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Decorative Florentine Hand Engraving
Florentine engraving serves as the basis for the extravagance in most goldsmith work from the Renaissance to the present day. Explore the beginning skills of the classically trained engraver using down to basic techniques made famous by such Italian masters as Mario Buccellati and Benvenuto Cellini.
Learn how to use the basic engraver, which serves as the essential tool in this specialized art form, as well as the milgrain tool and other decorative patterns. Students will work to gain the essential first steps in using these tools to create a few of their own pieces with endless possibilities in richness and depth. Helpful but not required are basic knowledge of such skills as soldering/torch use and basic jewelry making skills
If you'd like to see more of Vince's work, please visit his website www.vwhjewelry.com
This class is 8 sessions long. Each session meets for 3 hours. There will be no class on February 20. If a make-up class is necessary, it will be held on March 26 and/or April 2, 2012.
Meet the instructor
Having control over every aspect of his own business Vincent Wil Hawley owner of VWH Jewelry creates one-of-a-kind, hand-made pieces without limits. Having started the business seven years ago Vincent has received his BFA from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, as well as graduated from the Gemological School of America in Florence, Italy. He continues to be the sole designer, fabricator of his own work. Studying for over two years in Florence, Italy, under master Franco Rossi, Vincent incorporates his specialty, the fine art of Florentine Engraving into his pieces; such intricate work done solely with hand tools taking up to six months to create.
"Emptiness," or negative space, is critical to design. This is one of the foremost directions I take in my art. I create negative space, in a piece to create not only a visually stimulating design, but also to complete the pattern of the piece. The significance of material and composition plays an important role in my use of negative space: imperative to the design of the metal. One can bring depths to a piece which you have removed all weight from. To have a piece which is based upon what is not there, and therefore creating more from what is, fuels my passion in jewelry.
Materials & Tools
The $25 materials kit includes one graver, setting wax, base metal for samples, and other supplies necessary to complete the projects.
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