Showing posts with label Simple nail design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Simple nail design. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

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