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| Student Project Photo Gallery |
| Beginning Metalsmithing student Carol Blakely created this beautiful copper and brass brooch with rivets and embellished it with turquoise and carnelian. Wonderful! Fall 2007 class |
| Beginning Metalsmithing student Kate Ringland made two stylish pendants. She practiced riveting and used copper, brass and aluminum. Good job Kate! Fall 2007 class |
| Beginning Metalsmithing student Tricia Dempsey made this fabulous bracelet by texturing and piercing copper. Then she strung her other passion, turquoise! Wow! Fall 2007 class |
| Tricia Dempsey also made this pretty pendant by piercing and chasing her copper, then riveted it to the textured brass. Looks great, Tricia! Fall 2007 class |
| Beginning Metalsmithing student Mary Marsh, who had some metals experience, made this stunning brooch and earrings from scrapes she'd already been collecting. Learning riveting was her goal. She sure succeeded, didn't she? Winter 2008 class |
| All photos taken by Pamela Bellesen |
| Take a look at this! This beautiful bracelet was made by MORE Metalsmithing! student Lucia Olson. She created a texture plate with her own sand dollar design. Then she mill printed it with a rolling mill. She then seized the edges for a well worn look, it was anti-classtic raised, a post soldered on to set a pearl. And SHE did it!! FABULOUS piece of jewelry! Good job Lucia! Design was a modification of Pamela Bellesen's Series Terra collection. Winter 2008 class #1 |
| Check out this wonderfully playful Scarab made by Beginning Metalsmithing student Teresa Merrill. She used several new skills learned in the class including sawing and filing, piercing, mill printing, raised and tube riveting and tab hinging. Absolutely JOYFUL! Winter 2008 class |
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| Beginning Metalsmithing student Ginny Bacon made this wonderful pendant by cutting piercing and filing brass and aluminum and then weaving pearts on copper wire. Great job! Fall 2007 class |
| Ginny also made this beautiful scene of leaping dolphin using some of the same techniques as her pendant. Then she framed the whole thing!. What a great idea! Fall 2007 class |
| Ginny Bacon took the MORE Metalsmithing class and on her second attempt at sweat soldering her dogs onto a textured sterling silver background. Then she oxidized them and gave them a brushed finish for a delightfully playful post style earrings. How fun! Winter 2008 class #2 |
| Look at what Beginning Metalsmithing student Nancy Adams made in the Fall 2007 class! She said she always wanted to have a view of the Olympic Mountains and now she does. She used her new skills of sawing, filing, oxidizing and tube riveting to create this wonderfully demensional piece to hang in her kitchen window. We loved that she didn't feel obligated to make jewelry! What a stunning piece of metal work, Nancy! GREAT job!! |
| Teresa Merrill enjoyed the Beginning Metalsmithing class so much she took the soldering workshop and then signed up for the MORE! Metalsmithing class. In the class, she fabricated this fabulous!! dragonfly pendant and chain. She enjoyed incorporating the new skills she was learning in class with the ones from the beginning class. In this wonderful piece, she mail her own jump rings and chain, which is fully soldered and textured. She also made her own texture plate of dragonfly designs that she used to texture her metals in the rolling mill. Teresa also pierced and riveted as well as learned how to give her piece the beautifully colorful heat patina background! Stop by the Magnolia Cafe in Poulsbo and tell her how much you like her piece! |