2020,

when things got physical.

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Last Project of the year, The severed head of Magog patch

Iron on, 3.5 inches

Looks good on every color!

Looks good on every color!

 
 
Sketch of a severed Giant Head

Sketch of a severed Giant Head

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The Chivalric Order of St. George

AKA the Georgies, AKA the Witchbane AKA the Second Inquisition… or was it third?

An enamel pin.

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An advert

Made for the Transfiguration Grade 4 Textbook with the aid of a very talented voice artist.

 
Master Wax’s Broken Bottomless Bags

Master Wax’s Broken Bottomless Bags

While these luminous double-velvet monstrosities were finished a while back, this is the first time they were photographed. It’s hard to capture the brilliant reflectivity of the stars and moons, but you’ll get an idea from the unedited photo below.

 
 
 
The sketch that started it all, done back in 2017.

The sketch that started it all, done back in 2017.

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Blusterings

More work that got finished a while back but got photographed in 2020, these are (somewhat ironically) weighty hunks of solid oxidized sterling silver; designed be me, executed by a master jeweler from Australia.

 
 
Sadly, it does not yet exist in gold. Maybe someday.

Sadly, it does not yet exist in gold. Maybe someday.

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Duelist’s Club Pendants

These gold-capped, blackwood beauties would have been impossible without the fantastic abilities of the woodworker Rosanna Coyne, one of the finest craftsmen I’ve had the pleasure of working with, and an all around nice person.

M is for Magic.

M is for Magic.

 
 

A possibly over-designed brief.

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Salamander scale rings

If I’m being wholly honest, these didn’t come out exactly as I’d intended. I’ve been told they look a bit like bicycle tires, and I can’t entirely disagree. Still, they photograph nicely.

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The original sketch. The idea was to have the stone (a marquise cut carnelian, rather than a fire opal, in the end) set to look like one of many scales, but in execution it proved difficult.

The original sketch. The idea was to have the stone (a marquise cut carnelian, rather than a fire opal, in the end) set to look like one of many scales, but in execution it proved difficult.

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The daughters of hecate punk jacket

With hand-painted, painstakingly stitched back patch. Still, in fact, in progress.

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A Rough-hewn Dwarven Signet

Carved with a war horn. For war.

A mysterious runic inscription lines the inner band

A mysterious runic inscription lines the inner band

 
 
Could’ve sworn I took more pictures of the wax

Could’ve sworn I took more pictures of the wax

An early concept sketch for the Daughters of Hecate jacket. Needs way more patches.

 

A Superior serpentine staff

Try not to get bit!

Try not to get bit!

 
 
Magic word.

Magic word.

the First Serpentine staff

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the miner’s friend

A real hammer-head of a ring. Sterling silver set with blue topaz.

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Held in a hand-made jig.

Held in a hand-made jig.

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Vodorov’s Missing Ring

Bronze. One day, I hope to give it the devilish patina it deserves.

Vertebrae.

Vertebrae.

 
 
Would love to get this cast at some point. Set with a variety of garnets.

Would love to get this cast at some point. Set with a variety of garnets.

 
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Thunderings

These will be made someday.

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It all starts with a hunk of wax. Gets lost somewhere along the way. Ha.

It all starts with a hunk of wax. Gets lost somewhere along the way. Ha.

A whole host of wax works were made.

A Gothic Chalk Holder. For wizards, obviously.

A Gothic Chalk Holder. For wizards, obviously.

2019 was a far more

Illustrative year