Friday, September 18, 2009

EMJC-PR6.4 - "The customater"


EMJC-PR6.4
Originally uploaded by bcyrjewelry
If you saw the post from yesterday, you got a bit of a hint of what I was supposed to be working on for my challenge this week. I was given: Ring, Aluminum, Victorian/Byzantine.

Part of my goal has been to create pieces that all work together and still look like me. When doing a little research on victorian or byzantine jewelry, I thought that my organic vine collection might work fine as 'Victorian" with the lacy and tendril-y look.

For the aluminum - we had been talking about how to treat the metal underneath clear stones and one suggestion was aluminum foil. I thought the textured effect of tightly crinkled foil would give an extra dimension to the ring. I was really happy with the effect.

I did two different photos since the one on the right focuses more on the texture underneath the moonstone (which happened to be the only stone I had that was clear enough to see the aluminum foil through!) You can see more photos on flickr.

I kind of feel like it was a little clumsy on execution (if I have to critique myself) Its kind of like a good design coming down the runway, but the hem isn't finished. Overall though I'm pretty happy with it and can see opportunities for the techniques I used in this ring. And THAT makes me really happy.

Make sure to check out the etsymetal blog later today for all the other entries. You will be blown away.

4 comments:

NinaGibsonDesigns said...

I think it's a wonderful ring. I love the reflective quality - very icy!

Haley said...

I love the way this ring looks! So delicate. Maybe the foil looks different in person, but from here it looks just great.

Jenn said...

I super-duper love the outcome of this challenge! (KerinRose blog reader...she pointed me to your blog and now I'm following!)

Beth Cyr said...

thanks ladies!

the foil did turn out well - I'm not as happy w/ the overall setting. Since I give myself a time limit for these challenges, I just had to 'make it work'! but I think if I did it again, I could do it better :)