Here is the progression of pictures of the pierced cuff bracelet I designed (notice the dwennimmen adrinkra symbol?) and made out of nickel silver for my Jewelry 1 class with the Westchester Art Workshop, affiliated with Westchester Community College. I received one college credit for it, and on the heels of this, have decided to go for my Associates degree in art. I never thought about just doing the two-year thing, and never EVER considered a community college (one previously referred to my me as Wastechester Country Club). I’m getting over my snobbery - FAST.
Mary Beth Rozkewicz was an awesome teacher IMHO, but apparently, not in those of my classmates. It was really more of a refresher course for me; I’d learned all this stuff over 30 years ago with Red, the Silver Shop teacher at Camp Pinecliffe. MB crammed a full semester’s worth of work and teaching into a 5-week course, and the other women suffered. Mightily, it seems. I know that if I wasn’t simply remembering how to do things, I’d be very frustrated and pretty pissed off.
So here’s the progression: preliminary sketches, final sketch, traced sketch glued with rubber cement onto a 6″x6″ piece of nickel (diagonally because I needed a cuff that was 6 3/4″ long), the finished cuff, and a side view. Yes, I sawed all of those spirals. There are sixteen of them (!?!). Plus the nine diamonds. As always, click on the tiny pic to embiggen. Tell me what you think.
