Comments on: Daily Wire Tip Dec. 26: Designing Original Pieces http://www.wire-sculpture.com/jewelry-making-blog/1074/how-to-design-original-jewelry-pieces/ Making Wire Jewelry and Wire Wrapping Techniques Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:56:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: mary http://www.wire-sculpture.com/jewelry-making-blog/1074/how-to-design-original-jewelry-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-1081 mary Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:20:54 +0000 http://wire-sculpture.com/jewelry-making-blog/?p=1074#comment-1081 It is extremely hard to re-invent the wheel and sell it. We are all influenced by what we see and read, etc. My father-in-law once told me that he was strictly a "pattern person" and not a creative person. He couldn't think up on his own anything but give him a pattern and directions and he could turn the item out one after the other. We are all a blend of things, some of us can read a pattern and grasp it and get to work. Others, like myself, can sit there and read those same directions a 100 times and still not get it. Show it to me and duh, it makes sense. I am a visual folk. I think you should celebrate anything that you create with your own hands, regardless of the fact that someone may have already created it as well and published it. So many designs have been around for so long that no one remembers who did the first one, etc. I think you should also do some research into ancient civilizations and their jewelry styles and you will see just how long the same ideas and designs have been around and simply redressed by all of us. It is extremely hard to re-invent the wheel and sell it. We are all influenced by what we see and read, etc. My father-in-law once told me that he was strictly a “pattern person” and not a creative person. He couldn’t think up on his own anything but give him a pattern and directions and he could turn the item out one after the other.
We are all a blend of things, some of us can read a pattern and grasp it and get to work. Others, like myself, can sit there and read those same directions a 100 times and still not get it. Show it to me and duh, it makes sense. I am a visual folk.
I think you should celebrate anything that you create with your own hands, regardless of the fact that someone may have already created it as well and published it. So many designs have been around for so long that no one remembers who did the first one, etc.
I think you should also do some research into ancient civilizations and their jewelry styles and you will see just how long the same ideas and designs have been around and simply redressed by all of us.

]]> By: Alex http://www.wire-sculpture.com/jewelry-making-blog/1074/how-to-design-original-jewelry-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-1072 Alex Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:42:44 +0000 http://wire-sculpture.com/jewelry-making-blog/?p=1074#comment-1072 Also, remember that you are making something with your own hands, and designing from your own self; it doesn't matter what others might make or have made. It is yours. I have the handicap of not really having a designing bone in my body. I can sit at the bench for hours just looking for a color combination for designs I already have. Unless my wife, who has great color and combination sense, comes and rescues me, I get nothing done! However, if I can see how a design is made, or sometimes just see the design, I can duplicate it, often putting a twist or element of my own into it. I am more a craftsman than artist. I knew a wood carver who whittled birds from pieces of spruce. I asked him how he did it. He told me to whittle away everything that didn't look like a bird. I got a piece and whittled, ending up with a pile of wood chips. When I asked where I went wrong, he said "you gotta be able to see the bird in that piece of spruce!". I simply cannot make out the bird in the piece of spruce. Be very glad and thankful that you are able to come up with unique designs, whether someone "scoops" you or not. You are very blessed. Also, remember that you are making something with your own hands, and designing from your own self; it doesn’t matter what others might make or have made. It is yours.

I have the handicap of not really having a designing bone in my body. I can sit at the bench for hours just looking for a color combination for designs I already have. Unless my wife, who has great color and combination sense, comes and rescues me, I get nothing done!

However, if I can see how a design is made, or sometimes just see the design, I can duplicate it, often putting a twist or element of my own into it. I am more a craftsman than artist.

I knew a wood carver who whittled birds from pieces of spruce. I asked him how he did it. He told me to whittle away everything that didn’t look like a bird. I got a piece and whittled, ending up with a pile of wood chips. When I asked where I went wrong, he said “you gotta be able to see the bird in that piece of spruce!”. I simply cannot make out the bird in the piece of spruce.

Be very glad and thankful that you are able to come up with unique designs, whether someone “scoops” you or not. You are very blessed.

]]> By: Hyacinth Pierre http://www.wire-sculpture.com/jewelry-making-blog/1074/how-to-design-original-jewelry-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-1066 Hyacinth Pierre Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:28:01 +0000 http://wire-sculpture.com/jewelry-making-blog/?p=1074#comment-1066 thank you thank you

]]> By: Loretta Gill http://www.wire-sculpture.com/jewelry-making-blog/1074/how-to-design-original-jewelry-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-1061 Loretta Gill Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:53:52 +0000 http://wire-sculpture.com/jewelry-making-blog/?p=1074#comment-1061 Thank you so much for your words of encouragement and I am very excited about where my designs take me and look forward to the journey. Thank you so much for your words of encouragement and I am very excited about where my designs take me and look forward to the journey.

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