Wax Carving Techniques for Jewelry Design
Tools and Workspace
A course by Elsa Tierney , Jewelry Designer and Maker
About the video: Tools and Workspace
Overview
“What will you need for creating a ring? Here I will show you all the essential tools and what the different tools are good for. I will also show you some extra ones you might like to consider and tell you which tools to avoid. ”
In this video lesson Elsa Tierney addresses the topic: Tools and Workspace, which is part of the Domestika online course: Wax Carving Techniques for Jewelry Design. Explore the ancient art of wax carving and discover creative techniques to design, measure, sculpt, size, and finish bespoke pieces of jewelry from scratch.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Tools and Workspace In this lesson, I'll show you all the tools and materials you'll need for this course. For the design stage, all you will need is a protractor, pencil, graph paper, tracing paper, and a nice ruler. You can get these easily from any stationary shop. These are all the essential tools that we'll be using for the wax carving course. This one here is a ring sizer. We'll be using this for shaping the inside hole of the ring. This is one of my favourite tools. This is the double ended file. It has a rough and smooth part and we'll be using that a lot for carving and shaping. ...”
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Course summary for: Wax Carving Techniques for Jewelry Design
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Category
Craft, Fashion -
Areas
Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Fashion Design, Jewelry Design
Elsa Tierney
A course by Elsa Tierney
Elsa Tierney is a jewelry designer and maker specializing in lost wax casting for jewelry and sculptures. Her fascination with jewelry and artifacts from all around the world, or “treasure” as she would call them, was ignited from a young age on trips with her parents to London-based museums. As an adult, she decided to turn this passion into a career, receiving a degree in fine art and later, a National Diploma in Silversmithing & Allied Crafts from Sir John Cass School of Art & Design.
Her pieces incorporate influences from modern art that she combines with traditional jewelry-making methods. She is particularly proud of her marionette piece, which boasts the working attributes of a puppet on strings, but can also be worn as a necklace. Her work has been exhibited across the UK, and she is a two-time winner of the Bronze Goldsmiths Award in the 3D Modellers category. Other accolades include the Silver Goldsmiths Award in the QVC category in 2016 and Gold in the Raw Pearls category in 2015.
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