Hello I just wanted to share some of the pieces I have done in the last year. I took up the hobby out of an interest in sculpture and a background in the industrial arts. Most of my work so far has been cast using Delf Clay I tend to start with rough forms and then grind and shape the metal with hand tools or a small rotary tool. I think of the pieces as more of one off art pieces rather than products to be reproduced so they may seem a bit unique but I hope you’ll forgive me for my eccentric design philosophy. I will post one piece at a time over the next few weeks.
First a ring featuring 10 carat natural emerald in a brutalist silver setting. I had in mind the sort of rings a sorcerer in a grim fantasy story would wear. I titled the piece Shattered Memory.
I really like how this came out, and since it was a damaged gemstone I got the materials for fairly cheap. The heaviness of the setting gave me a lot of trouble, it felt hard to balance it with the band and I had to recast it with a thicker band before I was satisfied.
If anyone is interested, the ring is size 3 but could be sized up to a 6 or 7 and is for sale on my Mercari page now.
https://www.mercari.com/us/item/m15777512743/?iv_code=XQEJYQ&object_id=m15777512743&object_type=item