Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist, September/October 2018 Print Edition

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You’ll love this if:

• You appreciate geometric designs and want to explore them in your jewelry.
• You enjoy learning about new gemstones like the Indonesian Opalized Wood.
• You are interesting in learning how artists are using ethically sourced metal and gemstones.

The shape of things to come! The September/October 2018 issue of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist explores how top jewelry artists use geometric shapes in their designs. Deborah Yonick’s Trends column brings you a look at several artists and the shapes they use. Then you can practice using a variety of circles and other shapes with projects like Michelle Brennan’s Circles & Squares chain maille bracelet — which uses amazing Czech glass QuadraTiles. For more fun with circles, check out Betsy Lehndorff’s Tiny Bubbles necklace with pearls and botryoidal turquoise, Eva Sherman’s Ring Around Your Wrist Cuff with tube set stones, and Kieu Pham Gray’s Sparkling Cluster Pendant with domed discs cut from silver scraps.

Bill Fretz’s Leaves & Beads pendants demo teaches you to take a basic shape and turn it into two different pendants, allowing you to develop your own design style. Erica Stice also presents pendant two projects of varying levels of difficulty — Picture in a Frame and Swinging Rocks — that show you how to suspend gemstones in a frame with wire. Try them both for another way to develop a style. Discover all this and more in the September/October 2018 issue of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist!

Order your copy of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist September/October 2018 today to:

• See how top jewelry artists use geometric shapes in their designs and then try creating with a variety of shapes.
• Discover one of the hottest stones — Indonesian opalized wood — and learn to set it.
• Explore ways to take a basic design and then adapt it to different pieces of jewelry in order to develop your own design style.
• Learn about ethically sourced materials for use in your jewelry designs and find out how leading jewelry designers are using these materials.
• Find out how two different artists use either vivid colors or black and white in their creations.
• Discover so much more!