Mixed Media Jewellery

There are very few books currently covering mixed-media jewellery, and this book provides a thorough and comprehensive introduction to all the materials and techniques you need to get you started in this exciting area of jewellery making. Designed like a 'tasting menu', this book will help beginner jewellers learn and adapt a wide range of techniques and skills to various types of materials through a series of making sequences, and learn how to incorporate these within their own designs. Materials covered will include: tinplate and metal leaf, wood and pigment, metals and pigment, paper with metal, found objects, fabric and pigment, polymer clay and fibres, felt, wire, etc. The making sequences will include at least ten projects using mixed media methods. A highly-illustrated how-to-do-it book incorporating a thorough introduction to a range of materials and techniques as well as a section on designing your own pieces. The focus is on experimenting and combining exciting materials to create uniaue and individual work. Joanne Haywood has been a teacher in the field of Art and Design since 2002. She teaches a range of subjects including jewellery design, life drawing, textiles, fashion and 3D design. Joanne is also a studio jeweller and her work has been shown in a number of galleries and exhibitions internationally. She has been featured in several books for bother her jewellery and her textiles, and was a finalist in the Textile Directory Design Awards 2007. Highly-illustrated, easy-to-follow, step-by-step. An easy but thorough introduction. Designed like a tasting menu to give new jewellers or those changing direction a chance to experiment with a wide range of different materials and see the possibilities inherent in each as they might relate to their own work.