Filed under: Exhibitions, Tagged Series | Tags: kemmo, spray cans, Tagged Series, toggles
Looking the part of a graff artist.. phhff
Proud Kemmo, beside all my hard work. It was a long day, but a good one. K.
Looksie.. these are the completed spray can pieces – They will be on sale at the exhibition for this production line in August. I will post more informationon this soon. If you are interested in purchasing one, let me know.
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, 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 | Tags: aluminium, anodised, anodising, caustic soda, colours, dyes, jigs, toggles
I tried out anodising for the first time today. Here are a few images.
This image, shows the toggles pieces on the jigs. They have to be tight on the jig so they do not fall off.
These are images are colour possiblities – I am still not sure what colours I will be using. You will see in the next few images the 2 I used today.
This is just an image of one part of the process. The pieces are put in caustic soda to strip and clean. You can see if you look closely the bubbles coming off the pieces.
These are the complete, dyed and sealed pieaces. When I picked the yellow, on the sample, it was quite a dirty and ugly colour. Some class mates told me to not use too much, but it actually turned out really golden. Not what I expected but a happy accident all the same.
The darker pieces are midnight blue. the colour actually looked closer to black on the sample piece but it has this really nice purple tinge to it. I wanted purple, but not bright so this again was a happy accident.
The 2 silver on the end are the plain aluminium toggles before they are anodised. I think I am going to leave 4 of these as they are, and not anodise them any colour. I like the look of them. What do you think?
K.
Filed under: anodising | Tags: aluminium, anodising, metalsmithing, toggles, wire
Tomorrow marks the day that I learn how to anodise. Anodising is the process of colouring aluminium. I am really looking forward to this – Aluminium is a reasonable cheap material to buy and use in metalsmithing, so to have this technique to colour makes it so much more interesting.
So I am to begin colouring my toggles. Today I had to strip the aluminium tubes and the wire that I am using to make the jigs for the objects.
These toggles have been beadblasted, then scotch brited. I am still deciding if I want 4 of these, as they are – utilising the aluminium colour. They look so shiney. I love them.
This is the wire that I will be using to make my jigs in the morning. It had to be stripped also, by putting it in chemicals for a certain amount of time.
More anodising images tomorrow hopefully.. stay tuned.
I thought I’d throw this image in. I really do work hard at uni, can’t you tell?
K.
Filed under: Assignments, Gold + Silver | Tags: aluminium, anodised, anodising, brainstorm, cable, catwalk, colour, colours, fashion, fun, graffiti, hip hop, hoodies, interactive, meaning, neckpieces, production line, spray can, stainless steel, toggle, toggles, urban
As I am sure you are all curious as to why I asked for responses on the questionnaire I posted. (Thanks again to all those who took the time to give me your answers – I really appreciate it and you might see some of your answers in the completed work)
This is an image of that the neck pieces will look like. They will be on stainless steel cable and I am making toggles.
This is a detail of what the pendant type charm will be like. It is suppose to resemble a spray can. So this is where the colours come in. The toggles are each made out of aluminium and they can then be anodised different colours. So to make this collection fun and interactive – each colour is going to have a meaning – so when potential buyers wish to purchase one they do not necessarily pick one because it is there favourite colour – the meaning behind the colour is what makes you pick it.
If you are wondering where the spray can comes from.. Well in a relating assignment we have to create catwalk pieces and then in response to those create a production line. My catwalk pieces are hoodies – so my inspiration for both the hoodies and the spray can pieces is the whole hippidy hop, graffiti, urban culture. I am also looking for names for the collections so feedback and ideas are always helpful. Let’s brainstorm.
There will also be a bracelet version – for the males out there. In this image there is an example of the aluminium that will be used.
Hope you like – let me know.
