Creative Wax Carving

Creative Wax Carving
Author: Ruth Pierce
Publisher: E. R. Weaver Incorporated
Total Pages: 109
Release: 1989
Genre: Jewelry making
ISBN: 9780962472909

Wax Carving for Jewellers

Wax Carving for Jewellers
Author: Russell Lownsbrough
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2021-03-22
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1785008358

Wax carving is like sculpture for jewellery and allows enormous creativity, as so many different forms can be made. This practical guide introduces the techniques to this age-old method through a series of guided exercises and projects, and demonstrates how exciting it can be. Drawing on the experience of two master wax-carvers, it also gives invaluable advice on the finish of your cast pieces and how to reproduce them. With over 400 colour photos, it give advice on setting up for wax carving, tools, tool-making and materials. There are exercises that introduce the beginner to using wax and then build ideas and confidence to try more complex designs. Included are advanced techniques that show how to use stones in a carving and how to add texture and surface detail. Finally, finished examples demonstrate the potential, excitement and versality of the method.

Basic Wax Modeling

Basic Wax Modeling
Author: Hiroshi Tsuyuki
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2019
Genre: Jewelry making
ISBN: 9780997979879

Mr. Hiroshi Tsuyuki, the Japanese authority on Jewelry Wax Modeling, uses an innovative approach to teaching the technique of wax modeling. Often a process is easier shown than described in so many words. This book was conceived through the author's teaching experience -- more photos and sketches and less text resulting in less over-the-shoulder supervision. By introducing new techniques in each project, his students were able to progress more rapidly towards independence in design concepts. While preparing a model for casting and the actual casting process are adequately explained in most casting books, very little space is devoted to the design and creation of wax models. Mr. Tsuyuki presents 11 basic projects in this book, each one designed to teach the use of certain tools and types of waxes in a progressive manner as one's skills improve. Each step of every project is accompanied by a photo and text and in some cases supplementary sketches and notes are provided to clarify those particular processes. Paying careful attention to the photos, noting the demonstrator's hand position and the type of tool being used, eliminates any confusion which may result from the text. After each basic model is completed the author offers a number of sketches suggesting design possibilities using the techniques learned in the construction of the basic model. Mr. Tsyuki states that by conscientiously completing each project, the student should be well on the way to becoming a designer/modeler. This book is 112 pages and has 283 photos and illustrations.

Creative Carving of Fruits & Vegetables

Creative Carving of Fruits & Vegetables
Author: Kikky Sihota
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2001
Genre: Carving (Decorative arts)
ISBN: 9788174361707

This book presents simple and attractive ways of carving fruits and vegetables for salads, garnishes, unusual dishes, and light-as-air fruit-based desserts, as well as table decorations that will do any hostess proud.

How to Create Your Own Jewelry Line

How to Create Your Own Jewelry Line
Author: Emilie Shapiro
Publisher: Union Square + ORM
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2018-04-13
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1454710853

A successful jewelry designer offers a practical guide to starting your business, selling your creations, and building your brand. To develop a successful jewelry line, designers have to be more than just creative artists—they have to understand the ins and outs of running a crafts business. Emilie Shapiro’s detailed guide explores the many facets of creating a quality handmade collection that people will buy, including: where to sell your work how to do small-scale production how to carry out market research and publicity how to price and present your pieces for greatest effect, and much more Includes photos

Encaustic Art

Encaustic Art
Author: Lissa Rankin
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2010-08-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0823099288

With a history that stretches back to the hauntingly beautiful mummy portraits of Greco-Roman Egypt, encaustic art is now enjoying a renewal of popularity among artists and art lovers alike. Today, museums are staging exhibitions of encaustic art, workshops in the technique are thriving, and art collectors and dealers are assimilating encaustic art into their collections and galleries. The word encaustic is taken from the Greek and means “to burn in.” In the encaustic process, pigmented wax is applied and then fused to a surface with heat. The result is a broad range of surface effects and a luminous translucency that is unique to the encaustic medium. Encaustic Art is a complete resource for artists who wish to learn to create fine art with wax. It features step-by-step techniques with easy-to-understand instructions and detailed illustrations, stunning examples of encaustic works of art (including sculpture), along with practical advice and thoughtful aesthetic observations from more than 60 professional artists working in the encaustic medium.

The Art and Craft of Handmade Books

The Art and Craft of Handmade Books
Author: Shereen LaPlantz
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2016-07-20
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0486800377

Innovative approach to bookbinding explains techniques that elevate handmade books into extraordinary artworks. Simple, well-illustrated directions explain how to make pop-up panels, pages that "explode" from the spine, slipcases, and more.

Carving in the Round

Carving in the Round
Author: Andrew Thomas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781621130086

"Carving in the Round takes readers on a journey to develop their understanding of form, design, artistic creativity, and technical knowledge in wood carving"--

Language of Mixed-Media Sculpture

Language of Mixed-Media Sculpture
Author: Jac Scott
Publisher: Crowood
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2014-04-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1847977227

The Language of Mixed-Media Sculpture is both a survey and a celebration of contemporary approaches to sculptures that are formed from more than one material. It profiles the discipline in all its expanded forms and recognizes sculpture in the twenty-first century not as something solid and static, but rather as a fluid interface in material, time and space. It gives insightful revelations of the creative journeys of ten renowned sculptors and showcases twenty-eight international sculptors. With over two hundred colour photographs, this sumptuously illustrated volume will inspire those intrigued by and interested in contemporary sculpture. Lavishly illustrated with 223 colour illustrations.