finishing and polishing
It's nearly Christmas, and I'm recovering from Covid. I managed to avoid it for three years, only to get it now, along with some kind of throat infection thing which everyone seems to have…?
Anyway, between that and deciding to buy a house at probably, politically, the worst time in Britain for 15 years, the last three months have run away with me a bit.
I'm catching up with my blog, because my first set of work is made, photographed and ready to try to find a home in January.
Its difficult to correctly remember the order of everything in the last few months, so I may jump about a bit. Covid brain!
Angela has polished my Beetle to perfection, I have made, polished, hallmarked and completed all the silver elements of my designs.
I had made a piece of barbed wire for my hedgerow pot - part of my initial design - and spent an age patinating it, copper plating it, patinating it again, changing the finish, re-doing it. If I were doing film work, the effects Oscar would be mine, but it just didn't look right on the glass. As Angela said, and to state the obvious she has great taste, it looked too real, and heavy. I then changed the final design to have gold beetles on. It's sooo much better. I must remember not to bin a strip of hallmarked ( silver) barbed wire now.. : - )
Angela polished the honeycomb pot, and the result looks like a blob of liquid honey.
I had drilled holes on the outside, to peg my blossom wreath into, and fitted the silver gilt collar, and Honeybee lid.
The Moth and Moon piece had a last acid coat on the glass, and I made a silver stopper. I pressed sheet silver around a wooden former on the Bonny Doon, cutting two circles to form a lentil/moon topper.
I had my pieces photographed with Simon Bruntnel last week. He's amazing. I was standing behind him, virtually looking over his shoulder, and couldn't see what he saw at all. The camera would click, and the linked screen shows something with perfect lighting, not bits of polystyrene and the back wall of the studio. It was a great experience. It's nice to unveil my new work after all this time, and to see them looking so good. If only someone could light me so well this week, it might help me feel better!
