Theme of the Semester & My show

My theme of the semester is I love Taiwan.

 

Since I am an International student, and I love my country very much.

I would like to use my own  way to introduce Taiwan to everybody with my jewelry pieces.

For my first series of design is inspired from Taiwanese temple culture.

Eight Infernal Generals is a very common performing group in the Taiwaneses temple culture.

Here is some image of the group.

(source from Internet)

(source from Internet)

(source from Internet)

(source from Internet)

Eight Infernal Generals have eight different character, and they have different facial painting to  present each individually, so in my design I would like to corporate the color from enamel on the casting pieces.

Kinetic Adornment

The first project for my senior jewelry studio is kinetic adornment, and we need to have five differnt objects that relate to kinetic.

My Kinetic objects are......................

Pinwheel

Spinning top

Bamboo copter

  Chinese Shadow Play

yo-yo

Summer research -Preparing for mokume gane

          Preparing Metals for Mokume gane, this time I only use brass, and copper.

     We used mile steel for the mokume steel plate

                                           We drilled hole on the steel plate in order to put bolts and nuts

research for Mokume

 This website is came from Japan, and the person put all the process with image about mokume

http://www.geidai.ac.jp/labs/tankin/curriculum_win/mokumegane/mokumegane.htm

Some detail about what we can used for mokume which is came from society of american silversmiths

http://www.silversmithing.com/1mokume.htm

some mokume sample made by a Taiwanese, for me it looks more like twisting wire

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/ag-element/article?mid=3454&prev=3476&next=3444

 Another website from Japan, very nice and shows a lot of detail

http://www.mokumeganeya.com/restore.html

 Another website from Japan, mainly is making mokume ring~ and it shows different metal makes different pattern

http://www.sora-w.com/ism/mokumegane02.html

Student Sale

My first time to do student sale

I really enjoy!!!!

It make me to think about more, such as business card, packaging,ect.

but It was too late to make those thing, so this year might just sale my jewelry

I wish I can do more for the display~oh well~ I can consider next time

So I migh consider to make my bussiness card in Taiwan~ hope it's cheaper!!

Finally my Etching came out

I have been very busy recently
working on many projects!!

I was very stress about the design for the etching.
what can I do for etching??

One day I was in History of Craft, I was stopping by the image.....Mount Fuji

 so I came out with my design for etching.....................

I was useing nail polish for the eitching, but it was very hard to get my line very smooth.

So I used asphaltum for cover the whole pieces of metal with the asphaltum, only one side!! (need to wait 24Hr)

And my professor suggested me use chalk apply on the back side of design put on the top of asphaltum, and then use pen draw over on the design, it will came out like top.

the most  messy part, to scratch the resist away

and When I finish the scratch part, I put a packing tape in the back side of metal, to protect the surface, and creat a handel to hold it in the chemical container, so there will be enough space in betwen the surface of metal and the chemical that we used for the etching. It will helps to get a better result.

so I put in the PCB ( chemical that I used) for about 4 hours, then I got my result

my Final result

Jewelry Production Project

This is my first time doing real production project~~~and I did it!!!