Alyssa files her metal cut shapes. Filing helps to perfect the shape and free the edges of roughness. Victoria demonstrates how to dap for Alyssa. Alyssa starts the dapping process with a large circle. Careful to make sure the shape does not move while hammering. Alyssa continues the dapping...
Author Archives: Nancy Wynn
In-process Critiques on Shrine Project
Over the past two days, I have been working one-on-one with the students. This personal attention was needed, since they have been focused on learning jewelry-making techniques. Learning these techniques was very important to creating successful work, but at the same time it took time and energy away from design and...
Follow-up Reflection
The teacher, Ms. Burns, required the students to complete another reflective analysis sheet on their Shrine project. You could think of it as an in-process written critique of their work’s concept. It is important to do this with the students, since the first week was all about learning new jewelry...
Learning techniques for Shrine Project
Students learned the following jewelry making techniques this week. These links are from YouTube. When we have new videos of the students working we will upload them here. Riveting Link Dappled Circle Disk Cutting Rolling Mill and Impressions
Reflective Analysis for Shrine Project
The students started their Shrine jewelry project. In a previous post, the project instructions outlined the intent, the process, and various techniques to be utilized. Images were shared of shrine jewelry created by professionals I feel it is so important to show students visuals. Expectations, clear communication about materials, and...
Taking Original Photos
For Project 2, Personal Shrines, it is required that students create original artwork. One of the exercises we gave the students was to travel around their school and photograph Design Elements and Principles. We provided this handout as they worked. After they finished they were required to “pin” all the photos to...
Project 2: Personal Shrines
This week Project 2 has begun. Over the weekend, the students were asked to write about who they would like to “enshrine.” They could choose a person, place or thing. Though some students asked if they could enshrine “fear” or other emotions. We thought that was interesting and the teacher,...
Some Final Results: Project 1
This first project, Scrabble Tile Bracelet, was really interesting in many ways. We had some hiccups with technology, but creatively solved them and moved forward. Overall, the students in the class are “good thinkers” and they synthesized the information we presented to them very well (in reference to the Aesthetics, Identity and...
Production of the bracelet
Once the students have settled on their images, they begin the process of adhering them to the tiles, sealing the tiles and then threading and finishing the bracelet. This process is labor intensive and takes a few days. The teacher, Ms. Kelly Burns has provided the Project 1 handout here that...
Working with their images
The students have completed working with their images using technology. They used Photoshop or Google Draw. Some students drew their own images; some used their own photos and changed them; and some adapted photos they found (for this last one we discussed how important it is not to take or...