Bronze Pendent

[brad]

I have a few large thick bronze and copper round washers in my stash.  So I decided to make pendent with them.  This is the first, about 1.75" long.
I first ran it through my rolling mill enough to stretch it into an oval shape, then textured it, and put a bonus/surprise on the backside.  I also put a very slight curve on it for.  (to pair with some of these oval pendents, I hope to buy small washers and do same, for ear rings.)  *While things in the pickle or between all the annealing,  I pulled stuff out of the gardens!  brad

[DawninCal]

Nicely done, Brad! I really like the shape you achieved after putting it through the rolling mill and the curve is a nice tough as well. The textured surprise on the back is an unexpected bonus. Did you etch/engrave the designs on the front of it too?



Dawn

[brad]

Thank you. The left/front pic is hammered. The back/right view is just some quick stamping. In New Mexico, I observe that many of the Navojo and Hopi, and others that do metalsmithing will often do a little something on the backs underneath side of cuffs, and other jewelry. I saw one cuff in a gallery in Santa Fe that was heavily detailed equally and the outside and inside of a cuff with engraving. Amazing for something that will never be seen on one side. I believe the gallery had about 6500.00 on the piece. Brad

[caeterle]

The back of pieces has been a topic here before as well. I love if a piece looks good on both sides because it tells me that the creator has put their attention into ALL of it, not just what you see at first glance.

I really like that hammered look, nice work, and I would absolutely love to discover the detail on the back when picking this up for the first time.

[DawninCal]

Ooops, my bad! I had the front and back mixed up. I do agree that paying attention to the back shows a level of care and attention to detail that many artists skip.

My painted pendants almost always have a tiny little painting on the back in keeping with the theme of the larger miniature on the fronts. I also initial and date them. Exception being if the painting is mounted in a bezel as there's no way to add initials/tiny painting. In that case, I choose or make a bezel that has an interesting/pretty back side.



Dawn

[caeterle]

And that's what I so love about your painted pendants.
As some of you may remember, I have two pendants that Dawn made for me, of my Merlin and Meffi. I asked her to keep the back a secret, that is between Merlin, Meffi, Dawn, and myself