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Below are photos and descriptions of the workshops for January - June 2012 When Considering where to take your bead making workshop ask these questions. How many students will be in a class? What kind of experience does the instructor have? Does the studio have proper ventilation and safety procedures? I would love to have you visit our Studio and take a class with me! Sam |
Beadmaking I Introduction to Glass Beadmaking Glass Beadmaking is an ancient art form. This workshop will explore the art of making glass beads. Safety, studio set-up and beginning bead making techniques will be covered. Students will each have a workstation with a Hot Head Torch, tools and soft glass supplied. Each student will make and take home several beads including donut beads, cylinder beads, textured beads, round bead, dichroic glass bead; Decorative techniques including dots, stringer and frit will also be introduced. One Day 9 am to 5:30 $135.00 Skill level: Beginning No experience required Beadmaking II In the beadmaking II workshop you will expand your beginning bead making skills. The goal of this workshop is to learn skills used to create a well constructed bead with depth and interest. Techniques covered in this workshop are: Applying and encasing fine silver foil, dichroic glass, stringer and cane. Shaping glass with heat and tools will be covered as well as an introduction to duel fuel torches and annealing kilns. Students will use these techniques to make silver foil encased beads, the “gob-stopper” and a puffy heart bead One Day 9 am to 5:30 $145.00 Skill level: Beginning No experience required |
Torch work for the Fuser This workshop will introduce kilnforming students to the wonderful world of flame working! Flame worked elements add a new and unique dimension to fused glass. The workshop begins with a brief introduction to both the Hot Head and Minor Burner torches. After a review of basic safety, students will learn how to pull stringer and create simple latticinos. Basic off-mandrel techniques will also be covered. By the end, you will be a pro at making elements to enhance your fused glass! One Day 9 am to 5:30 $145.00 Skill level: Beginning – Must have prior fusing experience Bangle Bracelets This is a make and take workshop. Students will learn to make chain links and simple wiring techniques to attach beads as you create your own bracelet. The hot new trend in jewelry is mixing different metals all in one piece of jewelry. We will be using mixed metals (silver, copper, brass) lampworked beads and fun bangles in our bracelets. The basic kit is included in the workshop price extra beads and bangles will be available. No experience necessary just have fun and then wear your one of a kind Bangle Bracelet home. Half Day check times $95.00 Skill level: Beginning NON- torch No experience required |
In this one day workshop students will learn several different ways to make hearts. We will make puffy hearts, winged hearts, flat heart and decorate they inside and out. Student will also learn to make heart shaped surface decorations One Day 9 am to 5:30 $135.00 Skill level: All Torch Experience required One Day Hollow Beads Hollow beads are big beautiful and light as air. In this workshop students will learn to construct hollow beads on a regular mandrel, decorate them with stringers, precious metals and more. Just for fun we will make a hollow fish to practice this new skill. One Day 9 am to 5:30 $135.00 Skill level: All Torch Experience required Fiesta Beads Everyone loves a Fiesta wear a party around your neck. In this one day class you will learn to make several different types of bright colorful Fiesta bead. Star Piñata’s, Flamenco skirts, colorful disks and lots of color combinations that will get you in a festive mood. Techniques students will learn are disk making, Stacking dots to create stars and sculptural beads. This is a fun way to learn how to develop your technical mastery of dots and working in and out of the flame and heat control. One Day 9 am to 5:30 $135.00 Skill level: All Torch Experience required One Day Murrini Student will learn multiple techniques and make several kinds of murrini. We will use optic molds to make simple murrini. Then we will move on to hand building our own special murrinni. The possibilities are endless! We will work small to take advantage of the time we have but when you work at home the size you make is only limited by the size of your torch and kiln! Planning, creating, cutting and applying murrini will be demonstrated. Each student will make several murrini to take home and trade with fellow students. One Day 9 am to 5:30 $135.00 Skill level: All Torch Experience required |
Color Chemistry Color reactions & glass chemistry secrets will be revealed in this class. Flame chemistry adds a new dimension to what you can do with silver, copper and reactive glass. Wondering how to get those amazing color reactions with Bullseye glass. Want to know just what to do with the lustres and reactive glass? The focus will be on Bullseye glass reactive colors and copper and silver leaf. This exciting workshop will introduce you to working with glass that chemically reacts during the beadmaking process. These reactions create fantastic effects that will make your beads stand out. One Day 9 am to 5:30 $145.00 Skill level: All Torch Experience required Chambered Beads In this workshop students will learn the skills need to create their own chambered beads. The skills are as follows: Long tubular beads, style use to make the Chambers in this bead. Student will learn a great deal about heat control and the physics of melting glass. They will learn make a perfectly shaped bead using heat control and gravity. One Day 9 am to 5:30 $135.00 Skill level: All Torch Experience required Twist and Shout This one day workshop is all about twisted cane and the beautiful beads you can make with them. Students will learn how to make several complex twisted canes Latticino, Reticello and Zanfirico. You will be amazed at the cane you will pull in this workshop. The next step will be to use them to make some spectacular beads. We will make encased beads and disks with the canes made in the workshop. This is a fun workshop and the techniques presented have endless possibilities for you beads. One Day 9 am to 5:30 $135.00 Skill level: All Torch Experience required Dichroic Beads : Joy of Dicho Want to add subtle sparkle or down right knock your socks off bling then this is the workshop for you! In this two day Workshop students will learn how to work with dichroic glass. Students will learn to cut, cleaning and identifying colors of dichroic glass. You will learn to pull dichroic stringer, ribbon and twisted cane. The class will make test beads with several different colors of dichroic glass on transparent, black and white and patterned beads. On day two we will get to see the test beads and how the dichroic colors vary from bead to bead. Student will make dichroic stringer and cane and fun things to do with them. We finish up with dichroic noodles and how to have the dichroic coating stay intact when exposed to the flame (dichro out) This is a fun and challenging 2 day class Two Day 9 am to 5:30 $225.00 Skill level: All Torch Experience required Sculptural Flowers Imagine a garland of flowers that will never fade or wilt. I n this two day workshop you will be sculpting with fire making your own glass flowers. Flowers of all types will be created on mandrels to allow you to use them in your jewelry. Student will learn to sculpt glass, create new colors through blending and layering, how to embellish for a natural look, construction and composition tips and tricks. You will leave this workshop with a new appreciation of heat control and a bunch beautiful flowers. One Day 9 am to 5:30 $145.00 Skill level: All Torch Experience required Encased Flowers Love to stop and smell the flowers? This is an intensive one day workshop. You will learn to "grow a garden" right on your beads. We will start with simple dot flowers and encased plunge/bubble flowers. Students will learn make petal and vine stringer which they will use to "paint" raised flowers on the surface of their beads. We will learn to lay down the landscape of your garden with foils and dichroic glass to make beads with depth and interest. The final bead will be encased in clear and include all the beautiful elements we have learned throughout the day. One Day 9 am to 5:30 $145.00 Skill level: All Torch Experience required Leaves Student will learn to make and customize leaves of all sizes using simple tools, leaf presses and more. Color blending of glass, using dichroic glass to enhance, shaping and a variety of ways to attach leaves for functional with shanks and loops. This workshop will get you making leaves that will go well with sculptural flowers, juicy berries or just look great by themselves One Day 9 am to 5:30 $145.00 Skill level: All Torch Experience required Berries Learn the secrets of the fabulous juicy glass berries featured in Sam’s award winning necklaces. This will be an intense 1 day workshop. Students will learn glass color blending enhanced with dichroic glass, shaping, and a variety of ways to attach berries for functional use in you jewelry or fusing. Students will make raspberries, blackberries, blueberries and strawberries, to name a few. Sam will share the secret to creating a variety of berries that have a ripe and "juicy" appearance. Techniques covered will include sculpture, heat control, dichroic glass, custom color blending, and touch on enamels. One Day 9 am to 5:30 $145.00 Skill level: All Torch Experience required Take Leaves and Berries and receive a discount Blown Vessels $ Stopper Want to make a beautiful small vessel or perfume bottle ? In this workshop students will learn to make a vessel using a small blowpipe. They will also learn to make a stopper to fit their vessel. We may even make a few blown shells just for fun ! One Day 9 am to 5:30 $145.00 Skill level: Intermediate -Advanced Torch Experience required Blown Hollow Beads 2 Day Learn to make really big beads that are light as a feather. Once we review the regular hollow beads students will take it up a notch to make the biggest hollow bead you can imagine. Using the puffy mandrel we will see just how spectacular a hollow bead can get. We will paint them enamels them and cover them in precious metals. New materials and decorative techniques will be explored along with lots of heat control. Two Day 9 am to 5:30 $225.00 Skill level: Intermediate -Advanced Torch Experience required Murrini Making- Advanced This workshop explores the miniature world of murrini and cane. Students will learn to create murrini that represents elements of an image. Bring a color copy of a photo or picture containing elements you want to represent. We will be using Bullseye COE 90 glass to create murrini to be used in beads or fused pieces. Students will be introduced to simple to intermediate murrini making, application of murrini to fused pieces or beads. Fusing skills- tack fusing and full fusing of murrini, Beadmaking skills-placing, melting, encasing murrini, shaping and manipulation of murrini in the flame. This workshop is perfect for kiln formers who want to make their work completely unique, and/or beadmakers who want to learn these skills to elevate their craft. 5 Days $350.00 3 Evenings 6:30-9:30 pm Saturday and Sunday 9am-5pm Skill level: Intermediate/Advanced Torch Experience required Perfecting the Art The goal of this 8 week seminar is to improve your bead making skills. Students will review basic bead shapes (disk, donut, round, olive, cylinder, and hollow). Perfecting these basic shapes will give you a repertoire of canvases on which to create. We will work on basic decorative techniques to enhance your beads. We will learn the effects of a beads shape, color, texture/decorations on the overall design of a bead set or piece of jewelry. Students will be introduced to color as a tool both in design and expression. Students will get lots of practice both in the classroom and as homework and receive useful instructor led group critique. The final product will be to design and execute sets of bead for finished pieces of jewelry. 8 weeks 6pm to 9:30pm $525.00 Skill level: By invitation Visiting Artists 2012 |
