Circus Jewellery piece 

To design my jewellery piece I based it mainly on circus animal, tigers in particular. Here are a few references showing how i used the tigers as a design aspect. I used the tiger as my main design aspect because I have always appreciated the raw power of nature in a tigers face.

majestic tiger baring its teeth 

http://www.it-tiger.co.uk/

I also used the stripe pattern of a zebra because of how well the combination of tiger and zebra stripes go together. 

Circus Zebra 

stopcircussufferingalls

Final piece

"The Jewelers Tiger Heart"
made from silver, brass and leather.

 


Through the construction of this piece i found many challenges along the way but non more so than the open Filigree, because of the minimal contact it has with the main piece and the difficulty in keeping an even heat the Filigree did not solder. Until I used small pallions of solder instead of the solder paste, this aloud for more precise solder adhesion. The things I enjoyed the most was the texturing, the backed Filigree and the layering even though it was fairly challenging since I had to balance each one on the other before soldering.  

Design Development 

In my design development i have taken the facial lines of a tiger and the stripe pattern of a zebra, I then played around with each image to come up with some design features witch you can observe bellow.  

I then went on to use those design features in my final design rendering, but not befor adding some of my own ideas such as the circular patterns and original feature augmentations.  

Before i rendered my final detailed design I made a paper prototype showing the sequence of layers, you can see this on the top left below.

finally i went on to design the final filligri placements as well as the back plate and top layer plates.