[Jewelry making - Article 00022] - Re: [Orchid] Looking Back to the Future

[Karen Bahr]

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Richard

>     I personally feel that it can be a touchy subject to bring up, as
>     many are faced with the dilemma, as in, after you take a class
>     from someone, how do you take the technique you learned and create
>     work that does not look like the work of the person you study
>     with.

    I too faced this dilemma when I had finished my first class of
    learning to make silver jewellery. One lesson learned in class was my
    first ring, a now simple split-shank ring with a cabochon 7mm stone
    my boyfriend had cut out of some Holly Blue Agate. By the time I had
    put the ring together and set the stone the bezel was pitted and
    looked awful. I showed this to Mike, nearly in tears, and asked what
    to do. He simply put a round burr into the Foredom and gently added
    to the dents around the stone so it had a pattern while explaining
    that even if it was not originally planned there are ways to make it
    look like it was planned. 

    After finishing this and a couple of more classes with Mike I found
    that my jewellery was looking a lot like his style of jewellery which
    was distinctive enough that even I recognized it as such. So I went
    and took some more classes by other teachers and learned other styles
    and techniques and developed my own style. This style by the way, is
    ever evolving as I experience more, learn more and understand more
    about both the world around me and myself. 

Karen Bahr - Karen's Artworx
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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