Jewelry - Basic and Intermediate Course

Learn how to work the metals, alloys, smelting of metals, metalsmithing techniques, stone setting, etc. On more advanced levels, variations on bolder techniques, which offer more resources to apply to Jewellery. Among them we have: Inlay, Mokume Gane, Kum Boo, Nielo, Samorodoque, Oxidation and Patina, Titanium, Acrylic, Wood, Engraving, and others.

Pieces of Jewelry with an elaborated and bold modern style, different of the so traditional standards. This is a world-wide trend in the Jewelry, fancy pieces, with gems that run away from the traditional standard of beauty and exotic, attractive alternative materials.

Creation on work benches

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Methods of the advanced jewelry that make possible to find inspiration in the proper work benches. To develop the creativity in the work with the metal while are explored new plastic and application forms. The intention is to move far away from traditional rules and look of the Jewelry pieces.
This course is formed by a set of events, each one of them composed by specific elements for the creation work. Exclusiveness of the Atelier M?rcia Pompei. It was created and developed in the proper School having as base courses of the Jewelry area given in countries of the Europe.

Stonecutting

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You can learn to stone gems in some lessons without necessity of previous experience. Stonecutting is an art that makes possible, not only to value the gem standing out what it has of better, but also the creation of new forms. New equipment makes possible the execution of a good work in short time of experience. An apprentice may stone with perfection a gem in few hours. In the old equipment they were necessary years of experience to get such result.

This so old technique offers the possibility to create special forms, almost always weld free. Classic forges associated with the simple curve, weld of bolt for earrings, until more elaborated techniques as the sculptural thinning of whole parts. Use of the tempered metal in the stonesetting under tension in different directions. Thinning for rabbets of different stonecutting.

How to combine, to join some metals to construct a part without similar one, really unique. Reevaluation of the concept ?Jewel? making possible a renewal in the aesthetic and values.

This metal gains multiple colors with the thermal treatment and electrochemical processes. A very interesting resource of the advanced jewelry. With this technique is possible to apply the attractive coloration of titanium in jewelry parts. This so rigid and light metal, that already emerges in sectors as Aeronautical, Chemical Industry and Medical Industry among others, also is conquering a place of prominence in the world-wide Jewelry.

The Inlay of stones offers same more resource for the creation in the Jewelry, presenting a different effect on the surface of the part. It is possible to give the appearance of a composed mosaic colorful for fragments of stones and a cement substance.?

Our old known, it gains status in the jewelry pieces. The aluminum incorporates many qualities, the slightness, low cost, accepted translucent and cloudy pigments. It is a world-wide trend that starts walking.

Courses of Basic and Advanced Design - How to create and to draw jewels, to participate of competitions, to present its art to the customer, to guide the silversmith how to execute it for you, to run for vacancy of work in companies, to create collections for store and companies.

Design of jewels for computer - 3D - Rhinoceros

To explore the resources that the program offers to create more and better. Rapidity in the production of parts since the Rhinoceros 3D is used by machines of fast prototyping, the part is drawn and immediately sculptured and used. Presentation of design with better quality. The part can be moved in all the angles and directions, extended or reduced, all the details can be seen, minutely. Knowledge of the weight in metal of the final part (with low margin of error) and thus to take care of to the request of the jeweler industry that today feels enormous lack of professionals who adequately work with the program and the process.

Modeling in wax for casting

It offers the possibility to create pieces that would be impracticable to the silversmith.?Two sufficiently significant questions are also associated with this course, a large scale production in a short period of time ally to a low cost. Such objectives are obtained through the Casting by Lost Wax, process directly attached on to the Modeling in Wax.

This course has as main objective to difficult, or until to hinder, the disloyal copy of parts. Making a rubber mold and injecting the wax, it is possible to send only parts in wax for the casting. The part in metal is preserved with its author. Moreover it is eliminated necessity to acquire and to handle all the equipment of the casting process (electric oven, spatulater of gesso, wax discarder, vacuum injector etc), is enough to have in the workshop a vulcanizer for the rubber molds and an injector of wax.?

Through this course, the pupil glimpses the fascinating possibility to color the metal, using enamel in diverse techniques. The traditional use of precious rocks with this purpose, has limitations imposed for the stonecutting forms, setting of gem and all more. The enamel brings freedom allied to strong, vibrant colors. It is more a resource to creative and innovativedesigner, opening a lot of options. ?

At the current moment, when we are conscious of the necessity of our planet preservation, nothing more adjusted than use this so old technique that can use natural and financially accessible materials as the wood, ceramics, and others ones. Technique this used by aboriginal and African cultures where the coloring enchants. ?

Iniciation to the Gemology - Introduction to the knowledge of gems and its diverse characteristics.The course introduces the pupil in the ?magical? world of gems. It supplies basic knowledge quickly and richly illustrated. It is proper to initiate the studies in gemology. Indicated for designers, goldsmiths, traders, salesmen of jewels and stones, also the scholars of other areas.

Step by step of the traditional knotted pearl necklace. See also how to maintain and preserve it, and the history about this fascinating gem. The objective is to demystify and to inform on this organic gem as well as practising the assembly for simple work or application in differentiated pieces o Jewelry.

To assist the professional whot executes and wants to sell its pieces. The universe of the Administration seems complex at the first seen, mainly for the artist who is worried about other values. Little by little it is possible to perceive that the creativity is as important as the financial balance, therefore the necessity to understand and to learn to work with information of this another area.?

Information for the jewel salesman

How to captivate the always very special customer who is attracted by this fascinating product, the jewel. What the salesman need to know regarding it, the company and the customer.

Jewel collection -The creation

What is it, for who, how to plan, how to present.