Making Victorian my own

 Above is a piece of silver i had etched with a ready made pattern which i printed onto transparency sheet. Because I am trying to personalise my designs a bit more I am going to try and etch over the already etched pattern- just using a nature inspired Victorian style spider and web scratched into bitchumen.

 This is my tattoo.

 I have also started designing my own wallpaper designs which i am going to make in digital form and mirror to make them symmetrical then etch and recreate in my jewellery.

Etching and then some

 

 I am trying to run silver solder into the etched copper lines as to later file down the excess and have the pattern shown in silver in the copper.

 I have some pieces of porcelain/pottery with which i am etching complementary patterns which immitate or correspond to the pieces themselves.

Etching away

As my focus moves more towards the ornament and it's patterns and motifs of Victorian objects, I am trying to incorporate more such style in my pieces. I have been etching silver and copper using bitchumen as a resist and hand drawing the detail to be etched using mainly Victorian wallpaper as a reference.

Originally i was using transparencies (as below) of printed pre-existing designs as a resist to etch but wanted to make the pieces more "my own."

Vinyl Record Bangles Revisitted

 I have been fighting the idea of leaving my record bangles plain because i just feel they lack substance without some eye garnish :P I was using lace and button or silver silhouette details to add some context to them, but have recently tried my hand at engraving them with an electric engraver.

 While the engraving was fairly successful on the flat records, once bent up it bent out leaving only the deepest enravings visible.

My next step is to send some flat ready cut record pieces (of wich i now have stacks) to a professional hand engraver to see if by our skills combined we can make some beautiful bangles.
I also noticed recently that it was common for Victorian cuffs or bangles to be made in pairs, and think this approach might suit the vinyl cuffs- especially in that i have always considered them to reference old fashioned sleeve cuffs.