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Antique silver & turquoise dragonfly ring

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Hammered Copper & Cloisonne Earrings

I love earrings that are essentially all-in-one pieces; the earwire and primary earring are a single unit. I had seen a blog on hammering and fusing Argentium silver into a heart and decided to use copper to form, hammer, and shape heart earrings. The cloisonné bead in copper and brass was a natural to give the earrings movement and polish, and the combination of warm copper and brass melds beautifully together. The copper has been sealed with Renaissance Wax to impede tarnish.

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The earrings were made by embossing brass and then coloring with inks. The colors run in somewhat a random pattern, intermixing, creating new colors and textures not unlike a watercolor painting. I was playing with the inks to see if I could come up with the look of enamel without have to kiln fire enamel. This technique works well and each time you are not 100% sure how it will turn out, so it is intriguing. I then polish the exposed and raised brass and seal the brass. The sealant also 'moves' the colors, adding another layer of unexpected results. They have been a huge hit at the shows I have done.



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