Finished!!!!

Done! I am pleased with the way they came out. Megan helped me with photographing them tonight. Let me know what you think!

Progress

More progress! I patina-ed two of my rings today. I am pretty pleased with them. I worked on my stock ring again but it still needs some cleaning up! Guess I will get to that tomorrow. Time to put together a process book!

Updates

I have had a lot of fun so far with the things I have been making. In order to keep my stress levels down, I am not letting myself get worked up about the rings. I am trying to keep it simple, while letting myself explore the material. So today I worked on the ring made from stock. For this ring, I really decided to embrace the forms that stock comes from. Instead of trying to make it sheet so that it was more familiar to work with I formed the stock in a way that it sits on my knuckle. If you uncurl your finger, it falls off. The point is to force your finger to stay in that position. This ring represents trigger finger which is similar to carpal tunnel. The tendons in your hand tighten up so that your finger is stuck in this curled position.
Tomorrow I want to work on patinaing my arthritis ring and finishing my wire ring components. I hope it turns out well!

Drawings for the project

Here are some images so can you can see some of my thought process for the project

Progress so far

Final Project: RINGS

For our final project we were asked to produce four rings. One out of wire, one out of sheet, one stock, and one tube. This project was more about exploring the materials and having fun with what you were doing with them. I decided to pick aliments of the hands for my concept. I am working with dermatitis, arthritis, and a few others. The project is due on thursday. So far, I have about 3 rings done. The only problem I am having is with the stock. When i made my designs, i was not sure how i would work with it. After playing with it for a while today, I have realized my original designs are useless for this. So, its back to the drawing board I'm afraid. I will post some of my sketches and a few images I have so far to show my current progress.