberg

pendant

made in Gold