The Mad Alchemist’s Cabinet
Monday & Tuesday
$260
  
  Michael deMeng
9:00 - 4:30
   

Student Level: All Levels
Type of Workshop: Project

 

This is a 12 hour, 2 day workshop taught on Monday and Tuesday.

Back in the olden days, (you know, back when you’d take the kids to a drive-in movie in an ox cart) alchemy was all the rage. In a simplified nutshell, alchemists were scientist/mystics who had two main goals: to find the “elixir of life” (sort of the Fountain of Youth) and to transform every day metals into gold. They remind me of the quintessential mad scientist, obsessed with the knowledge of the unknown, no matter the cost.

Now to be a proper mad scientist you need a few things:

  • Something to discover (lead to gold, fountain of youth, an explanation to the T.V. series “Lost”.
  • Some scientific instruments…I prefer power tools and paint.
  • A place to keep all your strange supplies like your jar of eye of newt (you can’t get this at Dick Blick).

The idea of this class is to create a nice little cubbyhole to keep your peculiar supplies. Now of course you don’t want your cabinet to be uninteresting; it should be something amazing and out of the ordinary to behold in itself. So in this class we are going to take a printer’s tray (tray with several different sized nooks) and transform it into an unusual cupboard using a multitude of found objects and variety of assemblage techniques. You have the option of working on adorning the structure alone, but you also can bring items to fill up the nooks and modify and embellish those as well. Get out your lab coat or sorcerers cap…time for some weird science.

Kit Fee of $20 payable to Instructor at class time for printer’s tray

Supplies Provided by Instructor for student's use in class:
Power Tools
Basic Tools
Printer’s tray
Some found objects

 Supply List:
-Variety of found objects that might be nice adornments to the cabinet. Items like watch parts, gears, typewriter parts, decorative embellishments….just about anything, really.
-Paint Brushes (a couple small detail brushes, and some cheap brushes (1/2 inch to 1 inch in size)
-Wire a couple of different gauges
-Basic Tools…pliers, scissors,
-Paint (acrylic…preferably Golden brand…either fluid or heavy body will work)

Quinacridone, Nickel Azo Gold, Black (Mars or Carbon), Titanium White, Pthalo Green (blue shade), Dioxazine Purple, Van Dyke Brow, Paynes Gray, Quinacridone Crimson

-Matte medium (fluid)
-Sand paper or sanding sponge
-Dap Kwik Seal for kitchen/bath, White. Should say paintable, water base acrylic or latex.
-Clear Liquid Nails or E6000

Optional Paints:
Interference Colors (blue, violet or any others)
Iridescent Colors (Gold, Silver, Bronze, Copper, etc)
Micaceous Iron Oxide

Optional Tools:
Heat gun
Dremel with cut off wheel

Optional items or suggestions to enhance the class project:
Heat gun
Dremel tool (cordless if you have it)
Palette Paper or palette

Questions? Email Michael at assemblage@michaeldemeng.com
Website: www.michaeldemeng.com

 

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