April 30, 2008

I finished another pair of earrings tonight. The inspiration came from a drawing in the sketchbook made a while back when I was looking through some African artifacts on the internet. Drawings have to incubate sometimes. I think the thing was actually a rattle, but the copper disks on these earrings just simulate the round rattle. The sticks are made of PMC3, and the rest is sterling wire. I scratched some lines in the copper but they disappeared when I patina-ed the metal; the next pair I might try to etch the lines using beeswax. I don’t know if the area will be too small to effectively perform this technique, but experimentation will tell.