We're All Ears :: July Inspiration :: Visual Music :: My Take

I have been participating in many a fun challenge this summer. It's a great distraction from the Dossier process and gives me that mental health break that I need. 
This month, over at Earrings Everyday the July inspiration is visual music. 
See the original post here. What fun!

I was so inspired, and found the following video to be my springboard::

I started with some recycled copper that I counter enameled::

Then I moved onto making stencils from screen shots of the video::

I then laid on the enamels and torched them up!

Back in my clean space, I gussied them up with some marker strokes that were present in the visuals then gave them some super long hand-formed copper earwires to match the scheme::

In the end, I added some gold leaf and viola! My inspirations::

 But then, in true Darlene fashion,I removed the black lines and like them so much better!

Have a wonderful day all! xoxo

gold foil and a cold~

came home sick today. hate being sick! especially hate leaving my classroom. BUT, i went and got some seriously hot red and green chile to kill the bug as well as some good tequila. ok, just a little in a sipper. like a hot toddy without the whiskey and honey and lemon and hot water. lol
so, my tommy says ~stay out of your studio and relax!~ i said i would so i brought the relaxing out to my kitchen table as forrest will be home soon and i can't sleep! when f gets home, i will. so there. got the fire roasting and got to the gold foiling of things.

anyway, i started with some buttons and a key plate. not sure of their exact name, those plates. but this one is from latvia and copper and cool. gonna be a necklace.

two different shots of the final result. pretty cool. have no idea what i will do with the buttons yet, but they are sweet. especially the teenie tiny one in the middle.

but then, i realized some of the glue has escaped through button holes and i had gold foiled the table!

shit, i'm in trouble! tom's gonna put two and two together...