Jewelry Rendering in Colored Pencil Workshop

Spruill Center for the Arts Atlanta, GA

Saturday, July 23, 2011

10:30am-6:00pm

Want to draw your designs? Think you can’t draw? Think again! Learn the art of creating realistic renderings of your jewelry and metalsmithing designs in colored pencil. Learn how to shade objects to look 3-dimensional. No drawing or rendering experience necessary!

Supply List:

Available from Binders Art Supply, bindersart.com. If you have questions, the folks at Binders are very helpful.

Please note that Michael's Craft Stores DO NOT carry many of the items on the list

9" x 12" pad of Strathmore Bristol board, 300 weight smooth

Tracing paper

Lead holder, drafting style pencil, Art Alternatives is a nice inexpensive brand (Holds a 2mm lead. This is not a regular mechanical pencil)

pack of 2B lead to fit lead holder,

Rotary lead pointer (or mini lead pointer for the drafting pencil)

Regular pencil sharpener

Prismacolor or Progresso colored pencils in the following colors: (Please note that the Progresso pencils are wonderful for blending but not available in all the shades of gray you will need.)

warm gray dark

warm gray 70%

warm gray medium

light gray dark

black

white (White colored pencil by Progresso is best for blending)

burnt umber (Sometimes labeled differently. It's a dark reddish brown, NOT sepia.)

yellow ochre

canary yellow

your choice of red, blue, green, purple, for drawing stones

You may wish to purchase a basic set to get the colors plus black and white. The grays and possibly the brown will probably need to be purchased individually.

6" or 12" non slip ruler

French curve

Circle template

Square template

Please also bring a piece of already made jewelry for practice drawing in class. It can be your own work or someone else's.

Also bring one design idea (It's ok if the idea is in your head rather than on paper.)

If you have any questions, please email me.