Handmade resin stone mounted in silver and 9ct gold (6cm x 3.5cm), silver chain (90cm) with 9ct gold handmade findings.
I've been working on a pendant commission from a lovely gentleman for his sister's birthday.
We went through my collection of work and the customer picked out elements he liked from several pieces - designs, colours, styles and detailing. The recipients height, skin and hair colour were discussed and we also had a look through Facebook albums at photographs.
The customer particularly liked my latest collection of work which is inspired by Victorian ironwork from the now demolished Smithfield's Market - (for the blog post on the inspiration behind this body of work, please see the
Collecting History tagged posts
here). A pendant and chain was decided on and a stone selected from a range of rough sanded fishing net stones. Below is a series of images which show the piece being made.
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Assorted handmade resin stones - fishing net design
Stone selected - bottom left hand corner |
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| Stone polished up - on top of the image which inspired the colours and opacity |
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| Ironwork - Smithfields Victorian Market building - NW Film Archive footage |
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| Stone overlayed a drawing of the ironwork roof within Smithfields Market building |
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| The customer selected an area within the drawings I had done of the ironwork |
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| Silver pendant mount and tracing of ironwork design |
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| Piercing out the design out of the back of the silver mount |
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| Finished silver mount with 9ct gold bayonet and platinol applied inside |
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Jane Dzisiewski
Handmade resin stone mounted in silver and 9ct gold |
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| Handmade 9ct gold finding |
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Jane Dzisiewski
Finished piece lit from behind to showing the opacity of the stone |
This piece is now parceled up and on its way to the recipient although I won't be able to relax until I know she has received it and most important of all, likes it! Digits crossed.
