Jewelry Design with Warren F.

CraftArt Edu

Video Tutorial instruction

Center for Beadwork & Jewelry Arts / Be Dazzled Beads

In 2000, Warren founded The Center For Beadwork & Jewelry Arts (CBJA), an educational program in Nashville, TN. The program, and its 12 instructors, approach education from the Design Perspective – a teaching focus on how to make functional, material, and aesthetic choices.

Warren F. Jewelry

Custom Jewelry Designer. My Personal Style: I like to organize my pieces into Series I call "Collections." For each Collection, I study a particular culture or technique or design theory, and play with what I've learned. How can I adopt what I've learned to my individual style and approach? Each Collection, then, is a personal challenge of expression and expressiveness. My personal style centers on a few key elements: I like to... - Mix colors in unexpected ways, particularly colors you would not ordinarily assume would complement one another - Use a lot of what are called "grays", such as black diamond, montana blue, colorado topaz, alexandrite, and other "simultaneity effects" - Combine both bead weaving, bead stringing, and wire-working techniques within the same piece. - Modify traditional weaving and stringing techniques - Define and play with forms and themes, and thresholds, frames and transititions from one form to the next - Have pieces that emphasize the sensual and sexual - Create unusual, unexpected placement of shapes, such as using curved tubes where you might expect a straight tube instead, or using a cube where you would expect a flat rondelle - Add dimensionality, curvature, and interlocking forms, where I can, to make my pieces both fashionable and contemporary - Add a sense of movement and move-ability, whereever possible, and likewise, anticipate the aesthetic and functional impacts and effects of that come from movement when worn - Push the limits of, and experiment with, the materials and techniques I am using

Be Dazzled Beads / Land of Odds

Own and manage bead store -- Be Dazzled Beads in Nashville and Land of Odds online. Buy and sell beads and other jewelry components. Organize classes.

Swarovski

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