Friday, July 31, 2015

Finishing feathers on Friday

©2015 Barry Smith - Feather pendant with ornate recycled silver-plated chain
More recently quite a lot of my creative time has gone into bigger art works - community and commission. However in an earlier post I indicated I was quietly making a few metal feathers.

I have managed to finish four pendant feathers; and three sets of earring feathers. All the feather forms were hand hammered on my smaller anvil. Recently in a 'collectables' shop I bought four older silver chains - I have used these on the feather pendants - another bit of recycling and reuse. The pendant feathers are about 6cm long. The chains are all about 50cm long.

©2015 Barry Smith - Feather pendants with recycled chains
©2015 Barry Smith - Feather pendant with recycled square link silver chain
©2015 Barry Smith - Feather pendant with recycled silver chain
©2015 Barry Smith - Feather pendant with ornate recycled silver-plated chain
©2015 Barry Smith - Feather pendant with box link silver chain
The earring feathers are about 2.5-3cm long.

©2015 Barry Smith - Feather earrings
©2015 Barry Smith - Feather earrings - with silver plated ears wires
©2015 Barry Smith - Feather earrings - with silver plated ears wires
©2015 Barry Smith - Feather earrings - with solid silver earrwires and solid gold jump ring
©2015 Barry Smith - Feather earrings - with ornate back
A small creative task but quite a nice sense to complete a task. Friday - hmm - off to have a quiet drink or two and some zuchini slice.

3 comments:

  1. Your feather jewelry pieces are all beautiful. Lovely on the back as well. Wonderful work, as always!

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  2. Stunning, B! So very tempting...

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  3. Hi AA & C - thanks for checking out the feathers; and thanks for your comments. AA - always good when another metal person appreciates the work. C - the silver-plate over copper feathers are particularly tempting!!!! Go well. B

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