I have made new work and have reopened my Etsy store. The Etsy store can be found at Robin47.etsy.com.
I have been making a lot of earrings and a few other things. here is one of the pairs of earrings that I have recently completed:


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I have been working on the repousse in the pitch bowl, adding detail and shape to the form. here is a picture of it with the stone sitting on the flattened out spot where it will go after I make the bezel, one of the next things to be done. I tried to add a lot of varied sizes of punch marks to create some variety and contrast.


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Now that the outer edge has been defined pretty well, it's time to move on to the body of the piece, to define the inner set of flames and start working in the final shape of things. Things are going fairly well so far. The part near the head of the comet still has to be flattened and made ready for the bezel setting holding the glass piece that we ( Read more... )

Ok, we have switched to the front now. We are starting to work around the edges here and define the shape a lot more, as is evident in the picture. At some point the body of the piece will be cut loose from the surounding flange which is needed in the process to help the metal stretch.


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Here we go with the repousse part. I have cut a piece of fine silver and placed it in the pitch bowl. First we work from the back side and push the general shape into the metal. We're not trying for detail here, we just need some hight for the piece to be three dimensional. The little tongues of fire can come later.


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Well, it's time to get going on the next comet (which I have been doing) and I'm going to WIP this one here. This comet is going to be a little different from it's predecessors in that it will have some repousse in the main body where the previous ones used flat outlines. Here is the drawing I decided to use:


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I can't believe that I haven't managed to post this in my lj! Here is the #4 comet pin I finished a few days ago called Blue Streak.
It is made from fine and sterling silver, 24 kt. gold foil, reticulation silver and has a dichromatic glass stone as the centerpiece, a yellow CZ and 2 uncut diamond beads. Dimensions: 1 3/4" x 2 1/2"


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The third piece in the Comet Series is a pin titled "Gaia's Tears". This one also has a centerpiece of dichromatic glass mounted in a gallery wire bezel. This piece contains a combination of sterling and fine silver. The upper section is Keum Boo (see description in the previous post) and the lower drops ar a garnet cabachon in the middle flanked ( Read more... )

More news!! Descending Comet won Members Choice in the December Jewelry Show at EBSQ art! I am sooo pleased!! And it sold on eBay ( Read more... )