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| Private Flameworking Instruction
Instructor: Jim Berry
Whether you are sitting at the torch for the first time or would like to learn a new technique, Jim is available for private instruction.
Fee $45/hr
(allow three hours for beginner instruction)
Call to schedule an appointment.
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|  | Essential Techniques-Intermediate Bead Making
Instructor: Donna Mehnert
Explore the various essential
techniques in shaping, encasing & cane building. Shapes covered are
cones, bicones, barrels, footballs, long skinny and round. Several
methods of encasing will be taught. Stringers will be explored from
pulling your own to applying them. A variety of twisted canes will be
created, including latticino.
Visit Donna's website: Black Berry Beads.
One day a week on Wednesdays from 6:30-9:00pm for 4 weeks.
Tuition: $195
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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| Guest Instructor Classes
Click on the artist's work and it will take you to their site.
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2010
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| Marcy Lamberson
Playful Sculptural Beadmaking & More
Add creativity and whimsy to your beadmaking, while learning how to easily transform shapes you already know into playful sculptural beads. We'll first learn some sculptural techniques including simple faces (you'll make your own portrait bead) plus dogs, cupcakes with butterflies, and how to pull out glass to make arms and more. You’ll learn how to look at photos, drawings and 3-D items and interpret them as beads, while adding the inventive details which make them your own uniquely personal treasures.
2-day class on Saturday & Sunday, from 10am-6pm
Lunch will be provided on both days.
Tuition: $395
September 11 & 12, 2010
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| Anastasia
Tree Beads, Enamels and Ocean Shapes
Tree Beads – Focusing on the use of hair-thin stringers, students will learn how to shape a focal to accommodate a tree, how to use different glass, enamel, frit, silver leaf to create backgrounds, as well as create the anatomy of a tree and different applications of leaves with enamels and/or dots.
Enamels – Exploring different ways to use enamels by creating a focal bead with leaves and flower petals using a raking technique, students will learn how to safely apply enamels (respirator needed), how to layer and mix enamel colors, and how to separate colors from each other. Students may also learn how to work with different backgrounds, color reactions, transparent stringers and simple murrini cane, all using enamels.
Ocean Shapes – Focusing on shaping, students will learn different techniques to create organic/abstract shapes with concentration on heat control. Techniques include squeezing without using a press, experimenting with different glass for various results, shaping by adding glass, applying enamels and hair-thin stringers, and manipulating glass by cutting, pushing and pulling. Students may also learn how to apply layers of sculptural components in a balanced composition by creating waves, corals, tide pools and other elements.
2 day classes on Friday & Saturday and Sunday & Monday from 10am-6pm
Lunch will be provided on each day.
Tuition: $475
September 24 & 25, 2010
September 26 & 27, 2010
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| JC Herrell
This class will explore wide variety of enamel applications and effects with 104 COE glass beads… with a dose of fine line stringer application on the side. The class is designed for intermediate beadmakers with the intention of expanding the student’s arsenal of design techniques into the wonderful world of enamels. We’ll explore how to apply enamels to create vivid backgrounds, gentle color fades, faux surfaces and streaky lines, among other effects. As you become comfortable with the properties of enamels and learn how to avoid some common pit falls of enamel use, you’ll also become familiar with wide variety of colors available from vivid to natural. Finally, the focus will switch to fine stringer application with an emphasis on drawing straight lines and crisp connections. The class is loaded with information, supported with multiple handouts, and always tailored to student’s need and requests. The sessions are designed with practice time following each demonstration to build skills and comfort one step at time, practicing and troubleshooting at each level.
2-day classes on Friday & Saturday and Sunday & Monday, from 10am-6pm
Lunch will be provided on both days.
Tuition: $450
October 8 & 9, 2010
October 10 & 11, 2010
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|  | Bronwen Heilman Painting Class - painting beads using vitreous enamels
This is an intermediate class focusing on how to work with wet enamels and how to apply them. We will be focusing on applying a wet enamel on a flat surface, then after it is fired, we will roll it onto our core bead.
Day 1: We will be creating our own, one of a kind small glass paintings. We will learn how different brushes create different effects, and how to sign your name on your work.
Day 2: We will be lighting the torch, and rolling up our sleeves, as well as our paintings, to create beautiful pieces of art. We will practice this and get comfortable with the amount of heat we need to apply the tile painting.
Click here to see pictures from a previous class.
2-day class on Saturday & Sunday, from 10am-6pm
Lunch will be provided on both days.
Tuition: $450
November 6 & 7, 2010
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2011
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| Sara Sally La Grand
Reactive Silver Class
This
one-day class will cover the most cost effective ways to use the highly
silvered 104 glasses including decoration. Precision 104 from
Northstar, Double Helix as well as parts of the Vetrofond and Moretti
palette are selected for most interesting results. Several projects will
enhance the students ability to test colors, mix colors and apply those
techniques to bead decoration. Each student will take home a handbook
filled with test results utilizing stringer techniques. Each student
will gain knowledge of how to test colors for maximum results.
For beyond beginners.
Stop wasting that expensive glass and learn how to use it effectively!
One day class on Friday, from 10am-6pm
Lunch will be provided both days.
Tuition: $195
February 11, 2011 |
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| Sara Sally La
Grand
Creativity
and the Glass Corsage/Necklace
Students will create their own unique glass corsage. This class
covers how to create glass sculptures using creative methods with the
final design in mind. Five sculptural shapes will be covered: pod,
crater, disc, berry and wing. Experimentation with color combinations
will be encouraged.
The first day will be will be spent on the
torch. The second day will be spent working with wire and assembling the
corsage.
Students will also learn techniques for creating a
necklace, pin and bracelet.
This
is an intermediate flameworking class.
2-day class on Saturday & Sunday, from 10am-6pm
Lunch will be provided
both days
Tuition: $395
February 12 & 13, 2011
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| Melanie Moertel
In this two day workshop you will learn to make detailed stringer work and how to apply them on a bead. After we start with the basics of that we continue with more complicated techniques like making your own murrinis, the fairy beads, penguin beads and Indian Elephant beads.
2-day class on Friday & Saturday and Sunday & Monday, 10am-6pm
Lunch will be provided
both days
Tuition: $475
March 25 & 26, 2011
March 27 & 28, 2011
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|  | Jennifer Scott
Geldard
The Art of Play
1.
Surface Design
2. Form and Structure
3. Play
All
three are essential to Jennifer's work, and all 3 will be covered in
this class.
We will start with surface techniques: Enamels, shards,
metals and creating
surface design elements to produce unlimited
possibilities when combined.
We will then move on to sculptural and
shaping techniques to help you think outside the box when
you feel
stuck or bored with your work.
And finally, we will discuss the
importance of play and experimentation in your day-to-day
development as
a glass artist... and put it into practice during class.
Intermediate
to Advanced Flameworking
2 day class on Saturday & Sunday, from 10:00am-6:00pm
Lunch
will be provided both days
Tuition: $450
April 30 -
May 1, 2011
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|  | Katherine Wadsworth
Playing with Light: Creating Glass Beads for Etched Effects
Class Description:
Learn
to make beads with more control, precision and detail, and explore the
fantastic glowing effects you can create when you etch transparent
glass. We’ll spend two days creating lampwork beads with etched designs
in mind, focusing on taming temperamental transparents, conquering
challenging bead shapes and hollow forms, perfecting stringer
decoration, and exploring color layering and custom color blends. The
third day will be dedicated to exploring the many techniques for
creating etched designs using painted resists, stencils, embossed
stamping, and wax drawing. You’ll have time to try all these approaches
and creatively combing techniques, all as ways of expressing your own
design inspiration.
Visit Katherine Wadsworth's website.
3 day class, from 10:00am - 6:00pm
Tuition: $450
August 19-21, 2011
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Blue Moon Glassworks: 512-380-0770
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