Faux Bone - Concrete - Cold Connections 
In this very inclusive and fast paced workshop, we will be exploring Faux Bone, concrete and a whole array of cold connections that will allow you to combine them (along with just about any other material) in a piece of jewelry or small sculpture.

Faux Bone can be cut, and carved, sawn and sanded.  It can be filed, hammered, polished, drilled, stamped, inlayed, dyed, and painted.  It can look like ivory, have the patina of aged ceramic, or be polished to a pure white.  You can heat and bend it with nothing more than a small embossing heat-gun. It is so strong you can rivet on it, die form right into it, or hammer metal around it.

Concrete is surprisingly lightweight, easy to use, extremely versatile and…. unbelievably inexpensive.  In fact it is lighter in weight then stone, resin or metal of comparable size and this makes it perfect for jewelry and other objects of personal adornment. 

In this workshop you will learn the basics of using various types of concrete and numerous ways of incorporating it with Faux Bone and numerous other materials and incorporating it into the work you are already doing in metal clay, polymer clay, mixed media work and traditional metalworking.

In order to employ these two materials and combine them with just about anything else you may want, we will cover numerous cold connections both fabricated and mechanical.

All the techniques, materials, and processes can be used in tandem with traditional metalworking, as well as the various types of metal clay.  This is a very practical workshop with applications to book artists, sculptors, jewelers and artists working in almost any medium who want to include other materials in their work.