Wax Carving Techniques for Jewelry Design
Spruing Ready for Casting into Metal 2
A course by Elsa Tierney , Jewelry Designer and Maker
About the video: Spruing Ready for Casting into Metal 2
Overview
“Once you have your piece cast in the metal of your choice, there will be some cleaning up to do in the metal. Let's see how to do it.”
In this video lesson Elsa Tierney addresses the topic: Spruing Ready for Casting into Metal 2, 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
“ Spruing Ready for Casting into Metal. Now, I'll polish up the surface with different-grade mops. These have different grades of grit in them and we will work down from one grit to the next grit to the final one and get a nice polished surface with them. For this, we'll use the polishing motor. This is my jeweller's polishing motor and you can buy and use any Dremel as long as it's not too slow and it has a little bit of action. You can buy them from most hardware stores or art shops and they are relatively affordable. Also, online and I'll put some details in the Resources. I'll start wit...”
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Course summary for: Wax Carving Techniques for Jewelry Design
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Category
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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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