Artist Statement
I love to wear jewelry and my mom and I would stay up until midnight making jewelry when I was younger and she sometimes still wears it to this day. I hope to learn more about jewelry making and be able to make cute, fashionable jewelry
This semester, I learned how to work with metals and different materials, sawing materials, soldering, polishing, and more. My favorite piece is my necklace from the art noveau century. I think its so simple and elegant.
Exempt from: Pewter Cuttlefish Casting
This is my tab setting piece. For this project, I learned how to do tab setting. I learned interior and exterior tabs and how to make them look neat.
This is my etched initial piece. For this assignment I learned how to etch and what it does and how it works.
These are my brooches. I made a checkered piece, a sunflower, and an umbrella. This was the first assignment of the class so I was still learning a lot and figuring out the gist of things.
This is my soldered copper ring with bezel. I struggled a lot with this piece trying to solder the pieces together and making it look nice, but I think I did a decent job. I like simple jewelry so I wanted to do something smaller simplistic. This was the first assignment I used solder for so it was a little hard for me at first but got easier the more I did it.
This necklace is from Art Noveau century. I chose to do this because that style is very simple and I wanted to do an elegant but simple necklace. During this assignment I learned how to make a chain and use jump rings. I also etched and used the hydraulic press to cut out the circles for the shapes of my necklace.
This is pierce, saw, and rivet jewelry piece. this was our first real piece with sawing and tools. It was really hard sawing the swirls out because they got really thin and fragile at the end, but the rest of it turned out nicely. The rivets were really difficult to do and to get straight in and look nice and clean, but the more I did, the better they looked.
This is my ceramic piece. This assignment was probably one of my favorites. It was so fun to make because it was fun to experiment with clay and make whatever we wanted. I made a necklace with clay "beads."
This is my sculpture. This assignment really challenged me, but it was really fun. It was difficult to try to incorporate five of the different techniques that we learned this year, but I used sawing, wires, soldering, etching, and the moving thing. It isn't exactly how I was expecting it to turn out, but I'm pretty happy with how it looks.