Jewelry Design - Brenda Smith
[10/14, 10/28]
This class is for students who have taken previous jewelry-making classes and have learned the technical skills required for their preferred jewelry fabrication method. This class takes you to the next step by using those techniques to create your own designs.
The objective of this class is to stimulate creativity resulting with more interesting and creative jewelry designs. Some say that you either “have it or not” as far as creativity goes. However, there are design principles that can certainly be learned and applied that guarantee a greater amount of success in creative design.
In this class, we broaden our “tool box” of resources through a series of creative exercises that expand our ability to come up with new, more creative designs.
Some design principles explored are: the use of contrast; texture, size relationships, repetition and color. Contrast is needed to create interest and reduce the possibility of a “static” design. Others are symmetry and asymmetry. Symmetrical design is not nearly as interesting as asymmetrical design. We will explore color principles and learn how a color wheel helps when making color choices, how secondary and tertiary colors interact with our design, for instance.
We will use tools such as a sketchbook, tracing paper, colored pencils, and for non-threatening 3-D exploration, foils and clay.
Through exercises that force us to NOT use our usual methods of creating and decision-making, we discover surprise shapes and forms than can be combined to create designs we might not have thought of otherwise.
You are encouraged to experiment, push and refine your designs by asking yourself, “What if I did this or that?”
Good design is not a linear equation but an evolutionary process. Join us for this intensive, exciting week of exploration.
Lab Fee:US$95Prerequisites:none
Examples of work done in this class
