Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Sunflower brooch

Below is an image of a sunflower brooch that was cast in sterling silver.

Bowes, K., (2021). Sunflower brooch.

In my quest to find the right size sunflower for my earpiece, I experimented with moulding a sunflower out of wax. I doubled up the petals so that the sunflower looks full like my reference. For the centre of the sunflower, I researched the Fibonacci spiral and tried transferring the spiral onto the wax. Unfortunately, the pattern didn't translate once the sunflower was cast. I used a bur to drill divots so that the spiral changed from a pattern into a texture. The cast sunflower was far too large for the earpiece so I used it for a brooch, as seen above.

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