I chose to take a jewelry class because it gives me hands-on skills working with metal and carving. I made this design because I was interested in the unicorn in the middle, which I thought was awesome. I knew that this art project would took me a long time to complete, but I wanted to challenge myself to get better at fretwork sawing. It motivated me to do even more challenging designs in the future. The first thing that I did to make this project was to draw four different designs to choose from. Then I re-drew the design that I picked and glued it onto a copper sheet. I waited for one day for the glue to dry, then I made a hole in the copper and started sawing. It took me about three weeks to finish the entire jewelry project.

I chose to make a dragon copper fretwork because I love the look of them. I use the image of dragons in all of my artwork, including printmaking, painting, drawing, and pen and ink work. This piece was inspired by the rest of the work I have done in art class