Art and Design A comprehensive guide for creative artists - Aaltodoc

Certainly, before using natural beads or seeds, it is
important to treat (preserve) them, prevent decay and harm
on skin. Some types of seeds are safe to use as beads when
they are dry and they are easy to find from forests. Examples
of such seeds obtained from plants for making jewellery
and ornaments include:
1. Job's tears are commonly used in botanical jewellery
2. Ormosia coccinea seeds; they are bright red with a
large black blotch.
3. Coconut tagua seeds grow like a brown,
rough-skinned miniature coconut.
As a creative artist, check for other sources of inspiration
Ultimately, here is a table showing basic materials, which
from the already done sketches inside your book. Equally,
can be twisted into integral shapes necessary for creating
some drawings can still be used as a starting point for
jewellery artworks:
composing suitable jewellery and ornaments.
Here is another checklist of creative ideas which can be
Bones Pen caps Sandal/slipper
converted into delightful jewellery and/or ornaments:
Cable wires Bamboo Cowries shells
Snail shells Insects Alphabets
Tin tops Buttons Hollow sticks
Visual aids Logos Story telling
Bottle tops Used car tyres Plastic cork
Birds or feathers Wood/sticks Bones
Leather from old
shoes and bags
Scrap papers (paper
beads)
Plastic water pipes
Flower, leaf and
plant shapes
Religion and
worship
Entertainment/
Music
In a creative and sustainable way, clay is another
comprehensible material, which can be used to mold beads.
This can be done by using the inner surfaces of your hands
Patterns from
animal and reptile
skins
Tourism, museums
and prehistoric sites
Shapes, textures of
seeds and fruits
or between the thumb and an index finger to press clay into
In the meantime, learners should be given prior knowledge
shapes of beads. The method is tricky, because it is not easy
about possible outcomes of making jewellery and
to quickly obtain similar or matching beads—with precise
ornaments meant to serve as artworks with an underlying
sizes. But it's worth a try.
aim of scaring or frightening. Examples of scaring themes
Sources of inspiration for designing
include snakes, tigers or lions et cetera. Even though
jewellery artworks
creative artists can find inspirational ideas from them, such
Artists produce very many functional jewellery designs from
themes should be avoided. Here is why.
their surrounding environment.
'Beautiful' as such themes may seem to be—to you!
In general, creative designers use sources of inspiration
Scaring and frightening themes do not entice sincere users
from nature to execute a wide range of things that we see
than if jewellery or an ornament was creatively executed
or use as beautiful jewellery and/or ornaments. In Silvester's
from a domestic or tamed animal kept for companionship
(2009, 8-9) Art and the body; “snail shells strung on plant
as a source of inspiration. Examples include pets; fish, birds,
fibers make a superb necklace. Shells, nuts, gourds, flowers,
a dog and all kinds of animals that we treat with care and
woven grass are used as decorations.” Here we see that the
affection.
list of things the learner can use as sources of inspiration for
Silvester (2009, 6) argues that during his visit at Omo valley
designing jewellery and ornaments are inexhaustible.
in Ethiopia, “the Mursi were the most warlike among all the
tribes there.
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