I first started by producing drawings for my forms and nature research with different media before I decided on how I would do my panel and box.

This is my final design of my panel inspired by chasing and repousse technique. I first drew on the paper before I pierced holes with a needle before I used thread to draw some parts/

Scoring and folding Box

These Figures below are the final design of my box starting from the small images right through to the large side. I started by drawing out the layout that I wanted for the box which was square with a lid at 12×8 cm. I took the skeleton poppy head and the flowers throughout my designs with vines throwing through the pattern. I started off small and as soon as you go around the box, the drawings go bigger. I drew tabs on the box and lid then stuck on with double sided tape which worked better than the thread. I used a needle to poke the holes then stuck on dark grey card behind the pattern to make the dots stand out. The lid has dark grey card attached to the watercolour card as the box lid while the white watercolour card is made so the edges hang over the sides of the box so that the patterns flow through. I used a thick watercolour card to make the box sturdy.

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These are some examples of my different variations and techniques of eco patination that I have done through week 11.

I first started my research on forms and nature by producing a variety of different drawings of leaves, poppy seeds, skeletal poppy seed heads and flowers in a variety of different media to see what is best for my panel and chasing and repousse box. I  took these for inspiration and designed a range of jewellery variations that could be used for my piece of jewellery or medal out of wax. The images in this post shows my drawings in different media, designs for my wax piece and my final wax piece. I used, ink, pens, pencils, needle and thread, carbon paper, needle to poke holes and draw in the paper, pastel shavings pressed into holes, paper to cut out shapes and coloured card for backgrond.

Wax Medal

These are the designs for my wax carving of a piece of jewellery along with my final piece of a medal which is poppy seed pods made out of blue wax and leaves out of pink wax sheet.

The poppy seed pod is made with blue wax which i pierced out the shape using a saw and smoothed the edges then i used my wax burnisher then used the wax tools to shaped out the dip in the wax. The pink leaf wax has been cut out then used a wax tool for the pattern. I stuck them on with the red wax. This is my medal piece.

I started with my research on the Art Nouveau and the Arts and crafts movement.  The distinguished characteristics of of Art Nouveau is the unique decorative characteristic of Art Nouveau is its undulating irregular line, often taking the form of flower stalks and buds, vine tendrils, insect wings, and other gentle and sinuous natural objects. The lines may be sophisticated and elegant or infused with a strongly rhythmic and whiplike strength. It works most frequently in architecture, interior design, jewellery, glass design, posters and illustrations. It was attempted deliberately to create a new style which would be free of historicism that has dominated the 19th Century art and design.

Edward Lear, 1902.
He drew this illustration for one his limericks: “There was an Old Man in a tree/Who was horribly bored by a Bee/When they said, ‘Does it buzz?’/He replied, ‘Yes, it does!’/‘It’s a regular brute of a Bee!’”

Ernest Haeckel Mushroom Toadstool Biology 1899-1904

Ernst Haeckel, 1899-1904
The otherworldly beauty of Jellyfish
“Nature generates an inexhaustible cornucopia of wonderful forms, the beauty and variety of which far exceed the crafted art forms produced by human beings.”- Ernst Haeckel

The characteristics of the Arts and Crafts movement are a belief in craftsmanship which stresses the inherent beauty of the material, the importance of nature as inspiration, and the value of simplicity, utility, and beauty. The movement often promoted reform as part of its philosophy and advanced the idea of the designer as craftsman. William Morris believed people should be surrounded by beautiful, well-made things. This vision inspired the emergence of the Arts and Crafts movement in the 1860s. Morris’s lectures and essays on art and his rediscovery of traditional craft techniques helped spread the movement, as did the decorative designs and products from his company: Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.

He was the most important ceramic artist and classed as one of the most important pioneers of the Arts & Crafts movement.. His achievements in the world of design varied from stained glass to furniture painting, but he is probably most celebrated for the glorious Persian, Iznik, and figurial designs which he recreated onto tiles and ceramics.William De Morgan “Mongolian” Motif

Pencil and watercolour sketch for wallpaper designWilliam Morris, ”Trellis” wallpaper 1862

Nora Rochel’s work is heavily influenced by flowers, roots, seeds and herbs which she reimagines through incredible silver and gold jewelllery. She explores the cycle of life through botanical forms, from seed to decay, in a uniform way so that each piece is recognisably hers. She captures the ethereal and healing nature of plants in distinctive designs that appear to belong to folk fairy tales and yet have a strong contemporary feel.

Elsa Tierney is a UK based jeweller specializing in wax carving. A practice used for both jewellery making and sculpture and based on an ancient process called Lost Wax Casting. She likes to explore different avenues of working with wax, giving an alternative approach to jewellery making that encompasses her passion for fine art and sculpture. Inspired by jewellery, sculpture and artifacts Elsa’s designs have a quality reminiscent of lost treasures.

Rebecca Stevenson is a British artist whose specialism is wax, an ancient sculptural medium. The history of wax is extensive, from the lost wax processes used in bronze sculpture dating back to the Egyptians in antiquity. The sweet and the sinister commingle in her wax sculptures that depict humans and animals bursting open to reveal flowers and fruits. Classical busts and seemingly deceased animals are surrounded by ribboning cascades of plants. To create her sculptures, Stevenson starts by modeling the animal or figure in clay, and then moulds and casts the model with layered resin and wax. Stevenson then cuts open and reworks the sculpture, a process both surgical and artistic, as she decides which elements to dis- or re-figure, and which to leave alone.The wax sculptures of Rebecca Stevenson reference both Dutch still-life painting and the creatures and themes of myth. Her recent work continues to investigate themes of life, death, and nature.

I researched silversmiths that have used scoring and folding in their work for the second part of my forms and facet research. I was creating two vessels which will be a vase and candle holder. I was using the rail revolve command to design the vase and surface commands to design the candleholder. I enjoyed designing these then using the unroll command to see what it would look like to trace onto metal for scoring and folding.

This is my first design that I made out of paper with my unroll that I had done earlier. I went up the town to get the sheets into A3 as I didn’t have access  to at home. I used the scalpel and ruler to cut out the shapes then i folded along the lines using a ruler which i then cut out holes for where the candles would go. It is held together with glue and tabs that i desighed using the surface command in CAD. This is a diamond shape from my research.

This is my second design that I made using the unroll command to make this vase out of paper which is more complex than the candle holder. I used the rail command to design the 3D vase. If i had access to tools and the money to buy sheets of metal which I could have made the vase out of. I really enjoyed this project

This is the final product of my 3 vessels that will be made out of metal. I really enjoy rendering my designs as you can basically apply any materials that you like so that you can see what my vessel will look like as silverware. I designed the flowers myself using different commands e.g. bend, surface, rotate and extrude surfaces. I made the stem using the revolve command then made the green leaves using the symmetrical bend command.My Vessels are different shape vases for the flowers. I used Boolean difference to make the circle holes in the vases where the flowers can be positioned. I love how colourful the render has become. I could have made the table a different material so that the silver vases would stand out more and used less lighting. I had to change the colours of the flowers because when I used the flower material in the library as the petals on the flowers looked blurry and not like the red tulips that it was supposed to be and it was taking ages to render even when I change the resolution as shown in the image below.

This is the technical drawing for my final vases that I have rendered above. I used the Make 2D command first then used the aligned dimensions to see what the size of the vessels would be in silver.

She graduated from the Glasgow School of art in 2018 where she then went to Bishopsland Educational Trust. It was there that she developed her ideas which she could explore on how to work with gold and silver.  Her Assortments of silverware and jewellery is motivated by the three Forth Bridges that are soaring over the Firth of Forth in Scotland. They have been interpreted into pieces that will be dazzling the alteration of the forms as you travel across them which will then create asymmetrical shapes. She captures these forms in photographs which will then be developed into three-dimensional card models. She produces them to life by scoring and folding the metal to create hard angles. To reproduce the concrete which is used in the structure by using the technique called etching.