days in the life of an art jewelry creator
Posted in Out and About on Feb 5th, 2010
I took a few pairs of earrings, disassembled them, and reassembled parts into these prototype earrings. My idea is to have smaller square wire jump rings on the earring frames which are currently sitting on the workbench ready to be filled. Flexible, swinging earrings similar to these prototypes are one version I’m mulling, and another [...]
Posted in Inspirations, environment on Aug 16th, 2009
Video taken on the dive that inspired the “Swirling Schools” necklace and earring designs.
Posted in processes on Jun 16th, 2009
After setting oval white topaz stones in a new earring design, I decided to also set blue topaz and garnets in the same design; and to make a pendant with one of those stones in the ‘same’ design. So, I treed up some waxes after adding more of the little ball features onto the wax [...]
Posted in New Designs, processes on May 19th, 2009
Posted in New Designs, processes on Apr 1st, 2009
My recent experience in a chasing and repousse’ cuff bracelet workshop was very enjoyable. Davide Bigazzi is a great instructor; the three of us all learned a lot and two of us walked away with bracelets that were almost done. The other Sherry in the workshop finished hers! I spent the day after the workshop finishing mine. [...]
Posted in New Designs on Jan 6th, 2009
A fresh iteration of the “Bottleneck” ring design. All peridots. Four flush set and one prong set. The ring is ‘fresh’ because it’s less than 2 hours old. Please pardon the hot spots and other issues with the photos. I’ll take a nice photo for the website someday….
Posted in New Designs on Sep 9th, 2008
Practice rings for flush and channel setting diamond cut stones. Each piece is slightly different and, when the stones are set, each one will definitely be unlike the others. The rings are sitting atop the “Creative Stonesetting” book by John Cogswell. In addition to being a nice resource for pictures and drawings, the informative text [...]