05.30.07
Posted in Sketches at 11:51 am by Jen
My mother has asked me to make her a brooch similar to my Seasons Brooches that I did for my father-in-law. One of her favorite flowers are irises, so she asked for an iris brooch. Like with the smaller marriage-of-metals piece in my previous post, I first design it in Illustrator. Then I go into Photoshop and play around with the colors and see which combination looks best.
(The colors represent copper, brass, nickel & silver.)
I will send these pictures to my mother and see which she prefers.
We are moving in a week and a half, so I don’t know how much I will be able to work on my jewelry until then.
Edit: My mom chose the first one!! 
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05.24.07
Posted in Sketches at 3:12 pm by Jen
When I do a marriage of metals piece, I always re-do the design in Adobe Illustrator so that the lines are crisp and I can be as exact as possible.
I always have at least as many copies of the design as there are different metals (in this case there are only two kinds of metal), and then some extras in case I mess something up.
These are then cut out and rubber-cemented to the metal, and then the corrosponding sections are cut out (carefully) on the right metals.
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05.18.07
Posted in Sketches at 4:32 pm by Jen
After a couple weeks of being out of school, my muse has finally hit me and I feel like I am ready to get going with my work! I intend to continue with the fossil theme (see my Fossil Series). I am going to attempt to make the new pieces more practical for actual wear, rather than simply artistic, as well.
First is another Trilobite necklace. I need to explain that ever since my Intro to Metals course in college I have been in love with chain making. ESPECIALLY byzantine chains. Tiny byzantine chains. So I am going to try to merge this with my pieces that I make. All three of these sketches say “silver byz. chain”, pointing to a vague sketch of what looks more like a neckwire. This is just so I don’t have to kill myself with trying to draw the chain 
Next is another, MUCH simpler, Blastoid necklace and earring set. I have also fallen in love with the technique called “Marriage of Metals” - where you cut out sections in different types of metals and solder them all together, sort of like a jigsaw puzzle. I am incorporating that into this piece.
And lastly, a Blastoid necklace. I will be using a lot of chain for this piece, doing a sort of layered-chain look.
So there is a taste of what I will soon be working on in the studio!! Be sure to come back and see the in-progress progression!!
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