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How make your piece stand out to catch people's eye?
This is very important to every jewelry maker, special for wire maker, Do you want people see your wire design? or your stone? or both? Share your experience, how your piece catch people's attention.
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Permalink Reply by Gail Devoid on -
If I added stone/s to a piece, the way I would make it stand out, or at least not recede from the viewer's attention would be to make the stone large enough to be the same as the links or components of the piece. If I want the stone to take center attention, I make it larger. So I guess the answer I have is size. Color would also do the trick, but I tend to use size.
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Permalink Reply by Lilian Chen on -
"Simply the best" is my design theme, out of rule is the way when I creation, color and beads combination is part to focus when you plan to start the project. So when your project finished by very simple looking, but have design style which out of rule, has a very unusual color and bead combination, Which people can't remember it's pattern, So people will look at it need more time to figure out, That is the way to catch people's eye. If people tell you what they see from your project, the result which is what you wanted, you got it, you made your project stand out already.
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Permalink Reply by Elaine Thornton (ChatElaine) on -
Colour and the focal bead. Most of my work is based around colour, I just love colour and this tends to dominate. I like to use different coloured wires which compliments the beads and then this means that the piece stands out along with my own style. I do like dramatic but also simple can mean it still looks dramatic too. I think your own unique style can make your work stand out in the crowd, so to speak!!!
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Permalink Reply by Perri Jackson on -
I like to approach the design in my pieces like a painting or photograph - there are best practices of composition in these two mediums - for instance the rule of thirds, or giving the viewer a way into the picture and then leading them around it and out. Both of these 'rules' are about placement, line, color, and the way our eyes want to move - and no 'rule' is written in stone.
Since I am personally interested in the wire itself as art, if the stone or bead color grabs attention, I like to support it with work that will keep the viewer enmeshed in details that lead them around the piece and back to the stone. The whole idea is to capture lasting interest - not a cursory look.
That way, I also stay true to my vision of the piece and am not a slave to 'should' and 'shouldn't' conventions.
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