In jewelry today, we have been working on samples, mostly to get us familiar with the basic techniques, such as sawing, filing sanding, texturing (if you want) and polishing. My gecko turned out very nice, here's a photo In real life its shiner. I textured it with a very nice little line hammer, and it came out quite well. Our next project looks really cool, it must have at least three layers of mettle, be larger then two inches across, and have at least one layer that has been pounded out in a form, and must all be held together by rivets. This can be anything you want she suggests a belt buckle, Bracelet, night light, botch or a pendent. Right now I am leaning towards a night light or bracelet. In case you cant really pitcher this here's a photo of one of the examples she gave us. So this is a night light not quite finished. She used two kinds of metal, the back two layers are copper, she just treated them with different finishes. the cat is rounded out and made of silver. The holes on the edges are where the rivets go, and she plans to put a thin sheet of glass behind. I am quite excited to start working, I need to have a working idea on paper by the time I go in on Thursday. On outer notes I am going to switch to a different 4D class, same focus different teacher and day. The teacher I have now is a jerk, and the student teacher annoys me, spending a whole semester with this guy would be really hard. I will have to give up my free Friday, but will have one class on Tuesdays and Thursdays so its a triad off. For a better teacher and smaller class it's worth it.

in my drawing class tomorrow I have five drawings due, in five different styles so I better get moving on that.