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, 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: Gold + Silver | Tags: acrylic, bristle, brush, comb, design, feminine, gold and silver, grandmother, guilding metal, handmade, mirror, modern, mother, soldering, vanity set
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.
