Dodgie Dator Designs: Symbolic Duo

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I am an artist based here in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. I am the in house designer for McGrath Diamonds Ltd. This is my blog to see exquisite wearable fine art DGZ style and to share some exciting things living my life in the creative world. My main design website is

www.dodgiedator.com/designs

I love to paint and create photographs of landscapes and life as it unfolds, my portfolio of images consists of landscapes and art photographs represented by 2 of Winnipeg's finest art galleries, Birchwood Art Gallery and Wayne Arthur Gallery. My massive collection of people photographs completes my ever growing portfolio. My passion for photography, specialty in on-location lifestyle portraits and my extensive event photography experience are fused to deliver a fresh perspective for your wedding photographs. Delivering a storybook that relives those subtle moments and artworks for generations to enjoy. Pls visit my photography website www.dgzphotos.com .

For my photography blog www.blog.dgzphotos.com , here I share what's new and exciting in my life as a freelance photographer.

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Dodgie Dator
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Friday, January 21, 2011

Symbolic Duo

This set of rings represent the heritage/lineage of my clients. It's their wedding bands and they had the symbols all specified and it was just up to me to make it up. This project is not a very technically challenging but the fact that it will symbolize the lives of my clients I have to pay outmost care on representing the symbols in the finish piece. Most of my pieces starts from a hand drawn artwork and this was not any different but I sent it to my casting house to have a computer redering done up prior to preparing the wax. I just want it to be perfect and a computer model is a lot more precise than any of my hand drawn artwork. With precise lines and symbols that needs to be 100% exact, I had to take that extra step to assure the success of the project.

The symbols include a tortoise, feathers, a bear paw and a wheel. I started a pencil drawing and enlarging each symbol to make sure that my artistic representation of each of the symbols are exact. The computer model just put all these drawings into a more 3 dimensional image.