RHINO WEEKEND!!!

This weekend we were fortunate enough to have Nicole Jacquard come to Buff State. She lectured on her work, as well as taught us the CAD program. I have currently enrolled in the CAD class so I feel like I had an advantage to this. We made a ring, a pendant and a coaster. My ring was printed too large. I typed in the circumference in the radius line. I am however reprinting it tonight.


For the coasters, we used ZEdit. We were able to place an image onto the coaster with ZEdit. Nicole will mail those to us within a week or so.

The workshop was a nice break from the regular studio schedule. I learned some shortcuts as well as some new information. I hope everyone who attended enjoyed it as much as I did.

Tiara progress

My tiara is based on the elephant man. I have sunken the larger pieces and made the smaller ones on the dapper block. I then soldered the pieces together. I believe there are 22 pieces soldered together. I still have to apply the patina. I want to make the pieces highly crusty and dark. I am going to use liver of sulfur along with another patina to get the desired affect. I am happy with this piece.

conjoined piece progress

I am slowly but surely finishing up my kinetic piece. I have started to clean up the hollow forms. I want to finish that before I solder on the final pieces of wire!

I AM SO CLOSE! ....not really.

Beginning of hollow form....

This is the outer piece to my hollow forms. In essence, they are shackles for your feet!

kinetic adornment brainstorming

I took photos of my feet to see how I want them held together by my piece. Here are the photos. just quick snapshots.

sideshow freaks

Sideshow Freaks is my theme for the semester.

these are some of the main acts from the Barnum Freakshow.

For my first project I am creating a piece for your toes. I want to create something similar to a Chinese Finger Trap, but to wear on your toes. That way, you body will be connected and it will force you to stand awkwardly. I am still in the process of sketching, so I have not figured out the mechanisms yet. That is first on my list of things to do.

New Semester...New Ideas....or so I can only hope...

I took the entire winter break to relax. I slept most of it away knowing as soon as the Spring semester started I would barely get any sleep....

Project One: Kinetic Adornment

I came across a designer, Michael Berger. Yep, I love his work. Here is his site. There is a fantastic video that everyone should watch!

http://rezalutions.com/rings-that-rock-and-roll-kinetic-jewelry-by-michael-berger/

Another artist is Thérèse de Villiers.


Right now I am brainstorming what my topic should be. I wanted to do insects again, however now I have skin growths and gross things on my mind. Maybe my topic should be gross..or phobias.


MUST BRAINSTORM!