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Enamel Project

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  To start of the enameling project, I made a sample of a champlave ant, to see if I liked the look of it. I realized while making that sample I probably wouldn't have enough time to make the amount of ants I originally wanted, but I liked how it turned out so I ended up with a goal of less ants.  I began by cutting out five ants, attempting to get those skinny legs without making the copper too thin. I then drilled out the cells of the body to later be wet packed with enamel. I then filed the inside of the cells, and covered the back of each ant with hard solder. This took forever because of the small legs, but finally I got them all to flow and ready to sweat solder I then cut out small backplates for each one, and while doing this I accidentally left one of my ants in the blades way, and accidentally cut it in half. I ended up cutting out another one quickly because I liked having five. One by one, I then soldered each one to a backplate. I had a little trouble at first swe...
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Rebecca D Enamel

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  Rebecca D Enamel is an artist I came across on instagram. While I follow many jewelers work not many work with enamel, so I went looking for some and was amazed by her work. Her work also gave me a lot of ideas of how to design our first sample and how to think about filling spaces with enamel. Rebecca works with hot enamel and has been doing so since she was sixteen. She was taught various techniques and her miniature work is insane. Her pieces are amazingly detailed considering their size and the process she is working with. She aims for her work to be unique and for them to be considered wearable works of art. Like the artist I looked at for color, I love how she creates art that can be shown in the house, or worn. Each one looks like a mini stained glass window, or painting, and every one blows my mind.
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Danielle Embry

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  Danielle Embry is a jewelry artist from Arizona, who uses metal, enamel, beads, and other materials such as wood to create these sort of ethereal pieces, which often remind me of natural objects or occurrences. One of her recent collections “making place” consists of pieces titled “desert bloom”, “shifting sands, empty promise”, and “bramble”. On her website, these pieces are displayed hung on photographs of landscapes they look natural in.In some cases, it looks like one was made for the other, for example, the work with the red stripe against the photo with the matching stripe.  I haven’t seen jewelry displayed in this way by any other jeweler, and I think it adds a lot for the buyer, when it’s not being worn it can be kept against this photo on the wall or anywhere else. I really enjoy the forms she creates in her works, and the way she combines these forms and contrasts one with another. She then adds to the form she has made with beads and drapes them in different ways ...
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Carin Jones

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  Carin Jones has inspired me for a long time with her metalworking and incorporation of animal bones and gemstones into her wearable pieces. Jones’ website describes the pairing of these materials and says this, “ While, at first glance this may seem contradictory, the partnership challenges the audiences inclination to undervalue one material and overvalue the other. It clarifies the equality of elements- born of stardust and returning to stardust- and emphasizes the true value of the natural world.”  Her background in zoology and years of collecting and cataloguing specimen motivates her to use found bones, and her experience having a father who worked as an architect gave her interest in shapes and how they interact with each other. I find that this is very apparent in her latest work, in parti cular the attention paid to whi ch bone to pair with what type of stone and how to use metal to highlight that with shape. I also think this may inspire her approa ch to larger...
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