2009-05-04

The eyes have it...

The piece on the left is plain fine silver (from a rolled-out fine silver casting grain) with a faint leaf-vein pattern hammered in, and some enamel on to test colours. It was very boring, so I fused a pair of fine-silver eyes with purple enamel to the surface.
The right-hand piece is again fine silver, PMC this time, moulded from a real leaf (starberry). This gave the veins in reverse which was more attractive than the original. After enamelling, I thought it also benefitted from a pair of eyes, perhaps I've just seen too many cast leaves...

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