The weekend was made up of many activities including planting our spring veggie garden; applying fertiliser to roses and other trees; attending a farewell for one of our local artists; and drilling and bolting some of Fiona's works for her upcoming exhibition. And we had 25 mm of rain to settle all the new plants in.
This afternoon I got a bit of time to finish a couple more Steampunk influenced pendants (photos later) and I started on my flock of peace birds for International Peace Day on 21 September.
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| ©2015 Barry Smith - A small bird of peace |
I intend to make 21 patinated copper birds that will be stamped with the word peace - they will be hang in the tree at the front of our house with Fiona's peace weathergrams. Today I managed to cut out the first handful.
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| ©2015 Barry Smith - A handful of small peace birds |
I love the the combination of natural patina, raw copper edges and the rust - making these 7 was a joy.
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| ©2015 Barry Smith - A small family of peace birds on rust |
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| ©2-15 Barry Smith - Peace birds and rust |
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| ©2015 Barry Smith - Patinated copper and rust |
The photos of two more Steampunkish pendants. I cut two lugs off one.
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| ©2015 Barry Smith - Watch pendant |
And all the lugs off the other.
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| ©2015 Barry Smith - Watch pendant |
I found that I could republish the very cloudy glass of the watch faces with my jewellery polish - works well. A good end to a good weekend
The simplicity and patina of the peace birds are exquisite.
ReplyDeleteThe birds will look fabulous hung on your tree with Fiona's weathergrames, so nice they might go? I know I would love one, so hang them high.!
ReplyDeleteYour birds are super, B, shape, colour, patina, just beautiful! I've just been given a NZ Tui bird, cut from an old LP record. And in my garden the Noisy Miners are zooming around in mating rituals, and telling me I shouldn't be there. It's a week for birds.
ReplyDeleteBusy, busy. The birds are great...and will last forever.
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