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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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! |
| Beginning Metalsmithing student, Tiffany, progressed very well through her learning about metal, tools and how to work with both. She went from basic hand tools and flat sheet metal, making a "universe looking" pendant from copper and aluminum, to becoming less afraid of the drill press while drilling holes in sterling tubes for her pendant and earring sets and finally chasing, texturing, tube riveting and bending sterling silver sheet for a ring for her husband. Tiffany did a great job and was very happy and proud of what she learned. We look forward to seeing her again in the Soldering and MORE Metalsmithing classes! |
| Two views of a copper button made by More Metalsmithing student Nancy Adams. One word...F A B U L O U S ! ! ! I especially love that she continued NOT making jewelry. |
| Left to Right 1. Ginny found a bottle without a cap 2. Ginny made a copper cap 3. View one of Ginnys' cap 4. View two of Ginnys' cap LOVE that Ginny didn't feel like she had to make jewelry. She found the bottle at an estate sale |
| Check out this cool pair of earrings and great pendant made by high school student Chase Shenfield! They're awesome! It was amazing how prolific Chase was. He made three pair of earrings, two pendants and a ID tag for his kitten Terra. All in just the first four hours of Beginning Metalsmithing! WOW! Great Job Chase! You rock! |
| Uncommon beauty in metal art |
| What a wonderful pendant made by Beginning Metalsmithing student Catherine High. She build up FOUR layers of material and riveted them together using copper, aluminum and found objects. Great piece of jewelry! |
| I love love love this design created by Beginning Metalsmithing student Susan Elliot! Susan combined sawing, piercing, texturing, riveting and fabricating her own bale in copper and aluminum on this fabulous shawl pin/pendant on the left that looks like a mask. AWESOME! She had so much fun that she decided to take the Beginning class AGAIN with her visiting niece. In that class, she made another shawl pin (on the right) using several skills she continued to refine and added a patina and beautiful hand brushed finish. Fantastic! |
| Joy Stevens, Susan's niece, created this WONDERFUL aquatic sculpture in the Beginning Metalsmithing class. She used every technique she learned to create her fish, sea snail and seaweed and grasses which she then set into a piece of drift wood. LOVE IT! Happy future smithing in Ohio! |
| MORE Metalsmithing! student, Brenda Hill created this beautiful oak leaf pendant in sterling silver and copper. She mill printed the silver with the oak leaf pattern and sweat soldered her hand sawn oak leaves and copper bail. Finally, she added a patina for a beautiful affect! Wear it with pride, Brenda. It's beautiful! |
| Brenda's best friend Sharon, has been taking the classes with her. Sharon made these great earrings by mill printing her design from her own etched texture plate. The layers of patina silver and copper made for some terrific earrings! Great job, Sharon! Now the ladies will go home and practice their new skills and get ready for the next class Even MORE Metalsmithing! |
2010 Summer Apprentice,
Jordann Lindsay, learned
more working all summer than
she would have if she'd just
taken classes! Two thirds of
the way through the summer,
she fabricated this
BEAUTIFUL rose as a gift to
her mom. Lucky mom!!!!!
Jordann Lindsay, learned
more working all summer than
she would have if she'd just
taken classes! Two thirds of
the way through the summer,
she fabricated this
BEAUTIFUL rose as a gift to
her mom. Lucky mom!!!!!
| Fortunately for Micki Monroe, she got to enjoy a tailored MORE Metalsmithing class as a private student. She learned so much she said she couldn't be happier if she was twins! Check out her fabulous necklace she made soldering her own chain and the great job she did on her tube spaced rivets! Great reason to get dressed up and go out to dinner! |
Take a look at this
incredibly stunning
piece designed and
fabricated by Beginning
Metalsmithing student
Ron Myhre. Working with
incredibly stunning
piece designed and
fabricated by Beginning
Metalsmithing student
Ron Myhre. Working with
| his pierced copper tree and the lovely textures he put on it, he then riveted it to a piece of brass with a thin slice of spoulted maple in between. GEORGOUS! |
| Arianne Myhre, Ron's daughter, made this beautiful sun symbol of textured and pierced copper and brass with sterling silver rivets. The textured designs had such a wonderful look of radiance! Fantastic! |