Ample, high quality content including written and visual instructions.
Access. Once purchased, this course is yours (for as long as I offer online courses.)
An optional Facebook student community where you can share, troubleshoot, and find inspiration.
Resources! Templates, raw material and tool shopping links, exclusive student discount codes to popular vendors, and more!
working with templates
centering and stamping
piercing
texturing
filing and refining
dapping & forming
disc cutting
working with tubing
soldering
embellishing
finishing
alternatives & considerations
proficiency & confidence
An individualized necklace comprised of four basic parts:
a handmade bell
spool-style beads
spacer beads
a custom toggle
Use these components together to create a project just as I do in this course, or take the individual elements and incorporate them into your own aesthetic and style of work.
This course is recommended for experienced beginner to intermediate students. Familiarity with a saw and experience soldering will be highly beneficial.
I will be using an acetylene-air torch for this project. Torches similar to a Blazer Big Shot or a butane canister affixed to a Sterno-style torch head (as is commonly used in classrooms) will also work just fine.
Well, my Rio order arrives today, but the class is already paying dividends... :-) After watching the soldering videos, I picked up some nuggets of Rosy Wisdom that made a big difference in my own soldering... had several pieces to solder last night and it was easy peasy instead of nerve wracking as usual.... thanks Jess!
If it matters, I hold a Bachelor of Art & Design from NCSU's College of Design, am a trained Creative Performance Coach through an ICF-accredited program, have taught thousands of students over the span of thirteen years, and have been a full-time, self-employed metalsmith since 2007.
More importantly, I don't subscribe to the idea of the starving artist. I believe we design our lives and ourselves as much as we do our work. In addition to project-based technique courses, I create immersive coaching programs and provide 1:1 containers for highly motivated, action-oriented creatives who want nothing less than intentional design, authentic expression, smart structures and studio systems, and full alignment between who they are and what they do. You build durable, valuable, expressive art. You ARE durable, valuable, expressive art. To speak with me about coaching and learn more about how I can support you, schedule free a Connection Call below.