Filed under: Assignments, Gold + Silver, Music - final semester | Tags: 20th century, acetate, Bach, bangle, baroque, bars, beats, Beethoven, Chopin, classical, composers, Debussy, Gershwin, impressionist, key, keyboard, mock ups, piano, romantic, visually, workshop
I haven’t posted much on my workshop assignment. I took some photos today of the mock ups I have been making in relation to the piano and pieces from the 5 different composers I have chosen.
As a refresher, I am doing a piece from 5 composers from the
Baroque – Bach
Classical - Beethoven
Romantic – Chopin
Impressionist – Debussy
20th Century – Gershwin
What I am trying to visually explore with these mock ups is the keyboard/piano instrument and ways that I can show the piece of music and it’s relation to the piano/keyboard.
This was the first mock up. Simply a piece of music wrapped around to create a bangle. I am looking at printing the music onto acetate and then winding it up, so you get that layered effect.
These are two types of bangle mock ups. The first has 52 parts, and the second has 88 parts.
This image is just making marks on the keys. I read a piece of music and mark which key is played. When finished it would show how many times a key was touched.
This design is based more on beats and bars. It is more complex and when translated into a full piece of music it will be very long. I think it looks really nice on.
These are four other mock ups that I am working on.
Filed under: Assignments, Gold + Silver, Music - final semester | Tags: keyboard, major 6, music, sheet music, solid, sound
I have been home and picked up my keyboard and all the sheet music I am using for my Major 6 project.
So, if time permits, I want to learn the pieces that are the basis for each set of pieces for this semester.
After discussing my ideas with my music teaching mother, I now think I have a better grasp on my own ideas and where they are headed and why. The all important WHY?
I think, but I am not sure – What I am attempting to do is turn sound into a solid. Why? Because I can.
Filed under: Assignments, Clothing/Fashion, Exhibitions, Gold + Silver | Tags: accessories, crowned and bound, Department of the Exterior, facebook, fashion show, gallery, Gold and Silversmithing Workshop, makeup, parade, School of Art
A reminder about the Fashion show on the 1st of September, starts at 7pm at the School of Art Gallery. Visit this link to the facebook page for the parade.
Sarah Carlson’s Umbrellas
You will get a chance to see upcoming fashion ranges from the Department of the Exterior and the coolest of the cool accessories from all the cool kids in the Gold and Silversmithing workshop.
Oh and the master of make up Mr Andrew Canon, come on down!
Saw a quick run through tonight of the clothing and the accessories all together! Looks great and is going to be a great night.
Be there or be square!
Filed under: Assignments, Gold + Silver, Tagged Series | Tags: nozzles, toggles
So, I got the inserts of the toggles back today! And some rather large nozzles.
Which do you prefer the little nozzles with the red dots or the over-sized (good looking hair) nozzles? Let me know.
K.
Filed under: Assignments, Gold + Silver, vanity set | Tags: comb, emery, flat bed, mechanism, pocket watch, silver plating, swivel, vanity set
I finished this cut out yesterday I think – all the days are merging into one long day..
So the image above just shows what the back of the piece will look like. I was wanting to get them silver plated before asessment but it is just not going to happen. One of the girls in class today said when you estimate how long it is going to take to make something, you double it and then double it again. That is quite right in my case.
Here in these images I was trying to get an idea of what different types of hanging mechanisms would look like. I am moving more towards the pocket watch swivel in the lower image.
This image was taken at approx 12:30am by my partner in crime. This is after probably 3 days of rubbing on emery paper on the flat bed to get it perfect, but nay it still is not. I have also rubbed my palms raw.
I am very please with the way this piece is heading..
Onward to the comb..
Filed under: Assignments, Gold + Silver, vanity set | Tags: brush, pendant, silver plated, vanity set
Here are some more images of the vanity set in motion.
It is slowly coming together – fingers crossed, I can get the brush pendant finished tomorrow and then maybe maybe maybe, send it to be silver plated before asessment.
This is just to show you the two box parts that make up the brush pendant. The smaller box fits snuggly into the larger and that is how it is all held together. I was dreading making another box but it actually wasn’t as bad as I thought.
And altogether now. It is not finished yet but it gives an idea of what it is suppose to look like.
Filed under: Assignments, Gold + Silver, vanity set | Tags: art deco, box, circles, colour, design, eye wash shower thingy-majig, femininity, geometric, geometry, guilding metal, inspired, material, motif, pattern, saw pierce, silver plated, soldered, style, symmetry
It is past twelve and I left uni about an hour ago. It’s been a very long day, not to mention trying to guilding metal leaf my eye balls (don’t worry fellow workshopers, I used the eye wash shower thingy-majig – Refreshing!)
I am extremely tired but I am going to post some images even if it kills me, so you’d better look at them.
This is after I soldered the box together. It is very dirty I know – once these are complete I am getting them silver plated. Well, that is the plan. I would love for them to be plated and complete for asessment, that would make me very happy.
This is the brush inside the box after I had filed all the edges smooth. You can see on the straight side, the wall is not straight through the differences in colour. That is where I have filed but the material is dinted – so that is something I need to fix.
This is the motif I have designed to use and saw pierce for the back plate that close the boxes. It is art deco inspired, with the symmetry and pattern. I think using the circles makes it more delicate and feminine, relating it back to the original objects that inspired me to make these pieces. Art deco is a style I am particularly fond of – and I think my own style reflects that as an influence.
K.
Filed under: Assignments, Exhibitions, Gold + Silver, Tagged Series | Tags: advertising, anodising, colours, drill, eleventimestwenty, exhibition, photographed, products, promotion, series, tagged, toggles
Here is a preview of the complete tagged series. This is just a quick made up version I did to be photographed for all our advertising and promotion for the eleventimestwenty exhibition.
I will be anodising again soon when I get the insides of the toggles so I can drill the outter layers. So you will see some new colours soon.. Hopefully.
Hope you enoy, and can’t wait to see the finished products.
Filed under: Assignments, Gold + Silver, vanity set | Tags: boxes, brush, design, guilding metal, mirror, shape, soldering, vanity set
I’ve started making the boxes that the brush and mirror will be in. Here is a few photos of the process.
You will see in the pictures me using the image in the previous post to match up the shape to the design.
In this picture you can see that I have been bending and soldering the quilding metal to match the design.
This is the complete shape which will then be soldered to a base.
This is the guilding metal base that I will place the above piece onto and then solder it on to make the box.
Hope you like these. K.
Filed under: Assignments, Gold + Silver, vanity set | Tags: design, form z, grid, material, measurements, vanity set
I am at uni right now working on the outline for the vanity set. I need to make sure the outline is exactly the measurements I need it to be – as I will be working from this basic design. For example checking that the material thickness of the walls are fitting perfectly on the net.
I am working on the computer program Form Z. It provides me with a grid where I can draw the outline to exact measurements. I can also put in the material allowances.
This image looks complicated – the basic shape is actually the rectangle with the round ends. I more then likely have gone the most complicated way to get to this design on Form Z, but it makes sense to me and it is working great.
The purple to black outline shows the material thickness.
