To Bead True Blue ICE Resin Workshops
January 29- February 3, 2012
Doubletree Tucson Reid Park, 445 S Alvernon Way, Tucson, AZ
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Resin 101
Learn foundational ICE Resin techniques from the ground up. Students will relax to a demonstration showing the many applications of ICE Resin in jewelry, collage, sculpture and mixed-media. These techniques include measuring, mixing, pouring of open and closed backed bezels, color additions, layering, embedding, casting, painting on paper and other surfaces, surface treatments and troubleshooting. Class fee: $20; Supplies are Free!
Tuesday 1/31/12 4:30-5:30 pm
Resin Basics
It’s time to have some fun while you learn the basics of using ICE resin in its many forms! Come play with our own ICE Resin Instructors and see why ICE Resin has taken the jewelry world by storm! Students will relax to a demonstration showing ICE Resin in all its applications then will be guided through a project, step by step, to get the feel of it themselves and walk away with a finished jewelry component! Class fee $20; All Supplies are Free!
Sunday 1/29/12 3-4:00 pm
Wednesday 2/1/12 3-4:00 pm
Intro to Bezels
In this short expository workshop, ICE Resin Artist, Linda McNulty will explain, compare and contrast all of the available bezels in their many shapes and metals. Get the low-down on the functionality, design and endless capabilities of the hottest art form around, and then try your own hand at filling a bezel of your choosing, with a collage element and ICE Resin. Walk away with a fantastic Wearable Art Component and a deeper understanding of this design form. Class fee $20. Supplies are Free!
Monday 1/30/12 3-4:00 pm
Friday 2/3/12 2:30-3:30 pm
Resin + Collage: The Journey Necklace
Come join artist, Linda McNulty, and take a jaunt through the creation of your own Journey Necklace. Using ICE Resin, Travel imagery and a Postage Stamp Bezel, you will set off on a course for the unexpected! Learn ICE Resin and Collage techniques: proper stabilizing of an open-backed bezel; measuring, mixing and pouring of ICE Resin; use of stencils, embedding and layering of images, rules of good composition; and creating a simple necklace.
Class fee: $45, Kit included.
Thursday 2/2/12 2:30-4:40 pm
Resin Alchemy
So many everyday material can be mixed into ICE Resin to create something new! Join Artist, Linda McNulty and explore just how far you can take Resin Alchemy: the mixing of new elements! In this hands-on workshop we will try all types of combinations of plaster, mica powders, ground metal, pastel powders, ink, charcoal, pearl pigments, and ground herbs. The student will leave with an understanding of ICE Resin, hands-on experience, a variety of samples of their own making, and one final fantastic Wearable Art piece, encapsulating forever your favorite invention! Class fee: $55, Kit included.
Monday 1/30/12 6-8:00 pm
Resin Architecture: Casting with ICE Resin
Come join ICE Resin and Sculpture Artists Linda McNulty and Cheri Lenart on an extensive exploration of Casting techniques using ICE Resin and Jeweler’s grade Mold Putty. Students will learn different approaches to creating molds and will be walked through Relief, One-part and Two-part Molds, step by step. Learn some tricks of the trade and leave with a number of cast pieces.
Class fee $65. Kit fee $35 (valued at $70)
Sunday 1/29 6:00-9:00 pm
Nontraditional Wire Wearable Journal
Create a personal and wearable adornment by documenting the history of your tribe by use of your own photos, journal entries, text, mica and transparencies. Begin with metalworking and hand fabrication to build a journal cover out of metal wire. Learn riveting, hinging and metal fiber lashing to construct a finished spine. Learn how to “make it your own” by ripping, shaping, inking and coloring the edges of your paper Bind your paper content to complete beautiful wearable Talismans. As time allows learn how to create transparent paper using ICE resin.
3 hour workshop
Kit fee $52.00 includes: 8 gauge flat bronze wire, 26 gauge lashing wire, solder, micro nuts and screws, 16 gauge hinges, organic materials, resin, handmade transparency, mica, bezels, eyelet handout leather neck wire and expendables.
Supply List: Please bring- anvil, ball peen hammer, and /or heavy hammer, needle nose pliers, chain nose pliers, wire snips, small interesting personal paper, small objects, text, scissors, photos etc,
Instructor: Susan Lenart Kazmer
Wednesday 2/1/12 6-9:00 pm
Glass casting!
An introduction to glass casting using theglasspoet glass casting kits! We will not be kiln firing in this short demonstration, but we will discuss the firing schedule. Free! Kits will be available for purchase. Register at Booth B20 for this free workshop!
Instructor: Cheri Lenart
Tuesday 1/31/12 2:30-3:00 pm
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Oct. 2-9th, 2012
Take your work to an entirely new level under the guidance of internationally-known Artist, Author and Instructor Susan Lenart Kazmer during an intensive weeklong metalsmithing workshop in the breathtakingly-beautiful Southern French countryside of Durfort, France.
Weekend flea markets and fresh farmer’s markets offer the opportunity to discover authentic time-worn objects that students will use to create personalized Talisman jewelry. Innovative techniques originated by Susan will be taught to incorporate non-traditional jewelry materials such as fibers, organic materials and resin into your Talisman pieces. Jen Cushman, a mixed media artist and author of the award-winning book Explore, Create, Resinate; Mixed Media Techniques Using ICE Resin® will be teaching the resin portion of the workshop.
A 20+-year metalworker and mixed-media artist, Susan has always had a passion for found objects. What she does intuitively comes so easily in the French countryside where objects infused with a patina of time are commonly found and cherished. Students will learn how to re-purpose objects into something new and extraordinary while still allowing these objects to carry the magnitude of energy within them from previous lives that can be seen, felt and touched. In this intimate workshop, Susan teaches the best of her techniques that have garnered her many accolades over the years.
Each day begins after a breakfast crafted by Nese, an amazing French chef whose healthy-and-flavorful cooking gives nourishment to the body for a full day of discovery in class. Lunch is served on the terrace and a tres gourmet dinner with candlelight and wonderful local wines of the region. Dinner is served family style with much laughter and friendship taking place.
For those who are obsessed with their creativity, the workshop is open 24 hours a day. There is plenty of time for wandering the local flea markets and darling shops, because what would a French adventure be if it didn’t include immersion in the local customs? Not to be missed is the renowned Saturday market in Revel ( just 5 minutes away) which is a visual feast. The memory of this market is something you will treasure always.
Though it’s not included in the workshop itself, Susan and Jen will be spending time in Paris the weekend before the event to gather vintage materials at the world-renowned Parisian Flea markets. Students are encouraged to join us in our adventures of shopping and dining before arriving in Durfort. Recommended Paris Hotel accommodation and activities will be included in trip information.
$3,200 price includes:
Week’s lodging at La Cascade — double occupancy
All breakfasts, lunches and dinner
Workshop instruction and studio time
Some materials such as ICE Resin, wire, etc.
Email info@iceresin.com to register or for more information.
Learn more about Susan at her website www.susanlenartkazmer.com, as well as Jen Cushman at www.jencushman.com
Artfest: Port Townsend, WA, March 28-April 1, 2012
www.teeshamoore.com/artfest/info.html
