Visiting TOAE (Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition)

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TOAE – Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition – is one of the biggest event in Toronto. Exhibition happens every year in July at Nathan Phillips Square, where is in front of Toronto City Hall in downtown.

The truth is, I’ve never been there before till now for past 9 years in Canada.. Real reason that I paid to visit the exhibition was my friend who participated the exhibition this year. (Plus, it’s free! haha) She, Ivanne Binetruy, was one of my colleagues from college and now she’s trying to be a professional jewellery designer by her own. Even though she was the mother of two children, she was always passionated student at school and I had no doubt that she’ll be always the best in her profession field and now, here she is, representing her own works. :)

There were so many things to watch, but I visited Ivanne’s booth first to congrats her very first exhibition after graduated from school. :)

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And guess what? She got ‘Jewellery Student Award’ from the exhibition! What did I say? She’s still the best student here, haha. (She graduated this year, but she was student when she applied for this exhibition.)

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My personal favourite from her works: the ‘Diamond’ series on the left side and ‘Candy Child’ series on the right side. ‘Candy Child’ series are playful and brilliant too. Those colourful particles are actually children’s toy – sticky and easy to form so you can take it out from silver pendant or ring and change to other colour whenever you want. :)

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When that little lady saw the ‘Candy Child’ series, she said “I have that toy too, I know this!” As a mother of two, Ivanne was good at handling children at the exhibition. Maybe I should learn from her sometime later.. Haha. Quick promotion here! Ivanne just opened her website so you can see her works at here: http://www.ivannebinetruy.com/ She’s currently in France – her home country – but will back in Canada after summer and do some more works so please keep visit the website if you are interested in customized unique jewellery. :)

After visiting her booth, I took personal time to look around the exhibition. So many interesting and amazing works caught my eye but I couldn’t take other booths’ photos due to the privacy issues. (I got permission from Ivanne for this of course. She said, “You know I like to share stuffs with people!”) However, I took some photos of view of the exhibitions.

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Hope you could see how big this exhibition was. The tall building in the last photo is the new Toronto City Hall. The old one is just beside of this new building, across the road. That water is turning to the ice field in winter so people can enjoy skating here. :)

I spent more than 3 hours at the exhibition and later, seems like it’ll be raining so I decided to stay in the coffee shop for awhile to take some rest.

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It was my first time wearing this shoes and to be honest, it was hard to take a long walk with this.. :( Still, I cannot let it stay at home because I love to wearing them. Actually when I took this photo, I remembered little saying from drama ‘Sex and the City’: “The fact is, sometimes it’s hard to walk in single women shoes. That’s why we need really special ones now and then, to make the walk little more fun.”

Me? Yes, I’m single and maybe that’s why I’m so into this sentence.. ;)

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About 10 minutes later I stayed in the cafe, it was raining as I expected.

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This is the old city hall across the road. Personally, I like this building more than the new one. This photo was my first trial with ‘retro’ colour version from the camera and I kinda liked the colour. I think the colour matches good with this antique building. :)

Guess this would be my last post in this blog. I might come back later though, if I have something interesting that I want to share it with you guys. Hope you enjoyed my postings from this blog. :)

Bonus photo!

I’m sorry if any one of them see this photo and doesn’t like it but I couldn’t resist to take this shot because they were such a beautiful couple.

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Hope they’re still having great time together… :)

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Autumn Leaves’ – Final Project

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For jewellery program at my school, we have to clean up the bench that I worked after all classes are done. We also take back all projects that we’ve made throughout the term when we do bench clean up. The best project that I liked for this term is the last project that I made from ‘Metal Forming II’ class. To be honest, the finishing is not perfect and the construction is not perfectly done – I was short of time.. Well, can’t blame on time because I was bit lazy – but I like the design personally so I’m being brave here to show you my work..!

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This is my rough design concept. I learned ‘anticlastic’ and ‘folding’ methods from this class and I had to apply the skills that I’ve learned. (Anticlastic: Curved in opposite ways in two directions on a surface; from ‘Wiktionary’) So I tried to apply ‘anticlastic’ method for the round entrance of the necklace, and apply ‘folding’ method for the leaves.

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Middle of the progression! I’m on progress for anticlastic entrance, folding leaves, and chain. See the rectangular brass? That’s the beginning of the leaf. I had to anneal that plain brass to make it soft enough that I can fold in half just like the brass leaf above it. After I fold it, I cut out the exterior so it can look like a leaf, and then anneal it again with huge torch in silversmith room. When the brass became soft enough, I hammer the brass with forging hammer to not only stretching the metal but also to put the texture which will look like a leaf. After done hammering, anneal the metal again with torch and unfold the leaf – mostly by hand, but brass is harder than copper or silver so needed some pliers for help. Then, you’ll see the leaf look like the silver one on the top!

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This is ‘demo’ leaf that I demonstrated with copper before I work on with silver and brass. Shape wasn’t bad, but my professor worried about the sharp and cracked edges because it would be hurt the cloth or person’s skin who wears it. Personally, I liked the cracked edge since it gives more ‘leaf’ feeling but it’s unwearable according my professor so I had to let that go. Strange colour pattern on the back appeared because of the heat. I kind of like it. :)

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Jump rings for the chain! I first have to anneal long silver wire – approximately 100cm per chain, I guess – and then roll it on the small round mandrel so it can form the spring figure looks like on the right side of the photo. After that, cut the spring silver wire using saw to make individual jump rings. Now all I have to do is connect those jump rings one by one. Since my design has three long chains, it took some time to connect jump rings one by one but I actually liked it because I can work that part at home. :)

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Leaves are done! Except the stone setting on the silver leaf, I’ll do later. Synthetic corundum with red colour – probably ruby – is going to be set using tube setting method. :)

Well, those are some progression photos. Now, below photo is the final result that I came up with.

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To let some people know just in case who do not understand how this works as a necklace…

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Below photos are some close up shots.

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And that’s it! Hope you all enjoyed to see what I’ve done. :) I’m going to make more pieces next year so I’ll try to show more of my work IF I’m still a blogger here till then… Haha.

Bonus! My brother took a shot for me when I wore it. I thought perhaps I should make bigger leaf or smaller round entrance after I saw the photo, but.. Hope you’ll enjoy this one too! :)

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All photos, above, have been shot with the Samsung ST1000(CL65), which has been provided by Samsung Digital Imaging Co., Ltd.