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Hello Class,

This Padlet board is a place to share ideas, jewelry inspiration, and feedback with your classmates.

In class today, you will...

Research different types of jewelry and artists that work with wire.

Consider how wire can be used to explore elements of art in jewelry and other forms of metal-based artwork such as:

line

shape

space

variety

emphasis

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Publish 1 post on Padlet to share your favorite or most interesting piece of wire jewelry you discovered in class today.

Include an image of the wire jewelry you selected.

Write at least 1 complete sentence that describes why you selected this image to share. Include any elements of art such as line, shape, space, variety, and emphasis you can identify.

Then, add a comment on at least 1 of your classmate's post. Make sure your comment is constructive, meaningful, and related to the topic.

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Search Results | V&A Explore the Collections

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Polina Osipova is a contemporary artist who combines wire jewelry techniques with her cultural heritage. Her wearable sculptures are often formed with wire, found objects, and familial artifacts. The wire is twisted together to form wavy lines in a mask-like structure across the artist's face.

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wire animal - Handmade Jewelry Ideas - Lan Anh Handmade

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This is a playlist that includes video tutorial how to make jewelry from copper wire. These samples are inspired by animal

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Search | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Query Search for objects matching terms across all the text fields.

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Explore the following links to discover a wide variety of techniques, forms, and processes that relate to wire jewelry.

Consider researching jewelry from other cultures, and exploring historical references, designer fashion brands, and curated museum collections for inspiration.

The wire jewelry you choose to post about can be in the form of earrings, necklaces, rings, or more.

You may search other sources through Google as well.

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Wire wrapping beads to create unique pieces of handmade jewelry is fun, easy and slightly addicting! If you enjoy working with color, patterns and puzzles - this technique is for you!

The amount of supplies to do wire wrapping is also fairly manageable. So those of you who might have the knee jerk reaction, "I can't take on another craft," might want to explore that belief.

Supplies you will need are:
Wire (I'd recommend a 24 gauge for wrapping)
Nunn Design Open Frames
A pair of needle nose pliers
A pair of flush cut pliers.
A stash of beads

Be Inspired:

Here are some jewelry pieces to get you inspired!

Keirsten Giles of Lune Designs describes herself as a "self-taught jewelry designer." Besides being a designer, Keirsten is a legal secretary and a really funny writer. I like anyone who describes herself as a "goof." Keirsten's jewelry captured my attention because of her sense of design, usage of beads, and how she connects and attaches elements together. Her humor might be goofy, but her jewelry is beautiful!

Here are some fun pieces of wire wrapping samples created by Emma Stine.

Ukraine artist, Elena Sinelnik, created these lovely pieces of jewelry. I love how Elena weaves and hammers the wire to create interesting texture.

I like how Brenda McGowan incorporates beads and color into her wire wrapped jewelry designs.

I really like the work of Bear Run Originals. Especially how she incorporates wire wrapped beads into her work.

Here are two examples from former Innovation Team Member Karen McGovern. I like how Karen incorporated wire for a simple accent within the Nunn Design Channel Bangles.

More Wire Wrapping Posts:

You might enjoy these previous posts on wire wrapping that we've offered.

Wire wrapping is a fun technique to explore. I hope that you have been inspired to create!

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Wire wrapping beads to create unique pieces of handmade jewelry is fun, easy and slightly addicting! If you enjoy working with color, patterns and puzzles - this technique is for you! The amount of supplies to do wire wrapping is also fairly manageable.

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Larkin Hamilton is a teen in Southern Oregon who just started playing around with wire.  He fell in love with it and spent his time working through different patterns and designs.  Once he mastered basic wire wrapping techniques, he spent a long time working on his own projects without looking at other peoples work so that he could develop his own style.  

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Explore a wide-ranging selection of works, historical photographs, texts, ephemera, and other resources.

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I chose this piece of artwork because I thought the use of wire to show the family in the middle was really creative.This piece illustrates a few elements of art such as variety, shape, and space

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Born in Norwalk, CA in 1927, Ruth Asawa was an American modernist artist known primarily for her abstract looped-wire sculptures inspired by natural and organic forms. She adopted the basket-weaving techniques that she had observed on a trip to Mexico in 1947 to her own artistic practice. She created repetitive undulating wire sculptures and later began making tied-wire objects by joining several pieces of wire. She unfortunately passed away in 2013 at 87 years old.

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I like how he uses shape in his sculpture. To me, it looks like a fish tank.

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The intricate wire in this piece stood out to me. It utilizes line, space, and texture so well. I love how it looks so different from far away than when you look up close.

-violet c

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The Gold Wire Dangles have elements of space it has negative space in the flower.

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The piece of jewelry uses a design technique known as line art or linear design. This approach emphasizes the shape and form of the butterflies by using clean, defined lines. The lines can be straight, curved, or a combination of both, and they help to create a clear and distinct outline of the butterfly shape. This technique is often used in jewelry design to highlight the intricate details and beauty of the butterfly motif, making it stand out as a focal point of the piece.

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I chose this piece because of the way you can view and interpret the meaning and actions. I thought it was a very creative way to use wire and turn it into an artwork on the wall. 

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Mixed-Media Wire Sculptures by Yuichi Ikehata | Inspiration Grid

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Tokyo-based artist Yuichi Ikehata creates striking organic sculptures by combining physical and digital elements. “The eerie humanoid forms are pierced with holes that reveal rudimentary…

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This jewelry piece is beautiful and unique. The way she curved the wires stood out to me. It looks like a diamond stuck in a stone.

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I selected this image because I liked how they used the wire to shape an elephant and added color. They used line to create the elephant's body, added swirls for the shape, and the space is what they didn't fill with shapes.

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This piece stood out to me because of the colorful beads and pattern. The mix of colors goes together well and utilizes the color wheel.

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Do you like yokai or kaiju? Well then, view this astounding artwork made out of wire! A man in Japan has made a dragon (or serpent) out of wire with extraordinary detail!

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By Spooky on April 3rd, 2018 Category: Art

When it comes to metallic wire artworks, you'll have a tough time finding a more talented artist than @tdaiki1216, a young Japanese art graduate who seems able to twist copper and brass wire into pretty much anything he sets his mind to, from sculptures that look like drawn manga, to slithering snakes and giant insects.

@tdaiki1216, whose real name is Tsutamoto Dawiki, first made headlines in Japan two years ago, when his incredibly detailed wire sculptures imitating manga drawings went viral on Twitter. Fixed into square wooden blocks and placed against a white background, his artworks looked exactly like manga comics, even though they were actually twisted pieces of wire. Those were impressive enough, but @tdaiki1216 has stepped up his game even more over these last few years, and is now specializing in more complex wire sculptures, some of which are simply mind-blowing.
Photo: @tdaiki1216/Twitter
At the beginning of 2018, @tdaiki1216 was in the news once again, this time for a massive snake sculpture he made as a graduation project. Made of overlapping pieces of wire, this insane sculpture not only looks like metal sculpture out of a sci-fi Japanese video-game, but for something completely metallic, it's extremely flexible as well. It can coil around itself, the wire scales are mobile too, and its mouth can be opened and closed. I don't know what technique he used to create it, but this may just be the most incredible wire sculpture I've ever seen.
Photo: @tdaiki1216/Twitter
Tsutamoto Dawiki's Twitter page is full of other incredible copper and brass wire sculpture, from giant moths and cicadas with their wings fully spread, to various beetles, dragonflies and even anime characters. Some of them are so complex that it's hard to believe they are made entirely of metallic wire.
Photo: @tdaiki1216/Twitter
Talking with online magazine Irorio about how he started working with metallic wire, @tdaiki1216 said that it happened completely by accident. He was a member of a tennis club during junior high school, and one day he found a piece of wire on the tennis court. He started playing with it, and he hasn't stopped playing with wire since. His creations have been getting a lot better, though.
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Check out more of @tdaiki1216's amazing wire artworks on Twitter, and be sure to follow him on Instagram as well.

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Japanese Artist Twists Copper and Brass Wire Into the Most Incredible Sculptures

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When it comes to metallic wire artworks, you'll have a tough time finding a more talented artist than @tdaiki1216, a young Japanese art graduate who seems able to twist copper and brass wire into pretty

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I choose this piece because I loved how the artist used space and form to create it.

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I chose this because it looks cool and it id want to know how someone made it.

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i chose this image because this image i like the way these earings look. and the way there bent.

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I choose this piece of wire art because I liked how the way the shape of the fox changes perspective with the space. 

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I chose this jewelry piece because Its unique and impressive how they twisted the wire and the different sized spirals they made around the stone.