bracelets come in two's

For some reason, I tend to make bracelets in pairs. I started this bracelet while finishing off the previous one. The links are more or less the same, but obviously the colours are a little more placid. I usually quite like the transparent quality of resin, I used to think that it could look too 'flat' when it was opaque, but maybe that's not a bad thing.

Silver and resin square-link bracelet with rivetted flowers, no.2 (close up)

ready...steady...go!

Silver and resin square-link bracelet with rivetted flowers

With the intial sketch, it was really just scribble, I didn't have a specific piece in mind, and I left the sketch alone for a while. It turned out to be one of the firs things I made in my 'workspace' at home, in the garage. Up until this point, I'd made loads of simpler 'square-resin-earrings' (I'll post them on here somewhere). As you can see from the test piece, I was grappling with the links of the bracelet. I tried a few options (simpler, quicker options), but eventually settled on amoeboid looking square links I'd done for a previous bracelet.

'test piece'

just a doodle - initial 'sketch'

So this isn't quite the beginning, and in fact might be a very disjointed place to start, but it is a start.

My body of work, up until the finishing my Btech, can be put under the title
'Contemporary Indian Jewellery'. My jewellery during those student years were full of imagery, forms, colours from my Indian culture.

After my Btech, I think I wanted to make jewellery that wasn't obviously linked to my Btech topic, so in short, I started to 'doodle' more geometric shapes, the simpler the better, and the pieces that I started to make, looked like a far cry from what I'd done before (although the materials are similar). I think it was an effort to distance myself from everything I'd done before, to try and do simpler pieces, to see if I could, and maybe agonise less over every decision.

Where to start?

Where to start?...well I'm not too sure where the beginning is, so let's start with the not too distant past. It's new year's eve, and I've broken my leg...(not a great start), cut to about six weeks later and somewhere between reading Sophie's World and watching cricket highlights (not by choice) I've finally decided to start my blog. No more procrastinating over this issue, I've just decided to do it, to put the jewellery that I've been working on (until most recently) out there, although at present I think I'm mostly doing it to pass the time. So it's not perfect, it'll never be perfect, and I'll ramble quite a lot, but hopefully there'll be pretty pictures to make up for it.
...now to decide which piece to start with:)