About

Jewelry illustration is an excellent skill to have in your tool box. Working out ideas and 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 different harnesses of graphite 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 3-part class is open to all skill levels. Class one will cover the architectural layout style of illustration in both black and white, and color. Class two will cover illustration of gemstones and introduce perspective (3/4 view) illustration. Finally, class three will bring all these skills together.

Tool List students can 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, white,

6” ruler

Geometric templates

Tracing paper

Instructor: Nanz Aalund

After serving as a fine jewelry designer and marketing consultant for Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus and Tiffany & Co., Nanz Aalund taught jewelry metals classes at the University of Washington and at the Art Institute in Seattle. She authored the 40 biographies in the book Masters: Gold (published by Lark Books in 2009) and served as technical author and associate editor for Art Jewelry Magazine. Currently, Nanz is writing an Apprenticeship Guide for Manufacturing Jewelers & Suppliers of America, due for publication in spring of 2017.