Resin….and everything you want to know about it
Wed 6:30-9:30
$210
  
  Susan Lenart Kazmer
Thurs 9:00-4:30
   

Student Level: All student levels
Type of Workshop: Process and Project

 

This is a 9 hour workshop held on Wednesday evening and all day Thursday.

Learn to cast charms, objects and figurative pieces using flexible rubber molding compound that allows for many undercuts. Pulling your resin charm from your mold is just the first step. Now turn them into dimensional, interesting elements. Learn clean up and finishing secrets such as Patinas for making the details stand out, sanding without creating a cloudy surface and drilling tips. Work with a superior non- toxic jeweler’s grade resin that will never yellow in time.

Learn proper application and safety tips for resin. This hands on workshop offered in a 2 day format offers many ground breaking techniques from creating hand made hollow bezel forms from wire, sheet metal and filling pierced recesses. Ideas for images, text, layering, and creating colorful stone like textures from organic material such as sand, pepper and crushed powders.

Create layers of extraordinary translucent papers in jewelry using a collection of new ideas and techniques in freestanding paper and resins. Learn rubs, burnings, oil pastel and colored pencil techniques. Make charms for jewelry, journal or home embellishments. Students will take home a few molds, complete a handful of finished charms, handmade bezels, and jewelry pieces.

Kit fee of $35 payable to Instructor at class time includes:
Rubber mold compound
Silver bezels
Wire
Brass and found object bezels
Sheet metal
Jewelers grade resins
Organic materials and expendables

Supply List:
Needle nose pliers
Chain nose pliers
Jewelers saw
Blades
Bench pin
Anvil
Drill and bits
Metal files
Wire snips
Scissors
Small objects
Text
Images
Natural materials such as leaves, sticks, dried flowers etc.

Optional:
Objects you would like to cast
Found object bezel forms such as beer tops, small tins, coco metal lids etc….
Extra wire -18 to 16 gauge or a variety

Questions? Email Susan at susanlenartkazmer.roadrunner.com
Website: www.susanlenartkazmer.net

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