How To Draw Engraved On Gold Ring

The year 2022 has been total of ups and downs for all of u.s.a.! Today I desire to highlight a huge UP for me, which was learning the lost and traditional art of vivid cutpaw engraving.This year I took a week long "ornamental paw engraving" workshop with Jason Marchiafava at New Approach School for Jewelers in Franklin, TN. I had been wanted to take this course for years, and I finally had the opportunity to. Out of everything I have learned and been challenged with in 2022, learning to hand engrave has been a dream come true and my favorite skill that I take learned in quite a while.

You may exist wondering why I take always wanted to hand engrave jewelry. Well, I accept always loved drawing and illustrating. For every jewelry class I took while getting my Available of Fine Fine art at the University of Georgia, I besides took a drawing class. During my time getting my Master of Fine Fine art degree at Rhode Isle School of Pattern, I referenced drawing and line in most all of the jewelry I created. I have always been looking for ways to incorporate these two skills.

I have been drawing custom house and pet portraits for years. And this twelvemonth, I illustrated my first children's book (coming soon!) for Asheville, NC author, Beth Roberts.Equally much as I dearest these projects, I would love to more closely incorporate my drawings and jewelry.

When I was first exposed to hand engraving many years ago, I fell in love at first sight. The "bright cuts" into yellow golden were gorgeous. I knew right then that I had to learn how to do information technology. Equally a paw engraver, you can literally depict into metal. You can include ornate patterns, floral elements, vintage motifs and so much more than. I began learning how to do information technology by practicing traditional, ornamental patterns that yous may see forth the edges of vintage engagement rings. Later on a lot of practice, I began coming upwardly with my own drawings and figuring out how to interruption them downwardly to be hand engraved.

Paw engraving is done by using a serial of tiny cuts (literally shoveling out tiny shards of metal) with tiny very sharp metallic paw tools. I carefully dig the razer sharp corner of a rod of steel into the surface of metal and delicately scoop out metal curls. It is extremely difficult, merely I am loving it!

I am so excited to have now released my kickoff set of paw engraved 14k yellow gold stud earrings and pendants. My "Rose" and "Fern" designs are based on my simple black and white illustrations. The stud earrings are very small and like shooting fish in a barrel to clothing. They are around 9mm in bore each. The matching pendant is around 12mm in diameter.