BACKGROUND AND DEVELOPMENT

Might I, maybe, make brooches that appeared extra like typical jewelry? Not through the use of metallic after all – I wished to make use of paint. I wished to chop paint & create mini-sculptures. Would that be potential? Possible? What in regards to the economics? How would these one-of-a-kind items be priced? Would my purchasers be excited with such work or would they assume that I used to be re-inventing the wheel? What would a bit even appear like?

These are the issues I used to be pondering of earlier than I started experimenting with truly making ready the paint, determining who to chop the paint and assembling every tiny piece on my round picket canvases.

I had grand plans of constructing two sizes in every model. One 2 inches in diameter and one 2.5 inches in diameter. Probably a sequence of 12 – 14 work and possibly even an 8 inch canvas.

I shortly deserted these planes once I was making my second 2 inch piece and had already developed callouses on my fingers. I attempted a few variations of the gold and copper items, utilizing gold foil and copper foil and determined to make solely seven items, all of them 2 inches in diameter.

All through the method of making the items, I couldn’t cease serious about jewelry artisans and the way they may presumably work with metallic and valuable stones at such a small scale. A newfound respect.

I centered on a number of the metallic acrylic paints in my possession. I might have acquired extra however I’m extra desirous to “get it out” than to plan and wait & launch when it’s the proper time. I wished to concentrate on the gold and the silver however the copper and the blue and inexperienced appeared attractive sufficient for me to put on by myself self, so why not.

Frequently reminding myself to {photograph} some work-in-progress photos, continues to be a job that I’d slightly not have. I wish to make the items and get them out onto my retailer PRONTO. Like Alexander Hamilton who was all the time writing like there was no tomorrow.