Finally Back! (with angel and demon masks)

Well that was a very long break but I’m finally back! I’ve run the gauntlet that was my design degree and have made it out the other side with my piece of paper, PHEW!

For my Major work I decided to make five masks inspired by Milton’s Paradise Lost. I’m still getting all the photos together but these are the two I took to go in the exhibition catalogue for the Graduating Exhibition at ANU. They are an angel mask made of silver plated copper (sadly as I was on a students budget at the time I couldn’t afford silver 😦 )and a demon mask made of anodized aluminium. Each one started as a flat sheet of metal which I then sculpted into shape using various hammers and punches, needless to say I had Popeye forearms by the end of it!! Anyway hope you like them! I’ll be posting the others up soon along with progress photos of the making process 🙂

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Neckpiece

Well I’ve finally got around to taking a photo of the neckpiece I designed and made earlier in the year! Here it is, hope you like it!

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Mask

Here is a mask I made a few months ago but have only just got around to taking photos of! It’s made from a flat sheet of copper that I shaped using small steel tools and a hammer. It was very enjoyable to make, a labour of love!

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Commission

Well hi again everybody! I’ve been more than a little slack with keeping up my entries of late, I went on holiday last month and never seemed to get back into it. But I’ve found my mojo again!

Here is some pictures of a commission I did for a friends sons 19th birthday. The ring is made of sterling silver with a small uncut ruby set by folding up the edges of the two small squares, then gently pressing them against the stone. (sorry the photos aren’t the best, the ruby came out looking like a raisin! Photography isn’t my strong point!!) It was my first proper commission so I was pretty excited!

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