Thursday, 24 January 2013

Adaptation: The Kundan Chilli-Nettle

For the style of the garden, I am looking at different forms of Indian art.
The first one that I looked at was Kundan art
It's the art of putting enamelled mirrors in gold. It is seen more in jewellery these days in India as it is the 'costume jewellery' equivalent of diamond studded jewellery.
It was used to adorn mirrors in the palaces of Northern India during the Mughal rule.




SO
I applied the kundan style to a plant called the Cajophora Lateritia or the Common Chili-Nettle




So this is what I got:


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4 comments:

  1. Lydia Caplan24 January 2013 at 11:57

    I love the jewelled flowers/plants concept!! Reminded me of these -

    http://www.lydiacourteille.com/en/page-9-my-secret-garden.html

    http://www.lydiacourteille.com/en/page-17-to-cassandra.html

    Definitely think you should continue with this!

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  2. Le24 January 2013 at 15:01

    Oh my god! These are beautiful <3
    Thank you, Lydian =)

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  3. tutorphil24 January 2013 at 16:00

    Hey Le - I can tell you're excited about this project - and that's fab, because I want it and you to be wonderful! :) If I were you I'd also start trying things out in Maya - I don't know, just taking some simple sample forms and using different combinations of painted textures and shaders and glows etc to be-jewel them! Rather like when ceramicists create glaze tests even before they've created their objects:

    http://ceramicartsdaily.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/glazetestmake_4.jpg

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  4. Le25 January 2013 at 04:57

    Hello, Phil. Yes, I shall get working in Maya as well =)

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