{"id":3416,"date":"2010-05-27T01:26:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T05:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2010-05-27T01:42:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T05:42:07","slug":"fabulous-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=3416","title":{"rendered":"Fabulous Indeed!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"richard-salley-workshop\"See this hat?\u00a0\u00a0 Seeing it sitting right there in the back of the class room on Monday morning signified that great things were going to happen.\u00a0 <\/span>Richard Salley <\/span><\/a>walked in to the class room wearing it, and taking it off meant the Fabulous Found Objects Pendant workshop would be underway soon.\u00a0 Right off the bat I have to say that YES, all of the wonderful things you’ve heard about Richard are true!\u00a0 He really is that <\/em>nice and that<\/em> talented.\u00a0 I admired his talent as I helped set up and placed the class samples on the table.\u00a0 Found object pins, cuffs, necklaces and <\/span>bolos<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 As students trickled in to the classroom, they joined me to ooh and aah over the work of this found objects master.<\/span><\/div>\n

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We began the workshop by preparing the base of our pendant.\u00a0 Do you have a Starbucks Frappucino or baby food jar lid laying around?\u00a0 That’s all you need to get started. We torched the back of the lid to remove the plastic seal on the inside.\u00a0 Then we hammered away to create a distressed look (and one student admitted she ran over hers with her car).\u00a0 What I like about this type of pendant is that anything goes…the more distressed and imperfect the components, the better!<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed Richard’s teaching style – very casual, but organized and packed full of demonstrations and information. And Richard definitely gave each of his students quality one-on-one time, as he made his way across the room checking in with students to see what they were creating.\u00a0 We were shown more techniques than you could dream of in one day, then let loose to just have at it and create.\u00a0 I’ll admit I can be slow to start as I need time to formulate my design. It always amazes me how others can jump right in and are busy hammering from the get go.<\/p>\n

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You’ll never believe how many amazing technques were covered in this workshop!\u00a0 Etching, Soldering, Enameling, and working with Faux Bone.<\/a>\u00a0 What I love is how Richard\u00a0taught each of these potentially intimidating techniques and expected us to go to it without hesitation. I had seen tutorials for etching, and my, they seemed to have so many steps, precautions and chemicals, that I never bothered to learn.\u00a0 And now etching has to be one of my favorite new techniques.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here’s a shot of the {ArtBliss}partners in crime –<\/p>\n

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Now for some shots taken from around the room-<\/p>\n

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Gathering together some components and figuring out which direction to take....<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mike working on his pendant<\/p><\/div>\n

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Linda's finished pendant<\/p><\/div>\n

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A lampwork artist uses her own heart bead for the pendant focal.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0My pendant was an exercise in layering.\u00a0 Faux Bone was used as the base layer for the pendant.\u00a0 Then came the etched metal window and the vintage button.\u00a0 Annealed Steel wire was used throught out the pendant.<\/p>\n

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My finished pendant<\/p><\/div>\n

What a Fabulous day it was.\u00a0 We’re already looking forward to Richard’s next visit!!<\/p>\n

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*** There’s still a little time left to enter the GIVE AWAY\u00a0<\/span>which ends late tonight!\u00a0 Please see the details here<\/a> if you have not already done so!***<\/p>\n

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