[Jewelry making - Article 00223] - Re: [Orchid] How faithful are you to your sketches?

[Beth Wicker]

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    I almost never stick directly with what I sketched or had in my
    head. 2-D is not the same as 3-D, and what looked great on paper, may
    not turn out to translate quite as well to 3-D as I thought it would
    ;) I have never worried about having to stick to some pre-set plan.
    My sketches are a starting place, a way to grab an idea and save it
    to use at some future time. Quite often I will take a bit from one
    sketch, a bit from another, and a bit that I've never sketched and
    wind up with that for the final piece. Just as often the materials I
    am working with will "tell" me that they "want" me to do this or
    that, or not do this or that. Sounds weird, I know! But sometimes I
    am convinced ahead of time that I'm going to do a setting in silver,
    and I get my materials out, lay everything out, and the gemstones
    fuss at me and insist that they be set in gold - or vice versa. I
    can't explain it, but I do listen and go with the flow.

Beth in SC
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