I’ve just finished work on my jewellery project! And I have a very big blister on my thumb to prove how much work I did on it too… The brief was to make a wire basket using natural form as our reference. The wire had to be designed around a repeating motif and for bonus marks we could attach pierced and hammered metal pieces. And here it is:
I think it has taken around 20 hours to make, with the binding of the inch and a bit square motifs taking about half of that. Each of the five metal sections took around 40 minutes to pierce using a jeweller’s saw, and the blister resulted from hand sanding them this morning. And it all started from my drawing of a hollyhock seed head in Week 1.
WOW!!!!
What an amazing work of art you have created….it’s awesome!!
Karen x
Definitely a work of art, not sure it would hold a net of oranges! Thank you for your praise 🙂
I love it. Such a beautiful piece of work and so well done. How did you get all those black coils so perfect? You have a great imagination. Thanks for sharing.
Those black coils were made from binding wire painstakingly looped through and round five times and pulled tight before the ends were clipped. Thank goodness for trash TV that I didn’t need to watch to keep up with the plot! I reckon there are 250 bindings, and I only stabbed my thumb with the wire a dozen or so times 😉
Beautiful!
amazing. I can see how much work went into the basket. Hope you get A+
This would make a wonderful garden sculpture.