Moth and flowers

The King Blues

The Future's Not What It Used To Be
Photoshoot for The King Blue's new single



















Some of the pictures straight off the film.
The finished artwork is on my website.

Personalised Mermaid Two-Seater

I found this picture in The Observer a week or so ago. Rebels broke into the homes of the Gaddafi family and in his daughters house they found this mermaid sofa personalised with Aisha Gaddafi's face. And she looks pretty angry. I am adding a personalised mermaid sofa with my own face on to my Christmas list.

Metalwork

The new brooches I've been working on. A brass pigeon foot holding a 6mm pearl.
Playing with my new blow torch and learning how hot is too hot.
And the heat effected pattern that's created in my light weight concrete breeze block that I work onto.

Jewellery now available from my online shop, please visit via my website at www.tessametcalfe.co.uk

Pigeon claw brooches in progress

My desk turned work bench for developing a new design of pigeon claw brooches, from the comfort of my Chesterfield desk chair. The clamp I inherited from my Grandfather.

Bottle

A bottle of Jim Beam Red Stag and Green Island spiced rum that I got sponsorship from for our Brighton graphic design and illustration degree show this year. Also my graduation present from my brother, a bottle of wine shaped like a Tommy gun, from Italy.

Get What You Want

The story of one woman's dream for a wedding dress made of swan

Leda and the Swan

Make Your Own Luck

Mermaid

Make Your Own Luck
ft. Fisherman Phil
photographs by George Hayford-Taylor

Just Because Its In Print, Doesn't Mean Its The Gospel

Seeing Is Believing


Chance Would Be A Fine Thing


Anything For A Quiet Life


Saved By Angels

Ornamentalise Yourself: Making of the Coin Medal

Coin medal in solid brass depicting regal side profile and reads:

The Invention Of Tradition.

The initial embossing over a photograph into sheet tin over plasticine. Melting wax in a bain-marie to make a positive coin cast. The white wax retains some of the black plasticine. More detail added to the face and hair. A sand cast is then made from the wax mold into which the molten brass is poured. Imprint of the coin in the burnt sand. The two finished medals: The earlier with less detail and heavier at approximately quarter kilo of brass. Above is from a more refined later design. The original broke in casting leaving the cracks. The difference between the coins gives the impression of two editions of the Queen's face during her reign.

The Art Of War