Jewellery Diaries No1. Seaside stroll 6-3-11

Jewellery Diary ...
6th March... mom's birthday, stroll on the beach that ends up in 3 recycled jewellery pieces (and a new home for mr ape man)

Tharos beach, Sardegna

collecting...

...plastic little bits

creating a scene... palm tree island

mr ape man.. the only habitant of the island

earrings made of plastic bits

necklace

clasp

bracelet

The first post of the project "jewellery diaries"
Making gems that remind you of a special day.
These are things collected on the 6th of March after a seaside stroll on Tharos beach in Sardegna. Too much plastic on the beach and as colourful as it may be... better collect and reuse it.
Each item is individually hand pierced and composed into a bracelet, earrings and a necklace



and a soundtrack to go with it... I'm high and I'm happy and I'm free

Buttons and Polaroids

I'm better at buttoning earring
than polaroiding but who cares? Anyway Polaroids arelike little precious gems... each one is unique, on off, beutiful just because it exists and expensive !

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Happy Birthday Mr Face.... It's alive

Mr Face alive and kicking

The original sketch by Henry Moore

My sketchbook on this study

details


creating a figure with wool and pensil


sketch of the first MR Face
MR Face No 1 as an earring with leather, wire and fabrics

other test pieces in mixed media

Sketching eyes eyes eyes eyes and spider eyes

sketching faces

a sketch before a test piece


a larger test piece in copper and silver



The original sketch of MR gentleman face and how it finally came out



I know I've promised you buttons and I have been making some superdelicious earrings with fabric buttons but in the meantime something else happened.
This frankenstein silver FACE came alive after alsmost a year of adding, cutting, gluing, sketching!! It's the first proper gem of the Face Collection and it eserves a happy birthday!

this collection started while I was deconstructing and reconstructing a colourful design by Henry Moore in my sketchbook. I loved the fact that a few lines gave the hint of a face, a breast, a leg, a body.

focussing on the face I did some test pieces with fabric and wire. I love the eyes! they pop out and twist around and fly over the ears!

then I went on drawing more and more of these faces and eyes.
I really wanted to finish this brooach in silver for my boyfriends jacket. In terms of style I tried to make it clean and refined as a finish.
Check these brooaches out from my very favorite jewellery artist Wendy Ramshaw to get the idea

This is officialy MR. Face... made with recycled silver and of course looooove. He is a brooch and a perfect gentleman!