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Robert Dancik
A Bead Like No Other
Hollow Plexiglas Beads
Saturday January 16th & Sunday January 17th
10:00am-4:00pm
Class Fee: $250.00 + materials
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Description:
In this fast paced, low tech workshop, you will explore making hollow form beads that are at once, extremely durable, easy to make and utterly unique. Using materials as common as Plexiglas, as new as Faux Bone™ and as unexpected as bicycle reflectors and lighting lenses you will learn how to form hollow beads of varying sizes and shapes. They can be strung, used as one of a kind buttons, be combined with numerous other materials to form a unique piece of jewelry or sculpture.
After they are formed, you will learn how to include other materials such as metal clays, epoxy resins and putties, polymer clay and rock-like paper pulp, as part of the bead. You will also learn how to cut “windows” into the beads to reveal words, images or any thing else you may want to place behind the window or inside the bead. The surfaces of the beads can be cut, carved, and textured: or they can be sanded to a smooth matte, or polished to a high shine. The making and use of shop-made dapping dies for forming the beads will also be covered.
This is not a traditional beading class but rather an opportunity to make one-of-a-kind artists beads that are just as useable in book arts, fiber arts, clothing and sculpture as they are in jewelry.
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Please contact the store to register for a workshop.
401-253-1188 |
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