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Jewelry illustration is an excellent skill to have in your tool box. Working out ideas to express design choices with paper and pencil is a valuable communication tool. With jewelry illustration you can design projects using techniques or gemstones you have yet to acquire.

Learn to work with templates and  graphite with different levels of hardness to create top, side, and edge views of jewelry items. Discover how to illustrate highlights and shadows to simulate gold, silver, faceted or cabochon gemstones. It would be helpful if participants brought jewelry items of their own to draw. 

This one-day class is open to all skill levels and broken into 3-sections. Section one will cover the architectural layout style of illustration in both black and white, and color. Section two will cover illustration of gemstones and introduce perspective (3/4 view) illustration. Section three will bring all these skills together by adding highlights and shading to the illustrations.

Details:

• This is a beginning level class.  
• $10 materials fee will be added to class fee when you register.
• Please bring a bag lunch. BARN has a refrigerator to store your lunch, located on the lower level.
• Kits are available for purchase during the class.  Please bring $10 to class if interested.
• Students please bring:
• • 2 mechanical pencils using 0.05 lead
  • •  1 with 2H lead 
    •  1 with B lead

  • Prisma color pencils in yellow, brown, gray, red, blue, green, and white.
    

    
    

Instructor: Nanz Aalund’s wide ranging career as a jewelry designer, goldsmith, and educator, began with high school shop classes. After serving as a fine jewelry designer and marketing consultant for Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, and Tiffany & Co., Aalund taught jewelry and metals classes at the University of Washington and at the Art Institute in Seattle. Earning a Masters of Fine Art (MFA/Metals) and a Masters of Education/College and Technical Teaching Curriculum (CTTC). Her work has been exhibited both national and international since the 1980s. She authored the book, "Masters Gold,” published by Lark Books in 2009 and her most recent publication, “A Jeweler’s Guide to Apprenticeship” published in 2017 for MJSA, received a Silver Medal in the national AM&P Excel Awards, in 2018.

Nanz Aalund, certifications@bainbridgebarn.org

Contact: Jewelry.Lead@BainbridgeBARN.org