I have decided to only do cold contact on my piece. This means I will not do any saturing, or anything that involves heat. I will rivet the piece together at the end, and up set the edges to make the metal appear thicker.

After I etched my piece and placed it in the acid for MANY hours, I cut out four different sections and starting bending them into a cuff, and a top portion that goes down the center, top of the forearm. This piece will reach my middle finger, which will have a ring like structure on the end for support.

My piece is going to be a abstraction from the "tree man." This man has a disease that makes his skin turn into a group a warts that appears tree like. But my twist on the approach is that I want my piece to appear beautiful and not like disease that people are afraid of catching.

After etching in my design, I realized that the deeper I make the etch the better it appears in the metal. A classmate, let me borrow a few tools to "scratch" in my design. Im going for a organic tree like appearance

I am in the middle of working on the project in motion. I plan to etch in a design and Im looking forward to the outcome.

2nd Posting

Well we just started running with our ideas for the project in motion. I'm a little nervous but also excited to get started! I hope to attempt to add some pictures along the way. But until then I just describe as best as I can!

Hi Everyone!!
It's our first week of class in Des 331. I'm looking forward to our new projects and all the new techniques I will be learning. So far in class we have had a competition which included making something from the provided items given. I recieved 6th place and I was pretty excited about that! Next time I'm hoping to score even higher!! :)