Jewelry workshop retreat held in my studio near Seattle, Washington. Get your creative juices flowing and join us for a day or more filled with beads, color, wine and food. See below for an overview of the classes to be held. For more detailed information, click on the following pdf:
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Wanderlust! Netting Monday, October 5 (includes wine and hors d'oeuvres)
Wander
with a purpose! Play with color, texture and form to create elegant,
wearable art using freeform vertical netting. Create an open and airy
piece or crunch and embellish to add depth and intrique. You may
incorporate focal points such as bezels or large stones imbedded in the
design or simply use the positive and negative spaces of the stitch as
your point of interest. This class will experiment with free form style
and 'bead soups', and encourage you to break rules! ... but always with
an end design in mind!
Beads on Metal Tuesday, October 6 (includes luncheon, then wine and hors d'oeuvres in the evening)
Metalworking
and bead weaving come together! Create colorful components with
inspirations on the back using metalworking techniques, a bead soup and
a sense of whimsy. Then join and embellish to create bracelets,
earrings, perhaps a decorative touch on a purse, a sweater – your
imagination is the limit!
The Beach Comber Thursday, October 8 (includes wine and hors d'oeuvres)
Bags
bulge with treasures after a day at the beach. Transform these finds
into an extraordinary wearable / visual art with freeform techniques
that will inspire you to comb the beaches! You will learn how to encase
and interconnect shells, sea glass, stones and other pieces to create
flowing, organic works of art.
(includes dinner and wine on Friday, brunch on Saturday)
Working
with color is exhilarating! What better way to play with color than in
making bead soups? Just as a painter mixes different pigments on her
palette, you will learn how to make bead sopus that contain depth and
movement. We will focus on single palettes of color then explore ways
to wash them together. you will apply what you learn by designing and
making a color wash piece that glows!
Whether
you are comfortable with your own sense of color or a little
intimidated, you will come away with techniques that you can apply in
your own beadwork and in your home.
