College vs Jewellery

Hello Darklings... If anyone still reads this since I haven't actually written anything since last Halloween I believe, the reason for this is I'm now in college again, this time doing contemporary art practise, HND. This has taken up almost all of my time, so there is very little time for me to fit in any jewellery making, even my plans for a YouTube tutorial channel has been scuppered, however the art course finishes in August this year, so I'm counting down the months! 

So now to the jewellery, I have been able to make two pieces of jewellery which is frustrating, because I'm so use to making jewellery in vast quantities! Even though I haven't made any jewellery in a while I don't think I've lost my touch! I won't be able to give an in depth description as again college work is taking up most of my time, which is also why this blog is so short unfortunately, However I hope you enjoy it anyway!

Sparkly Bat Wing Pendant

So here is a quick run down of this pendant, it's made from polymer clay and every part of it was hand sculpted, the beautiful glass bead was pressed into the clay before the clay was cured/hardened and the beautiful purple mica powder was dusted over the clay before it was cured. After being cured/hardened I applied a glaze to give the pendant a lovely sheen. 

 

Boho Style Earrings

I must admit I am a fan of the boho style and because of this I decided to make some boho earrings, the beads around the bottom of the hoop were wrapped into place with silver wire, the beautiful blue flower ( which is made from polymer clay was bought I did not make it) was also wire wrapped onto the silver hoop. Wire wrapped jewellery can be very simple to make especially a simple design such as these earrings. 

Well I hope you enjoyed this short little blog, you can leave a comment below if you have any questions. Keep it spooky Darklings! 

  

For The Love Of Halloween

Hello Darklings! It's been a while since I last uploaded a blog, the reason for this is because I'm back at college. This time I will be doing the HNC in Contemporary Art Practice. 

Now you guys know I'm a spooky kinda ghoul by nature, I'm already excited that Halloween is just around the corner! There are probably some out there thinking it's still ages away, and don't see the reason to get excited. To them, I simply say:

Anyhow back to the jewellery aspect of this blog! Now to get in the Halloween mood I have made some spooky jewellery ready for All Hallows eve, now these are just a taster of what's to come. I will, as usual, be posting my Halloween blog on the 31st of October and will discuss how the jewellery was made and give some tips on how to make them, but for now I will leave you with some photographs of the items I have made over the past two days. I hope you enjoy! 

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Photo Gallery

Hello Darklings! This weeks blog isn't really a blog, more a photo gallery of my most recent work. The reason I've decided on a photo gallery is because it took me a while to edit these photographs. So I hope you can just appreciate it for what it is a beautiful gallery 

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Bat Wing Pendant

Hello Darklings I haven't posted anything in a little while because my camera had broken so I couldn't take any photographs of any of my new jewellery. I couldn't even take photographs of my fun day at the Culloden Battlefield craft fair!

It was an amazing day as so many people were captivated by my jewellery, which I have to admit was a great feeling. Even better was that most of these people were not of an alternative persuasion!

This is one of the pendants that was sold at the craft fair and the fact that I would not replicate this pendant made the buyer want it even more so that she had something that was unique just for her. 

Bat Wing Pendant

So while I was awaiting my camera to be fixed I was making quite a fair bit of jewellery, mostly earrings as I have to re-stock my polymer clay. I enjoy sculpting jewellery with my hands and when I don't have any materials to sculpt jewellery I feel quite lost! 

Before I ran out of polymer clay though I did make this bat wing pendant, at first I thought it may make quite a cool single earring, but it is quite a sizeable piece of jewellery and I have to remember not everyone likes big bold jewellery! So I decided to make it a  pendant hence why it has a silver wire decoration. This also acts as the bail for the pendant. 

The iridescent colours inside of the bat wing were achieved by using mica powders, these are great when working with polymer clay. Any chance I get to use them I will! To keep the colours looking fresh I coat the polymer clay pendant in a glaze of resin. This also adds strength to my

jewellery especially when there are very delicate decals on my jewellery and this just makes the polymer clay jewellery last longer.  

I haven't put a glaze on this pendant yet as I have other projects I'm working on as well, which I will post soon.   

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Textured Artistic Pendants

Hello Darklings as promised I have been busy making jewellery now that my work at college is done, Finally! 

So I have been playing around with textures in these pendants and I had so much fun trying out new textures and different shapes. I have also tried different styles and approaches to making new jewellery. 

These new pendants are quite simple in design but even though they may look it, these pendants certainly aren't easy to make! One finger print or even just handling the clay in the wrong way and the textured design will be ruined meaning it will have to be texturised again. 

Even when placing one shape on top of the other care must be taken not to smudge the textured surface or distort the shape of the pendant. 

The lovely shimmery and jewel like colours on the polymer clay is mica powders and I love mica powders as they just make the polymer clay just look so much more beautiful :)

Textured Leaf Pendant 

Textured Rectangle Pendant 

Textured Coffin Pendants

Textured Vine Pendant

Nearing The End Of College And New Jewellery

Hello Darklings it's been a while since I've written anything on here, but due to a busy year at college my time has been taken up by studies.

Anyway enough about college, so I'm excited about making new jewellery I have new designs I want to try out and different materials I want to incorporate into my jewellery. So keep an eye out for new designs during the summer months.

I have made two new pendants from polymer clay and dichroic glass, I have use these two materials in my jewellery before because I just love polymer clay and this glass they just go together like strawberries and cream!

Polymer Clay Gothic Flower Pendant

Everything was handmade on this pendant, except the silver mount and dichroic glass. Each tiny purple leaf was handmade and delicately put around the glass. When I say delicate work I mean sweating bullets delicate work!  It was the was the same delicate work with the black swirls of polymer clay around the dichroic  glass. 

Fairy Tale Garden Pendant

This pendant was made in the same way as the pendant above. This pendant as you probably guessed from the title of the pendant was inspired by fairy tales and fairy gardens. It looks very delicate but it's quite a substantial pendant. These will be put onto ribbons and if you happen be in Inverness or live in Inverness then you can see Haunted Moon Jewellery at Culloden Battlefield on the 25th to the 26th of june! So if you fancy popping along give us a visit the name will be on the gazebo! 

Location Drawing

Hello Darklings! Now as you know I've been studying art at Inverness College and I thought I'd share some of my work with you guys. 

I know it's not jewellery but in the meantime I thought I'd just share some of my work because I haven't posted anything for months.  Each one will have a title and a wee description of what mediums I used and where the location was.  

Culloden Battlefield 

This is a painting of the little historical cottage that is situated at Culloden Battlefield. I decided to paint this little cottage because the location is just so beautiful and the cottage itself is just amazing to see. The cottage itself was most likely built

around the early 1800s. The cottage was built using local stone and turf. At the time of the battle at Culloden this little cottage was most likely used as a field hospital for injured and sick soldiers. 

It was definitely the history behind this part of Culloden that made me want to paint it. I have always loved this little cottage so much so that some of my wedding photographs where taken at this location. 

With this painting I used a mix of pencil drawing and watercolour paints just to add some colour.

The Loch

This is a painting of the loch that connects to the Moray Firth in the Highlands. I love this part of Inverness especially during the summer as the sunsets over the hills are just so beautiful. 

This painting was done by using a mix of ink and watercolour. 

The View From The Window

This painting was, well the view from my window. This painting is not my favourite as personally I'm not a fan of drawing or painting modern buildings. I prefer cottages and churches as they

have more character. Unfortunately I wasn't able to go out and about on this certain day so just painted what was out my window and there's not much more to say about this particular painting.

This painting was done in watercolour.  

Railway Tracks

This painting is of the railway tracks that go through Culloden woods and in the mornings it tends to be rather misty in the background. I really love this part of Culloden woods as it's just so pretty and tranquil, until a train comes rumbling by!     

This painting was also done using ink and watercolour.

Snowy Landscape

This painting started out as a pencil drawing as I was on my way down to Glasgow when I drew it. Me and the hubby stopped off just so I could get a quick rough sketch of the landscape. I never took my water colours with me so I painted it when I came home from well deserved night of  heavy metal! 

I believe this landscape is part of the Cairngorm National Park in the highlands. The landscape here is just breath taking and I love going past it when on car journeys when going to either Glasgow or Edinburgh 

I hope you guys enjoyed this little section on my artwork that I'm doing for college and the next blog shall be sometime in march with new pieces of jewellery! 

Keep It Spooky Children Of The Night!