I have started the comb for the vanity set. It is not complete yet. I still need too resolve the design for it.
Here as some pictures all the same though.
This is drawing up the comb design on the metal. I have drilled the holes in the metal where I am going to cut out the design.
This is the cut out design on the comb.
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..
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Last year as a project I had in mind to create a modern day vanity set. Complete with brush, comb and mirror. It all related back to creating connections with my mother and grandmothers through these iconic feminine objects. The notions of beauty and ritual were thrown around and were the basis of the design.
What I was attempting to do the first time round, was to create the modern day vanity set, for the modern day woman! So it was designed to be compact and functional. Yet this was not achieved. The images that are with this post are what I ended up with. I was really disappointed and frustrated with myself for not being able to complete these objects to what I had initially imagined.
It has been something I am always thinking about. So here we go again.. This time – I don’t think it is important to totally disregard the traditional and antique aspects of the objects. I won’t let you know exactly what my plans are, but I will continue to update the blog with images of my progress. Wish me luck. K.
This image is of my first attempt to make my own brush. I drilled all the holes in the acrylic and painstakingly each any every bristle was put in by hand.
This is the complete brush, which I will be recycling into the newer version of the vanity set. To be truly functional I think the bristles would need to be cut shorter but everyone who has felt the brush says it is so tactile, it would be terrible if I cut them short. What do you think?
This is the comb – it was never fully complete, as the others weren’t either.
