Contemporary Copper Jewelry: Step-By-Step Techniques and Projects - Softcover

Create contemporary copper jewelry that is beautifully designed and affordable with the bestselling author of Bead on a Wire. Contemporary Copper Jewelry features an extensive technique section and 17 projects from a collection of top jewelry artists, all shown with detailed step-by-step photography. Copper jewelry offers jewelry makers an inexpensive yet stylish alternative to silver. Working with base metals and copper is popular because it's pretty, easy to work with, and accessible. Jewelry designers find that copper is an excellent alternative metal for making affordable and beautiful jewelry. All of the techniques and projects are enhanced with detailed step-by-step photography and will appeal to jewelry artists of all skill levels. The extensive technique section also provides information on mixing metals, techniques for distressing copper, simple metalwork, cold joins (cold join only), and creating unique wire components. The 17 projects are sure to inspire wire and metal jewelry enthusiasts at all skill levels.

Sharilyn Miller has published four books including Stamp Art (Rockport, 1999), The Stamp Artist's Project Book (Rockport, 2001), Rubber Stamped Jewelry (North Light, 2003) and the bestselling Bead on a Wire (North Light, 2005) and has been , in addition to being published in many jewelry magazines. With a B.A. in communications (print journalism) and a degrees in visual communications and print journalism, she was the editor of Somerset Studio for many years, and the launch editor for spin-off titles Belle Armoire and Art Doll Quarterly. In 2006 she left the magazine world to focus on her wire jewelry and teach and write full-time. In September 2006, she launched her first of three instructional DVDs. She continues to share her passion for jewelry making by teacheshing workshops in Southern California, across the US and locations abroad including Montreal, Mexico, Italy; the Czech Republic, Greece, and the South of France. She lives in the mountains of Idyllwild, California.