Daddy!

Today, two years ago my father died and today I sit and remember all the silly things he did and things he taught me and showed me. I found a poem that I want to dedicate to my father on this day.

I love you, Dad, for all the things you did.
You made me laugh when I was feeling blue.
You could untie the hardest knot of all,
Although I had tugged the lace until it was small.

You knew the the reason for most everything,
Like why it rained and why bees sometimes sting,
Like why the sun came up and flowers bloom,
And why a jet created a sonic boom.

You are the closest friend Ive ever had.
You shared with me the times both good and bad.
I love you, Dad, for all the things you did,
But most of all I love you, Dad, For you.

Wild Rose Earrings!

I have finished my Wild Rose earrings, but there are a few technical problems that I still have to work on. I feel that you cant really see the colour stone, so I feel that the stone needs to be bigger and the wire should be thinner. So will be making new ones and see how they come out.

Wild Rose Process!

As you have seen from my last post I have been designing a new range of flowers, the Wild Rose. I have been spending a lot of time trying to get the right texture. I have made a few test pieces and so far they are working. Once I found the texture that I wanted to use I felt that the piece would need colour as wild roses come in many different colours, so I decided to use colour stones.

Young Artists!

Friday night was exciting, our local High School has an evening every year for their grade 12 pupils to show their art work and designs. A family friend of ours had taken part in it and we went to the evening show. It was wonderful to see what the younger generation is up to and thinking in terms of design, it was mostly dresses that they design but the project was wearable art, it took me back to when I was in grade 12 and had to do our wearable art fashion show. But it was great to see so many different styles of wearable art. My favourite was a young lady (who asked not to be mentioned) who made a very short but beautiful creation, using colourful paper into flower an making the flowers into a dress. My friendas dress is to the right and the dress that I loved is below.

Thinking!

I have found myself a bit stuck on the Daises range, so I have started designing for a new flower range Wild Roses. As you have seen from the picture below, you can see a small process that I have gone though to get to my design and some test pieces that I have started making.

I have been looking at the basic shape of the wild rose petals and have used these shapes to create my simple flower shape. From there its just experimenting with my different textures that I know and think will work for the piece that I have in mind. I'm already thinking of using coloured stones in the middle with wires holding the stone in, acting like claws. I'm at the moment, working on that.

Planting Plants!

Its just 8 days into spring and all you hear are the birds that wake you up in the morning or in my case the birds and the bee's, I have a nut tree outside my bedroom window and in spring the bees start coming back. I woke up yesterday I felt some what house bound and getting home sick, as in being at home to much and not getting out a lot. So I have decided to start my own little flower garden. Its something to keep me busy and out of the house in the morning. Ive been so excited to start my little flower garden. Even my brother Jason got his hand dirty and helped me.

Thoughts

Over the past few days I have been doing some of my own research for a presentation on my work for the 3rd years at collage but have some how stumbled on to a few artist that I have really enjoyed. The first one is Hannah Simpson. I love the simple flower shape but what I enjoyed the most about her pieces is the texture that she adds.

Hannah Simpson
Ref: http://www.dazzle-exhibitions.com/

The second jeweller that I found very intresting was Alexis Dove. A designer of a few ranges but one inpurticure caught my eye and that was the Wild Rose collection. These piece sort of reminded me of the flowers I use to make last year in my 3rd year.

Alexis Dove

Ref: www.alexisdove.com