A Jolly Good Morning to all you lovely SSG peoples
As some of you may know I decided recently to try my hand at making some silver art, all this lovely shinyness is just so inspiring :) I kept seeing silver pretty stuff and thinking 'oooh I could make ......' add in a zillion ideas to that phrase and you got me all day long :)
So I invested what funds I had in some rudimentary equipment and a tiny bit of silver, 7 g to be exact, and proceeded to make my own pendant for a necklace.
You see I love the idea of art being functional. In the past I have designed tshirts with my art on the front , they sold well on ebay, however the equipment needed was expensive, but though I have sold paintings and many other things I have made, I loved making hats for a while, I had never worked with silver. Silver I realised, was a wonderful way of making functional art.
7g doesn't go very far..........is the first lesson I have learned :) I have also learned that you cannot go too thin..... I kind of got a little enthusiastic with the polishing, before that I had been a little too happy with the sanding, sooooooo I learned that if you make a pendant too thin and then sand and polish it to high heaven you going to break your heart.....
This design I had planned in my head for the last week or so, since I discovered it was possible for me to play with silver :) I knew I wanted a necklace, I knew I wanted a representation of me surrounded by money and love, satisfy all my feng shui needs :) so I designed and made the face, and the hearts....
I found a chain and made jump rings....
I found some tiny silver coins........
then when my pieces were fired I polished like a very obsessed polishing thing.......and made this.........
I still only have the most basic and not quite complete kit, I ran out of silver....and it's tiny.......only weighs about 5 g at most....and the broken heart was supposed to sit above the face, ........but.....it's my first pure silver 999 piece of art and I have loved every minute of creating my first tiny piece of silver art, I am happy with the result of the design , though it is not quite to what I wanted I know exactly how to get it right next time, so soon as I can I shall be getting more silver, a much bigger amount this time, and I learned I prefer to work tiny and delicate, but silver is preferred when chunky, so I have to work out how to create the designs I want and still have them translate well into a more solid model. I do love this new adventure!
i have had a most excellent day, and i hope you have an excellent day too
a quick edit to show you a little video of it but it is not the best quality, hopefully you can see the pattern on the surface of the pieces, it would show better if I antiqued it, as soon as I can I will invest in antiqueing stuff :)
sorry it's on the side !
writing and images by Velveteen 2018
