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Old 02-04-2012, 06:39 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Finland
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Default Introducing myself :)

Hiya!

I've been lurking around for a couple of months and finally decided to make the first move and post something. Uh, so Hello! Name's Julia Janhunen, 24, second year college student of Arts and Crafts where I'm currently learning the awesome world of hand forging. I'm mostly interested of making small and quite arty everyday objects from stainless steel/ recycled material, but my heart belongs to the detail and I want to learn different ways to show that passion to others, if that makes any sense

Were looking for more information of scrimshaw online and happened to stumble upon to this site; apparently fell in love, because I'm unable to get the engraving out of my mind! I'm very eager to learn more of this craft and it's secrets!

I've been drooling over the air-gravers, but for the student's ever-so-empty pockets does not give me an opportunity to buy one yet, so I'm thinking of starting out with a hammer and gravers/chisels to get the feel of things. Does that sound alright? Any ideas what should I get first would be very much appreciated!

Before I fell to the plane of metals, have worked with traditional arts like drawing and painting (watercolors) and with a newly found medium, scratchboards. Will post a few of those works here,

scratchboard work of my dog, Bean:


sepia cat drawing:
http://aukea.net/photos/54844.jpg

and a watercolor pug, finished in 2006...jeeze time goes fast:
http://aukea.net/photos/54859.jpg

Hope to meet everyone soon,
Take care!
~Julia
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