More rings

by lynneglazzard on January 27, 2010

Three rings in three consecutive days.  I began with the opals that have been lying in a box in my workbench for a few years.  I bought the opal in matrix at a trade fair about 5 years ago and decided to pair it with a small opal triplet which was in the same box.  Then I realised I had become interested in the bezel settings again.  I used to make bezel settings all the time but haven’t done this for a while either.  The teardrop textured piece of the second ring is made in art clay silver and was in a box of bits on my bench.  I made it when I was showing a student how to make a mould.  It was from a plastic button.  The round bezel is then filled with resin and gold leaf.  The third ring I have used another bit of art clay silver that was lying in my bits box and made this double bezel.  In the shallow one I have used tinted resin and in the larger deeper bezel I have used clear resin and tiny chopped up bits of red thread.  I am really enjoying making bezels so will have to do some more soon.

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Ugthorpe hoard

by lynneglazzard on January 27, 2010

Today I have been to a brilliant talk at the museum by Roger Dalladay.  He talked about the Ugthorpe hoard; a collection of coins found some time ago and eventually acquired by the museum.  He began by explaining a bit about the Roman monetary system.  He then showed pictures of the coins together with pictures of statue heads of the Emperors and explained the imagery in a really clear and entertaining way, putting all the Roman Emperors into context.  It was a thoroughly enjoyable talk and I will have to have a closer look at some of those coins now!

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Does it have to be precious?

January 22, 2010

Here is a ring made today from a disposable plastic fork.  Obviously in forming it I have broken off a couple of the tines of the fork and made the whole thing quite weak in places and liable to crack…… not really wearable.  Is it jewellery?

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That big faux bone ring

January 22, 2010

Here is another view of one of the rings I posted yesterday.  I don’t really like the finished thing but it has been  an interesting exercise in working out how to construct and assemble it.  First I roughly cut the circle in the faux bone.  I then measured it on a ring mandrel and used […]

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What is jewellery?

January 21, 2010

I am in the process of trying to put some ideas together for a jewellery exhibition at Whitby Museum and find myself asking ‘what is jewellery?’

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More experiments in ring making

January 21, 2010

I have spent the past few days experimenting with rings in a variety of materials.  Here are a selection of the finished rings.  The top left hand ring is resin with little pieces of cut thread embedded into it.  The top right hand ring is faux bone, art clay silver and alcohol inks. The bottom […]

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Today’s ring

January 13, 2010

I was planning to go into the museum today but put it off as the weather forecast was so bad – actually turned out not to be as bad as expected, anyway, I did spend the day in the studio working on a few ideas.  Here is my Ring a day contribution for today.  This […]

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Enamel samples

January 12, 2010

Today I have been preparing enamel samples for a workshop.  It seems like ages since I did any enamelling.  I also finished a couple of pairs of earrings that have been lying around on the workbench.  One pair is the feather pattern I have drawn to make one of my photopolmer plates and is the […]

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Ring a day, day 5

January 11, 2010

Well, in theory this is a ring each day for a year!  Here is today’s offering and as you can see some days I have very little time to spare and have to really think fast, make fast from anything on hand.  I was just finishing off in the studio and suddenly remembered I hadn’t […]

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Inspired by birds, flight and travel

January 10, 2010

The ring I have made today is part of my Inspired by Heritage series of pieces.  It relates to all the early sketches I did of birds and feathers and the way in which bird motifs are used in all kinds of other objects.  I have also been thinking about the way in which birds […]

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