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Friday, November 4, 2022

Preparation for our upcoming studio sale

Fiona and I are holding a studio sale on 19 November at our Deckled Edge Press studio. Today I was sanding cement items in preparation for the sale - including the hearts above. There are also candle burners, stones, cubes. The hearts in the opening photo have such a soft form though they are made from raw cement - they measure 50mm across.

I started with a bench full of bits that needed sanding - you can see from the back of the candle burner there can be quite a bit to tidy up.

Photos of some of the finished bits follow. The cube with the brass bits included in it is a solid 110mm cement cube.

A photo of the stash packed up to take down to the DEP studio; and faceted hearts.

This was a good task to do today given Fiona and I are still not up to full speed after the trip home.

Sunday, August 8, 2021

Love (hearts) and peace

I have finished grinding and polishing some of the metal heart forms that I cast whilst testing the metal melting furnace. Fiona oversaw a number of pourings. The hearts are cast from melted silver-plated metal clippings I keep aside when cutting up salvaged metal. I keep the silver-plated brass and silver-plated copper separate. Gorgeous textured brass heart above - this heart has about 1% silver content.

The copper heart below has a silver sheen because it also has about 1% silver content.

I have poured a couple of solid silver hearts including the one below; but as they are solid silver they are more expensive. This silver heart is for sale here.

The four together looks gorgeous. I particularly like the unique texture on the top surface of each heart - created as the metal cools.

I have been asked to make some peace buttons for sale through our Deckled Edge Press site. Our peace buttons have been made in preparation for International Peace Day on 21 September.

Fiona and I chose 6 designs of original art works; and I made a stash over the weekend. I love the 3D look of some of the images on the buttons - particularly the "imagine peace" and "believe peace" buttons.

The covid lockdown did provide the opportunity to get some things done.

Friday, August 2, 2019

Hearts - just because one can

I was up for a little bit of unstructured creativity today so I decided to continue with the buffalo horn and make a trio of hearts from a slice of the horn.

Hearts roughly marked out and cut.

First grinding on the belt sander.

Second grinding on the wheel.

And then a polish to smooth and bring out the colour and grain of the horn.

The finished product looked good on the polishing bench and the rust table.

They could of course also be used as paper folders.

Friday, August 3, 2018

Of hearts and posts

A couple of bits for Friday. Fiona said that she was a intending to scatter a few more heart forms in different places on the block. She already has a pottery heart, a couple of heart shaped stones and a recently acquired iron heart formed by a blacksmith. She indicated she was on the look out for some wire hearts that would rust.

I managed to make the three wire hearts below. The biggest heat shape is about 15-17cm long.

The raw materials from my wire stash.

The vise was very handy for holding the forms when I was winding barbed and plain wire on the base form.

I have started making three post forms that will make a small installation down on the terraces. One thing leads to another - I decided to use some of the weathered lengths of timber that had sat near the sandstone that is gradually migrating down to the rock river.