Conversations about Jewellery Designing and Life
Spent a good 4 hours just engraving today, just shading up the chrysanthemum I’ve been working on since yesterday. Not too bad at all. I was so focused. I think must be the cup of tea I had during lunch. Perhaps I should start drinking tea at lunch again. The previous two times I had […]
Read MoreBeen a rather productive day today. I started out with yet another Japanese crest engraving. Not too bad; didn’t make any serious mistakes. Bored of engraving roundish crests, I tried my hands on a design which I found in a book which takes up the entire of my copper plate. Yes, it’s another chrysanthemum flower. […]
Read More02:41 PM I am done with the “Chrysanthemum”. Rather pleased with this one actually, though I am still sore with the super deep and ugly first cut which you can see from that one petal in the middle of the flower. I should get some black paint to ink up the cuts so that they […]
Read More04:40 PM Bought a bottle of some Insta-Dri Top Coat for nail polish. Stated on the back of its package, it says that their “exclusive Acrylic Polymer top coat hardens and dries any nail color”. I was hoping to use this to seal my pencil graphite transfer and prevent it from smudging on my next […]
Read More04:23 PM Finished with the shading. It is extremely hard to make uniform, consistent parallel lines partly because of my inexperience and partly because of I cannot really see much with 3.5X magnification, so it was mostly done by feel. Another thing is I should probably remove the nail polish before I shade the […]
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Ian KHF 