susanna

this is for my dear friend susanna..i know you'll appreciate this....

Rocking the Daisy's 09

great times with the cass

en daar chill die mense

too hungover to deal

andre doing his thang

yes, this year's Daisy's was super duper!

the new stuff..

First stone i set.. we had to cut a letter out the back so my mom got this one..

'flag brooch' silver and resin

chain with 's-clasp'

so now im doing jewellery.. right now we are still learning all the techniques so design freedom is limited.. but here are some of what i have made already.. and yes...its fun!

KALAHARI 09

wow, been a while since i'v been on here- things have been a bit crazy but i'm back on track! Been back in SA for about a month or so of which i spent a week in the Kalahari with my boyfriends family. o h m y g o d. what a beautiful place! take a look.. 

taking a chill on the dunes, enjoying the quiet

Bird hunting

Droewors drying out

awesome!

Unpacking the car at the camp

LAB evaluation

Here are some of the things i made this semester.

some more.. 3D, pouring jug, tiles.

Mateausz alphabet

Peter's pourers

My pourers

Ting's alphabet

Jingz vases.. lovely!

Susanna setting up

wow. and just like that a year has gone by. Last night we set up for LAB evaluation. The final straw.. eeweeee so sad. Everyones things looked awesome though! Collecting results today at 4.. here's a few pics on how things look..

my abc

We had to design alphabets for 2D either editing an existing typography or creating our own from scratch. I created my own. Using grids. Here are my results. Very last minute but im pretty happy with them.

Just a flippin great day with flippin fantastic people!

My tiles tiles are all done and ready for Wednesday.. thank god we no longer have to fire them (no worry about them exploding) here are some of the layouts/ options...
Let's just hope all is well!

Milk pourer- LAB

Now that the tiles are all done we have been busy with milk pourers, money savers and vases. Spent all day in the workshop today making my mould (3 piece) of the pourer. Long process. Tiring process. Dirty process. I now sit here with burning eyes and nose and a throught that feels like it's on fire- guess i don't take too well to the plaster! It was fun though. A good day. Here's how it went...

This is my pourer/ jug (whatever you want to call it). Foam model. Base for plaster mould.

Building up the clay on the sides for the first half of the mould.

First half plaster poured..

And dried!

Sara and I- look how tired i am. Gosh.


Svana getting help from Anna

Making my 'keys'.

Susanna and Svana looking very excited!

Busy days in the workshop..

Nice dirty feet at the end of the day..

last department done!

Susanna happy to be done

Standing around listning to the last of the presentations.

Sara's bag design.

Last week Tuesday we had our last department class! VUHU!! Happy faces and satisfied tummy feelings. Great stuff! :)

3D

3D is finally done and it feels gooood! :) We all got given a picture/ word and had to just basically make it in a 3D form looking as close as possible to the original pic. Mine was a geometric tesselation and my picture i got given was as big as my pinkie fingernail. It was a bit difficult to work out how it was constructed and how it really looked seeing as i don't have super zoom eyes. At the end i got told to design a building or a bicycle helmet pased on the dynamics and structure of a tortise shell. This is the final result. It's 50 x 40cm.