Critique today....

Everything (jewelry) out for critique today.

The glow box is out to show that the necklace (center) glows in the dark. I was actually able to use the brush and dump technique to create a pattern of glow powder on there. It's promising that the technique worked as hopefully this means that I can apply glow powders in other ways such as stenciling and painting. The small champleve pin was interesting to do as that was the first time I tried to do this on a highly formed work. In the part I've used the champleve technique on slightly formed pieces or flat etches. Definitely need to get a deep etch if I'm going to use the hydraulic press to make the etches three dimensional. I couldn't build up a sufficient layer of the transparent enamels for the colors to really show through and they started to burn off after a bit. Using opaques instead would be one way to fix it, but I think for pieces that small I'll just go up a gauge the next time I do an etch.