In this short class you’ll acquire the fundamental skills to communicate your jewelry design ideas effectively and consistently in pencil, using both templates and complementary professional equipment.

CLASS CONTENT
You will begin with exercises for applying pencil. This lays the foundation for color rendering the fundamental metal shapes (flat, domed and flat curved) in white and yellow metal. This method is extended onto metal texture and compound forms. Next, you will work on laying out and rendering faceted stones, starting with colorless faceted stones and moving onto colored stones, including melée and conventional settings. You will learn how to render them realistically in color. The next topic is rendering transparent cabochons, which builds upon the technique used for faceted colored stones. Opaque cabochons are next and you can choose which kind of stones you wish to render during design lab time. Round pearls extend from the opaque cabochons and the challenge here lies with getting saturation levels right. The final topic covered during this short intensive class is rings in elliptical view.

INTRODUCTION TO THE 9 WEEK JEWELRY DESIGN CERTIFICATE COURSE
Many students take this class as an introduction to the 9 week Jewelry Design Certificate course. All topics featured in this short class are developed and expanded upon during the 9 week program which also introduces students to the use of line, direction, shape, texture, mass, space, and color using professional artists’ watercolor paints, and also covers jewelry design history and the major design styles. Please contact us direct for further details and prices if you wish to take the Quick Design class as an introduction to the GIA Jewelry Design Certificate.