Zoom Party! Meet Jewelry Designer Jill Wiseman

Zoom Party! Meet Jewelry Designer Jill Wiseman

We love  Zoom parties! Last month, we featured guest Andrew Thornton. This month, we followed up with jewelry designer Jill Wiseman. Jill is an amazing talent and business owner. If you are a jewelry designer, you are probably familiar with her work, her YouTube channel or her online store. You will love her insight and experience. If you are a beginner, this is a great…
360 Degrees Vanishing - The Beaded Art Of Selven O’Keef Jarmon

360 Degrees Vanishing - The Beaded Art Of Selven O’Keef Jarmon

What a fantastic day to celebrate beaded art. We think jewelry and beadwork enriches the world with culture and folklore. Beads have been intertwined with the human experience for ages. Beads are a symbol of behavioral modernity - they note a transition when early humans left a life of pure survival and embraced culture and modern thought. They are truly transcendent. Beads have elevated us. B…
Jewelry Design: The Play Of Pattern With Margie Deeb

Jewelry Design: The Play Of Pattern With Margie Deeb

Margie Deeb is a master of color. We have previously looked at how colors can highlight or contrast each other in jewelry and loom work. Margie teaches that concordance is the harmony of like colors. Contrast is the clash of dissimilar colors. Both can be used to create stunning designs. This week, we are looking at patterns. Patterns can be simple or complex. A great pattern is one w…
Jewelry Design: Emphasize Differences With Margie Deeb

Jewelry Design: Emphasize Differences With Margie Deeb

Color is so important if you love jewelry. Designing a  necklace is more than stringing beads and gemstones. That is the basic part of our craft. To excel, you need to understand how a  color beading wire is going to harmonize with the stones. You need to grasp how a spectrum of beads is going to look as the jewelry takes shape. You need to see beyond the technical p…
A Passion For Color And Creativity In Beading And Jewelry Making With Margie Deeb

A Passion For Color And Creativity In Beading And Jewelry Making With Margie Deeb

Do you love  color? Do you feel you have a grasp for color? The beading and jewelry industry thrives on rich, vibrant  color. The Pantone Color of the Year is something many of us look forward to. But, some of us have a blind spot when it comes to color. After Margie Deeb published her first book, she found out that not everybody had a natural understanding on how color…