Coral ring

I was given a ring with a coral to re-design, the guy wanted it to be rounded,by this he meant domed.He wanted the ring to have a swirly pattern, he sent me a picture of something that he liked.He had taken the picture from the movie that he had been watching.

It is my first time trying to make a ring like this.I wasnt sure how i was going to make it.All I know is that I want to include mehndi in some way to this piece so that it becomes apart of tech work.

I decided to make this ring in a way I feel is theraputic.The only way I see this ring being created is by carving out off wax and adding on wax rolled patterns.

I this way the ring realtes to mehndi. Mehndi application process I feel is very theraputic in that im am relaxed whist applying mehndi onto someone or something.Just in the same way I feel wax rolling is a theraputic process.

Mehndi process also relates to filling in spaces just in the same way im going to file a wax ring with spaces into which I will fill the wax  rolled elements.

Still making application tools

 I have been making tools.I need a tool that will allow me to apply wax onto a surface using the same application technique that is used to apply mehndi.

So far ive made my own plastic piping bags and tried melting it by placing it into a basin of boiling water.Water began seeping into the bag and mixing with the melted wax.When the wax is in its liquid state it just spills out of the cone. In order to draw using the cone the wax needs to slightly cool.By this stage the wax begins to cool very quickly so its hard to have even a quick pattern done.

the syringe with and without the needle worked in the same way the cone works.The wax needs to slightly cool from its liquid state but to maintain that temperiture is impossible with these tools.

 I used a tea jug to melt the wax on the stove and pour into the bottle that i made with a nozzle.I tried melting the wax in the bottle in a microwave,this did not work,the wax took way to long to start melting as opposed to a stove,and couldnt see properly at what was happening through the microwave screen.

I havnt yet found a tool that works successfully in applying wax.I feel as though this is holding me back from making jewellery. I need to start making jewellery. Im going to find another technique of making mehndi jewellery so that I dont spend the year just trying to create a tool and then not knowing what to do with it.