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Summer Pajamas
"Petit Fleur"...small
flowers on turquoise with black and red accents
"Ivory and
Smoke"...with cone shaped pendants, aquamarine rondelles, sweet water
pearls and quartz chips.
"So L.A." Coral
geometric shapes, fine silver and Watermelon Quartz
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This is an anticlastic bracelet (click on the picture for a larger view) which is
made from Mokume Gane (fine silver and copper) with two 13 mm white cultured
pearls.
[For those of you interested: Mokume Gane in
Japanese means wood grain. Mokume Gane is a Japanese metal smithing technique, where several
layers of different metals (here 10 layers of 18 gauge silver and 11 layers of
copper are fused together into an inch or so high billet) The billet is then hot
forged to a thickness of about 5 mm, when it is patterned with chisels and drill bits. Then flattened even more through a rolling mill, to about 18 gauge
sheet metal. When it is flattened (after patterning) the different (now ultra thin) layers of metal are exposed and distorted thus the patterning showing
up in black and silver.
The black areas are copper exposed, and the white
areas are fine silver. The bracelet was patinaed with liver of sulphur, which
turns copper black, and leaves fine silver unchanged.
"anticlastic" is a
metal smithing technique where the metal has two axis' going in different
directions, by comparison, a bowl is 'synclastic' in shape.]
(and in case
you wonder: Yes, I made the Mokume Gane myself!)
I also made matching
earrings, and if I get those photographed, I'll post them later
Three cast pieces, all in
sterling silver; a brooch, from multiple wax models, a pill box with a set
moonstone and a ring, from carved wax.
"Ode to an Oak"
Necklace of organic cast twigs and acorn caps, glass beads and fabricated
copper leaves.
Hair Sticks, cold forged copper
and glass beads.
Two views of a bracelet made with
mostly Pastel Pea Green and Ink Blue
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