I love etchings in art jewelry. I think it adds a personal, meaningful quality commercial jewelry doesn't have. I became a huge fan during my locket series where i etched parts of my adoption documents into bronze especially with typewriter font.


Here i've taken 2 stories, the figurine and walnut stories, typed them in a rough typewriter font and also cut out a few parts and played around with sizing. At the bottom there is handwriting as well which i wrote with a fine tip pen, scanned the paper and pasted it into the word document. One thing about etching to remember, MIRROR your image! i ruined several PNP sheets when i forgot to do that.

[below: etched silver]

[tester sheet- not inverted colors yet (save ink)

1. make sure you know which side of the paper it's printing on

2. check size of font and spacing]

[after the tester came out right, i printed this inverted version onto the PNP sheet]

Since i had done a lot of etching for my lockets i know whether or not i want the words recessed or raised. In this case i want them recessed.