“Sprocket, the bug hunter” is my first illustrated portrait brooch. Hand sawn bronze sheet, laser cut and oil blackened steel components with silver rivets that make up a pin back mechanism on the back of the brooch, and decorative details on the front. Micron pen, graphite, and prismacolor drawn on 8 layer’s of powder coat that were sifted on to create the cat portrait.
With this new body of work, I am exploring how my love for drawing can coincide with my love for adornment and fabrication. Beginning with highlighting who and what is around me at home, Im creating a serious of wearable brooches that can live on the body or on the wall as art. The process of creating these pieces is still an ongoing experiment, learning how far I can push the powder coat, and what I can gain from the media, verses just painting on canvas or drawing on paper. I feel comfortable with metal, so it only makes sense to not just fabricate, but draw on it as well.