Z’s Blog: The Jewelry Design

Hello my name is Zeynep Biron I am a senior in Mason LIFE Program. I love to do art, dance and going to GMU classes. I will talk about my art and how it affects me in my life. I did acrylic, oil painting, charcoal land drawing and jewelry. I hope you enjoy reading my blog.

Arts can be fun like jewelry; if you just try to be yourself, by putting things together and making art out of it. It will be fun when you use beads, strings, bead tools, head pins and a ruler. I love when you can try

Photo courtesy of Zeyneb Biron.

Photo courtesy of Zeynep Biron.

different kinds of colors of beads and you can mix them up. It will be wonderful. The beads can be different size, shapes, and colors. They have different designs on them that make them different from other beads of colors. I took a one- day class for jewelry. It was very fun class. I learned a lot from that class. I did earrings, necklace, and bracelet with different stones of beads.  The teacher was very helpful with the direction for the beading lesson. If you want to learn how to bead, I can

Photo courtesy of Zeynep Biron.

Photo courtesy of Zeynep Biron.

show you and direct through the process. The beading for earrings can be long, short or both long and shot. You can be creative with it.  You can buy the beads at Bedazzled, Star Beads, Michael’s at the art Dulles Expo Center craft shows that and comes every year. Cotton balls and shells can be jewelry art that you put on your beads on earrings, necklaces. You can make your own jewelry by using newspaper or magazine pages.