Exploring the colour

In figure 1, below I used a straight and curved line to draw different shapes of nails, that I always do to my clients when they want to get their nails done. My idea was to make these nails in metal because I have never seen nails that are made in metal.

Figure 1- Nails shapes

In Figure 2, below its a copper plate, I pierced 2-dimensional shapes of nails. The left-hand side, it a coffin shape and on the right-hand side it a stiletto shape. They both look flat, my aim was to make them look like a three-dimensional shape.

Figure 2- Nails shapes in copper plate

In figure 3, I used a doming block to cover the shape of the nail to look like a 3D shape whereas in (fig2) it looks like a flat piece.

Figure 3- domed coffin nail shape

The nail in (fig 3), looks simply because it had no colour. It is just plain domed metal, whereas I wanted them to look realistic. The aim was to add colour on the nails then, I decided to use opaque enamel colours. In figure 4 each nail has two shades of colours, I was trying to do an ombre style by combining primary and secondary colours.

Figure 4- Nails with enamelling