{"id":3310,"date":"2010-11-07T13:35:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T21:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2023-02-22T14:36:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T22:36:31","slug":"class-updates-a-dress-and-new-mokume-gane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/07\/class-updates-a-dress-and-new-mokume-gane\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Updates, a Dress, and New Mokume-gane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Class Updates<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. By request I’ve added another 5-day intensive at my workshop. The dates are March 5-9. I will post a deadline soon, but please let me know as soon as possible if you would like to attend.<\/p>\n

2. If you happen to be going to the Tuscon show, I will be teaching a 2-day workshop in Tucson at that time. The dates are February 2-3, 2011, and the location is Amado Territory Ranch (30 miles south of Tucson). Contact information: www.expressiveartsstudio.com<\/a> or studio@expressiveartsstudio.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3. Another class has been added to my travel-teaching schedule<\/a>, with the Greater Philadelphia Metal Clay Guild, August 13-14, 2011<\/del>. UPDATE:<\/strong> There are now two<\/strong> workshops, back-to-back: August 11-12 and August 13-14, 2011. Please contact Holly Gage, at hgage1@ptd.net<\/a>. Note:<\/em> Plans are still in the works, and registration with Holly will start in January. Please contact Holly to be put on the list for more information.<\/p>\n

And a note to my local students: because of the size of Thursday morning class, I added a class on Friday morning, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. For this week only, class will take place on Friday only (not on Thursday, which is Veterans’ Day).<\/p>\n

The Dress on my Book Cover<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have been asked what it is and how big it is. Sometimes I take her with me to workshops and people tell me they never imagined how big she was. It’s hollow, 4″ tall and 3.5″ wide at the bottom. I made it from the original silver clay, so it was 30% bigger before firing. It took about 5 months to construct. Here she is in my hand, so you can have an idea of the size:<\/p>\n

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More Mokume-gane<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the kind of mokume-gane design that I have been trying to achieve for a long time. As opposed to the Skinner Blend, I have not been able to create this design by following instructions from polymer clay books and sites. So I had a lot of failures. I think the following are getting close to the natural mokume-gane designs that occur in nature.<\/p>\n

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Before firing<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Aftwr<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>

After firing<\/p><\/div>\n

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Before<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Befoe\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>

Before<\/p><\/div>\n

\"After\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>

After<\/p><\/div>\n

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Class Updates 1. By request I’ve added another 5-day intensive at my workshop. The dates are March 5-9. I will post a deadline soon, but please let me know as soon as possible if you would like to attend. 2. If you happen to be going to the Tuscon show, I will be teaching a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9455,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions\/9455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}