What the flux?

Here she is, on the one and only Tina Vu:

The chain has a silver granule on each end, keeping it from slipping out of the pendant.  These granules also aid in adjusting the length of the piece, which can be worn tight, like a choker or loosely.

Best lesson of the semester: Don't forget to quench your metal.  A nasty burn in the palm of your hand makes work slow. :)



Its the CLAW

This is my initial idea for the pattern/texture project.  My inspiration was from a squirrel paw.  I'm always curious about those little critters! But, ya gotta be careful not to make your work too cute.  I guess I'm pretty good at abstracting these things!

The chain will come up through the long tube at the bottom come up out of a tube at the top of the piece, go around the neck and back down through the bottom tube. I still need to figure out my catch for the chain, it's adjustable at the bottom, so I want it to flow with my design. 

This is my marriage of metals!Textured copper and silver, so fun.

Last Day of Class!!!

Right now, I am making a pendant, it will be adjustable from the front and the chain will hang down pretty far.  I'll post some pics of my progress soon.
I married copper and silver together, then textured the copper area.  It was much easier to do than I thought!
After that, I used the hydrolic dye form and domed out my largest form, silver on the sides and copper down the middle.  The piece has a nice taper to it, strong triangle shape. Almost done! Yay!!!