Gnarly Treble Clef

Creating this piece surely was a journey for myself. The original plan was to design something for a birthday based on this treble clef design by Marika Pounamu. This is what we ended up with.

This piece was multi layered and truly 3 dimensional. You can see all the aspects to it in this video.

This is where we started with a few sketches talking about the concept of the treble clef and getting the right amount of gnarly. With the larger image at the bottom being the final.

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Then we chose the pounamu and added the design to it.

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Then the most dramatic part was the cutting and rough shaping of the piece. I had to pause half way through this to make the plasticine model to get my head around where the different parts would go.

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And then there was lots of sanding to smooth it all out before the polishing. Lost of patience thrown in there too.

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