Life and workAndy Lucas makes many variations of jewelry like pendents, rings, bracelets, earrings, belt buckles, and many other metals. He also makes drawings, hats, paintings, and buttons. Lucas makes really unique art and always try's to be creative, his statement is "once made" because he never try's to copy off someone, he likes it be his very own work. As inspiration he likes to too base his designs off the gems he uses, but he really just try's to be original with all of his artwork and he wants to make a statement with his work. (Lucas)
Lucas also believes that each piece of jewelry should tell a story so when purchasing the jewelry he wants it to mean something to you and represent something about you. |
CritiqueAndy Lucas creates a lot of jewelry and other artwork that's really pretty and impressive. Like I said earlier he makes pendents, rings, bracelets, and earrings for jewelry and belt buckles, drawings, hats, paintings, and buttons as well. All of his work is really original and I think that is what really makes his work stand out. He uses lots of gems in his work and then builds he ideas of those so almost in every piece of jewelry he has a pop of color from the gem which really makes it pretty.
Lucas also uses a lot of shape and space in his jewelry because a lot of his work is three dimensional. For example, in the picture to the left the pendent shows a lot of space because it pops up in the front to make it 3D. Lucas also always talks about how the work should mean something to you and that's why he likes to make everything original, so when you wear his art it's supposed to tell a story and while looking through his work I haven't seen one piece of jewelry that looks anything like another. Overall, I think that his work is really amazing and it's worth buying. It is all very original and unique but yet really pretty. He makes so many different things and each piece has that little pop of color and design that makes it so beautiful. Construction Methods |
To come up with ideas of what to make he uses gems and the geometry of nature to spark ideas of what to make.Then he just kind of works as he goes without trying to to copy anyone else's work or steps. When making his jewelry he includes lots of the elements of art, especially space, because he makes it 3D and really pop while wearing it. To make is other artwork like his hats, drawings, or paintings he likes to just do designs so while creating them he just goes and draws or paints as he feels without trying to do a specific design and that's where I think his originality comes in. Then with his buttons he picks things that mean something to him or tells a story. Lots of artist wouldn't be able to do that but he can and that is something that makes him very unique.