This idea sound difficult for most people to draw and to me, even
more complex to build. Are you casting or fabricating?
marilyn
Hi marilyn:
This idea sound difficult for most people to draw and to me, even more complex to build. Are you casting or fabricating?
Well. it’s still in the very beginning stages of the idea, so it may
turn out to be very different from the picture I have in my head. I
like Brian’s idea of cutting pictures out of heavy paper and
arranging them. I’m going to try that for sure…it sounds pretty fun
actually. For a long time, I have had a problem with thinking of my
self as “just a beader”. One day, I had a thought that just because I
want to change my medium from beads to metal doesn’t mean I have to
abandon beads altogether (I know someone on the forum suggested this
to me months ago, but I’m extremely stubborn). Maybe I will try
making beads out of different sizes of tubing, or balling up silver
to make beads, or slicing square rod and then drilling it…I am
thinking of all the different ways to make beads. I love things with
holes in them. it’s fun for me. Or maybe they will be larger hollow
beads…flying saucer-shapes from 2 domes (yes, I will remember to
leave a tiny air-hole to let gas escape…see how much I have
learned?)…Any way, I don’t know for sure what it will look like. I
don’t have any casting in mind. When I get my workshop set up, I just
want to mess around…no deadlines, no juries, no clients…just me
and my new torch, making beads. If anyone else has any thoughts, I
would love to hear them. This whole conversation is really getting me
thinking again and it’s really time to make some fresh changes in my
work.
Thanks
Kim
better conceived(by me) if I had the ability to draw it. The pendant itself involves random and varying spheres, rectangles, squares...
Being one who replied to this thread - any paint program, not just
Photoshop, makes it very simple to draw circles, squares and such
with ease. You could draw a large circle or oval, being the necklace
itself, and scatter other parts upon it to your hearts content. This
being that you don’t actually need to draw it, you’re just looking
for the proportion of the shapes. A ruler and compass is the old
fashioned way, but it’s much more laborious, and in computer paint
there is undo instead of an eraser.
want to change my medium from beads to metal doesn’t mean I have to
abandon beads altogether (I know someone on the forum suggested
Jewelry, and Life, is not black and white. I’ve seen many beads that
were miniature works of art - granulated, fabricated with many hours
of work and fine craftsmanship - like $500 beads. The units in a
diamond necklace are not strictly, technically, beads, but they are
essentially beads in a way. A pendant is a “blank canvas”, as is a
ring, and as is a bead. Do what you want to do…
Don,
MN's triangles are beautiful. Some sides are rounded, some straight, some slightly concave, etc., but the proportions all appear natural and proper.
This is brilliant! I don’t cut stones, but most so many of my
designs have been loosely based on triangles and I have worked
sketches over and over, trying to get the proportions to appear
natural. If I wanted to do this as a design exercise, what is the
least expensive rough I could use?
Lisa Orlando
Albion, CA, US
Lisa, thanks for response. It is actually difficult to say because
prices vary so widely in different parts of the country for various
rough. But…I would say, try to get some obsidian slabs (they are
pretty much the same all over) and experiment a bit. Otherwise, any
of the jaspers/agates work well. Stay away from petrified wood for
now because it tends to be pretty fractured and often will not give
you large enough freeforms. Still…however it breaks…thats
natural isn’t it?
Good luck and hope it works for you. Cheers from Don at The Charles
Belle Studio in SOFL where simple elegance IS fine jewelry!