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You have to learn the alphabet before you can write beautiful sentences. As with writing, when you’re enameling jewelry, you have to learn the colors you are working with and what they can do before you can create beautiful pieces of enamel jewelry. The individual colors are your enameling letters. Get to know them.

Mary Lee Hu is a larger-than-life artist in the jewelry world. She has literally done it all, from creating a breathtaking body of jewelry and sharing her knowledge with students and established artists alike to winning major awards and honors and having her work shown in some of the most prestigious museums in the world. And she created a new way of making jewelry—by using the same techniques used in fiber arts except with silver and gold wire.

The three main areas of jewelry design are shape, color and texture. Shape is the foundation and sets the backdrop for color and texture to add their magic. Hammer texture can be bold or subtle and is often the element that completes a piece of handmade jewelry. Hammered or hand-wrought jewelry is appealing for its decorative quality and for revealing how the piece was made. Hammer texture is a primitive way of forming metal and also vital to the contemporary jeweler, as it conveys the process of the craftsman at work.  Working a piece by hand is an aesthetic statement...

Manhattan jewelry designer and entrepreneur Sandy Baker is the owner and creative force behind Sandy Baker Art Collection. She claims she has been in the business for about 4,000 years, but it is probably closer to four decades. However, she has amassed such a huge amount of work, experiences, customers, and knowledge about the industry in that time that it would seem to be much longer than just four decades. Her story is so different from all the other Influencer articles I have written. Sandy has broken countless barriers, from entering the jewelry world from a different direction than everyone else in...