Beauty

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Divo tie pin

Figure 1

The client that I’m designing for its Somizi Mhlongo who is most known as South African television personality, radio personality, choreographer, actor, singer and celebrity chef. Mr Mhlongo also has Somahali foundation that helps some community during the lockdown. As am exploring the beauty of nail art, my theme is suitable for women’s. As we required to make jewellery for men’s the biggest challenge for me was to choose someone that is suitable for my theme and I’m not used to make man jewellery.

Figure 2

I was inspired by a flying beetle bug. As was busy going through Instagram I came across Somizi Mhlongo profile and he is one of the most knowledgeable and dramatic men. He is like a flying bug judging by his character and he grabs any business opportunity that comes to his way.

My client is more fashionable and he is also gay. I decided to make a tie pin with the creativity of different shapes, colour and texture. I decided to name the tie pin as Divo which is Somizi nickname. In this tie pin, I created a beetle skeleton by using the marquis as big main shape which looks like a Zulu shield. I used coffin nail shape to create inner wings and outer wings, I rivet the wings so that they can easily move. As I was going through my research I noticed that Somizi like Tanzanite stone then I decided to full fill my client dream by adding his favourite stone.

The more special thing about my jewellery piece it that you can change colours on the marquis shape. I used acrylic gel because Somizi likes to put gel polish on his nails, so I made it easy for him to add whatever colour he likes in that time so that he can match with his nails. I used holographic nail pigment to cool the colour of the tie pin my aim was no to show the brightness of the colour.

What I like about my jewellery piece it refers to an LGBT flag colour. The rainbow flag symbols lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer. Red symbolizes life, Orange symbolises healing, Yellow symbolises the sun and Green symbolises nature. Any men can wear this tie pin that why I added a holographic pigment to cool down the colour. The beauty about my tie pin, you can change colour by socking off the acrylic gel in acetone, then add another colour any time you like.

Figure 3

Final piece

What I like about this picture below it is the colour of holographic pigment it shows the LGBT flag colour. The rainbow flag symbols lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer. Red symbolizes life, Orange symbolises healing, Yellow symbolises the sun and Green symbolises nature. The person that I'm designing for he is gay and he is most know. I used his favourite stone, which is a tanzanite stone.

Figure1-T, Sishi(2020).

Thursday, August 20, 2020

Design development.

I slightly change a few things in my final design. Looking at (fig1) bellow the piece look incomplete, especially when you look in the red circle. That space was bothering me because it looks like there is something that needs to be there. If you look carefully in (fig2) I just added a Tanzanite stone, which is Somizi Mhlongo favorite stone. What looks different about my silver prototype then my platinum final piece, I slightly changed the out wings with texture by folding them in a different way. The colour of the stone I used, it's the tanzanite and it violetish blue which is the most valuable stone colour. On the marquis shape, I used lilac and holographic pigment.

In the URL it's Somizi and Mohale visits the Nungu diamonds to choose the diamonds they want for their custom-design rings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6r_HIKrkPU

Figure 1-Sishi, T(2020). Silver prototype for men's jewellery.

Figure 2-Sishi, T(2020). The platinum final piece for men's jewellery.

Trying different types of Rhinestone.

I was playing with a variation of nail art rhinestone, to see which stone shape will look much better in my final jewellery piece.

Figure 1-Sishi, T(2020). Teardrop shape

Figure 1-Sishi, T(2020). Marquis shape

Figure 1-Sishi, T(2020). Round shape

Figure 1-Sishi, T(2020). Oval shape

Figure 1-Sishi, T(2020). Antique cushion shape

Trying different shades of colours

As was busy trying different colours, I noticed that (fig2)blue and (fig3)green they both look dark in platinum. If you look carefully in all colours, I used holographic pigment to balance metal and colour because I don't want to show exactly the colour that is underneath. In (fig1), below the purple one is my favorite. On the final, piece I will try various shades of purple.

Figure1: Purple colour

Figure2: Blue colour

Figure3: Oliver green colour

Monday, August 3, 2020

second prototype

I used aluminum to make my prototype. I was trying different types of materials because I'll be making my final piece in platinum. I was playing with colour. I was thinking of adding colour all over the metal. I realize as ill be making this brooch in platinum. The final piece that I made in platinum, I will add colour on marquis shape only so that the platinum can sand out as a focal point.

Jewellery inspiration

In the pictures below, it's a jewellery brooch pins that looks similar to the one that I'm busy making. What I like about these brooch pins is that they all look big and they draw more attention to the wearer. Looking at fig2, I like how the lady is facing the other side and she is not paying any attention to the bug on her shoulder. According to my visual looking, It looks like the lady is more focused and she is paying more attention to the person she busy talking too.