Earrings

I fancied having a go at making a pair of earrings, so I made these.  I know there quite simple but it was my first attempted, I think I will try something more difficult next time.

Flower dish

This is a small flower dish I made as a present, it also has an insert in one of the petals for hair clips to sit.  The bottom image shows it with jewellery sat in the dish area.

Finished piece set up at the degree show.

These are photos of my finished set.  The bottom left image is how I set it up for the degree show. 

Making the sweet shop

(Left) I started by using the templates I had created from my white model to make the parts I needed.  I used three layers of ticket card instead of mount board as the sweet shop is circular and mount board would be too thick to use.  I glued the window sills on before bending the three levels of the sweet shop together.  I couldn't completely put the sweet shop together until I had painted the window frames and put the windows in place, which were made from acetate that I had printed the window design on.

 (Right) In these pictures I was making the shop window, I made it out of mount board and painted it a wood effect.  I then made sweets for the window out of Sculpey and foil and painted them bright colours.  The window seemed to to look a bit empty when I put it together to see what it looked like, I realised that it was missing a shelf.  So I made one to fit inside and made some bowls and put beads in for sweets, then stuck the window pane and window sill/shelves in place.  I put three arches in a couple of millimetres apart so that it would give the curve of the top of doorway more structure.  The next step was to paint the door and window sills and then the main sweet shop.

(Left) This is the completed sweet shop with my design next it.

Creating the base board and trellis

 To create the bases for my sets I cut out two boards.  The board for my stately home set is 2ft by 4ft but was cut in to an 'L' shape so that the sweet shop set could be placed behind it on a separate podium higher up.

(Image above) First I drew out ground plan and painted the board with three layers of paint to get natural tones of grass, I also used a sponge to create a stippled effect to get more of a grass texture.  I then used a product similar to flocking called Fine turf over the paint to create the grass areas.  To create the gravel path up to the door of the stately home I used a product made from ground up nut shells.

(Image above) This is the trellis I made for the side of the stately home.  I made it from a very soft thin piece of wood which I cut up into strips then glued into place.  To make the flowers I used green florists wire and then got small strips of purple/pink and green tissue paper layered it on top of each other and twisted the wire which created the flower.  I then wrapped the strips of flowers round the trellis.  

The rest of my trees for the set

For the Tinkle-tinkle trees I created a wire mesh column to start the trunk of the tree.  Then with tin foil I made 'sticks' and glued them at the base individually, twisting them round the trunk to get the style of tree that was in my design (picture on the left) 




(Picture below) Here I covered the armature with Sculpey (an oven bake clay) to make the Tinkle-tinkle tree.  I made the hands without an armature and this proved to be quite difficult with the size of them, I then decided to change the original armature.  By putting flat 'pads' on the ends of the 'sticks' that were wrapped round the trunk, which formed both the twisted trunk and branches, made it easier for me to sculpt the hands.

(Left) This is a close up of an example of one of the hands that would be used on the Tinkle-tinkle trees.  This also gives you a sense of the size and the detail in it.

(Below) The finished Tinkle-tinkle tree before being baked, each one of the Tinkle-tinkle trees had 20 (or there abouts) hands on them.

(Left) These pictures are of the construction and finished pieces before baking.  The top two are the Apple trees, the middle two are none specific trees and the bottom two are bushes.  They were all created in the same way as the Tinkle-tinkle trees and the Cherry trees using the same methods.

(Below) These are all the trees I created for my animation set.  After painting them I added foliage to the trees, Cherry trees and bushes.  I painted a glaze over the apples to make them shine and pink and purple flowers were added to the Tinkle-tinkle trees.  The pink and purple flowers were made from Sculpey (the petals) and inside each set of petals there was two sets of three beads strung and glued together to get the effect I wanted.

 

My Cherry Trees

These are what I have created from my designs...

...these are the cherry trees before I painted them...

.. this is after being painted and here I was putting the foliage on...

...this is my Cherry Tree finished with the the cherries on.