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Showing posts with label enamel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label enamel. Show all posts
Monday, January 30, 2017
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Friday, August 21, 2015
This is where I live now
I am getting excited to start things up. Step one is opening all the doors and drawers. I gave myself a self guided tour of the metals studio before classes start up. I am excited to get some time on some of this equipment. I spent some time taking a visual inventory of all of the stakes and hammers. It is quiet impressive. It seems as if all the equipment is the best of the best. The lapidary, electroforming, enameling, casting and smithing rooms are making me drool.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Arrrowmont!
I just got back from an epic workshop at Arrowmont. The workshop focused on making brooches. Truthfully we could have used at least three more days. We spent a lot of time on making samples. We covered enameling, laser engraving, decal printing (we made a zombie mug), framing, fabricating, pin stems, saltwater etching, a little bit of champleve and enameling on 3D forms. The workshop was a great excuse to prep for a history of the brooch lecture. I also reunited with some old friends and made some new ones. Bob Biddlestone, I hope our paths cross soon. I can't say that everyone got to make a fully completed brooch but I am confident that everyone has the tools to make one now.
Arrowmont much like Penland and Haystack is an amazing place to be. Downtown Gattlinburg has not lost it's tourist-y charm and Arrowmont continues to be the oasis from that craziness. My assistant canceled on me last minute (totally not mad, he got a scholarship to Penland to take a class with Simon Cottrell) I got really lucky and Ben Dory assisted me! BEN!!
What a great group of people! Thanks for a great time.
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