Matisse Surreal.

[Dennis]

Following the success of the Matisse exhibition at Tate Modern, our project for this term was to make a piece of jewellery with a design inspired by the collages.

Another strand was to continue with the colouring of metals. To kill two birds with one stone, so to speak, I made a brass shell with fronds in homage to Matisse and coloured the back by patination with salt, vinegar and ammonia, adding sawdust for texture.

I decided on a brooch with the main feature a fish, well just the bones, its head, tail and fins still on, confronting a barbed steel hook and a copper worm. To detract from the gloom and doom it has a sparkling pink eye.

Goodness knows what narrative I had in mind: maybe the cruelty of fishing?

The brass has been sprayed with lacquer from a can and the silver parts cold connected. I have called it Matisse Surreal.

Dennis

[mizgeorge]

Dennis - that's just fabulous!

[theresa]

Beautiful Dennis

[CJ57]

I love that!

[susieq]

Dennis - that is lovely - made me smile too which is always a bonus on a Monday morning. As usual, I'm going to ask what size it is, although as it's against a postcard, it looks quite small. Also, is the brooch pin itself silver - i.e. the bit that goes through the cloth? I think I've read before that silver is quite soft for pins and it's okay to use steel instead - not sure whether it was a question on a hallmarking thread.

Susie

[Petal]

That's gorgeous Dennis. I especially like the different colour of the metals.