5/3/13

3:1
Bad day!

+Home early
+2 hour nap
+

-No motivation!

Can't think of a third positive! Bad day!!

3:1 Ratio

My Mum has just told me the most amazing thing to go by every day…

3 positive things 
and 1 negative..

+ laughed a lot

+ had nice lunch 

+ decided on my final ring design

- in Uni until 8:30pm.

I’m going to try to do this every day!!

Rings

For the next project in ART 300 with Heather Bayliss, we will be creating a simple Silver ring and setting a stone on it. Which is what I've been working on, whilst my forging piece has been in the pickle.

Inspiration

From a pen. Who would have thought? Some All Purpose glue that has leaked and dried on this pen, has created an amazing texture, shape, colour and formed around the pen in amazing way. This may be something I can work on for my independent project!

Glasses

Tiny bit more done on my glasses today, this project is really making me work hard, forging is quite a simple technique but making it look perfect is the hard part, and annealing the metal in between is making the whole thing take a little longer, but hopefully it will be worth it in the end.

I've also realised after forging this piece for hours, that it won't fit around everyone's head because of the material I am using, and so I have had to re-shape the way it sits on the head.

But I'm almost done and getting happier with the result!

Messy Welsh student's studio..

Forging

Forging is a process involved in shaping metals using hammers and anvils, also annealing in between to ensure the metal is soft enough to work with.

I will be using this technique to shape the wire of my glasses around the head and to shape and fit on the ears and under the eyes.