I love the form of chimney pots and began sketching some of the ones I can see from my flat. Moving forward from these preliminary sketches, I did some line drawings and and added different coloured card to show possible areas of highlight and shade. I liked this concept coupled with the yellow and black colour contrast in classic cityscapes. I wanted to involve both in my final model. I began making models out of cardboard tubes and trying to make corrugated cardboard shapes.

Enamel Brooch Design 

My designs inspired by Edinburgh’s beautiful chimney pots. Although they are unassuming forms, I think they add to the well known architecture of Edinburgh and give character to the many historic tenement flats around the city.

The piece is comprised of five silver sheet cylinders with two holes drilled through either end to allow two straight brooch pins to be threaded through the entire piece.

I’ve chosen the ‘Champlevé’ enamelling technique for this piece and I would like to sand down the left hand side of each cylinder to allow for a rectangular section of yellow enamel on each ‘chimney pot’. I decided on yellow as I think it has a bold and clean contrast with silver and while in the research stage of this project, I loved the contrast of dark city skylines and yellow lights from the rooms inside. I wanted to convey this contrast while still focusing on the chimney pot form. I think the placement of the yellow works well with the overall shape of the piece as it can be seen as a bold highlight as well as its intended meaning.

The piece is 70mm tall, 85mm long and 20mm deep with each individual cylinder’s diameter being 15mm.

    I began sketching views from my window and buildings I’d seen on walks and started to construct collages based these drawings. I found it difficult to convey my drawings through collage and it’s something I’d like to try more of so I can try and get the hang of it. I tried to include thread in all my collages as I think it adds a different dynamic to the page and allows for a contrast between thick and thin line. I’m most pleased with the collage of the archway as I feel it represents the drawing better than my other pieces. I decided to pursue this drawing and collage for my final model.

 I enjoyed creating the flatlays as I think they’re a great way to work through colour scheme ideas. I also think its interesting to combine different forms in one object collage to see how different shapes can look together.