Patina

This week:

4 hours painting coral

1 hour casting

2 hours sawing metal shapes

3 hours forming/finishing metal

2 hours working on patina

5 hours writing thesis

This has been a pretty great week in terms of this project. I have completely finished forming all of my jewelry which means from now on I will be focused on casting and painting coral and attaching it to the jewelry forms. The pictures today are of the ring (which I made this week) and the bracelet (which is now soldered together and colored). I also made the necklace this week, but it is currently in a pile of ammonia soaked sawdust, slowly turning blue so I don't have a picture of it yet. I am very happy with how the patina turned out, its exactly what I was envisioning. Also, I wrote the first draft of my thesis this week. I was a bit nervous that I wouldn't have enough to say since I changed my project so recently, but once I started writing, the whole thing made a lot more sense to me. I think writing the paper helped me to organize my thoughts and feelings about my project and refreshed my inspiration.