When you start to make a new design there are so many decisions to make - what do you do first? When a piece is going to be enamelled all of the metalworking really needs to happen first. Any cutting, hammering, soldering or filing could crack or chip enamel
Planning is tricky when it’s a totally new design. If it’s never been made before there are bound to be changes, mistakes, surprises and improvements along the way.
I had got as far as I could go on paper. The scissors came out and I started to finalise the shapes for my ideas. Then I used these paper shapes to start cutting into the copper sheet. How I was going to join them, the colours I would use would be decided later.
The copper was drilled and textured with steel punches. The copper flowers I’d made a few weeks ago were useful, they gave me ideas as I moved them around.
