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Elegant Meadow Pods
Elegant Meadow Pods
Wednesdays, March 26th - April 30th
1:00 - 2:00 pm Eastern
(6) 1 hour Sessions, Live and Interactive Online on Go to Meeting
All levels of ability

Nature has a wonderful way of inspiring us. If we look closely at the pods that are left behind by a flower or plant, we can see the beautiful symmetry of nature. Pods represent a renewal as it releases its seeds to start the life cycle anew. In this workshop, we will capture the elegance of pods and fashion them into jewelry. We will explore "constructing" pods that look realistic with texture. The detail in this method cannot be captured with merely painting slip on the surface, as this would only capture the basic form and capsulate the detail on the inside where no one can see it. Vines, leaves, and other plant forms will be explored as well.

Elegant Meadow Pods Class with Holly Gage

$275.00Price
    • (1–2)  25g of Silver Clay of your choice
    • Pods, leaves, stems, and a collection of natural textures
    • 2- part molding compound
    • 400 sandpaper
    • 3 M polishing papers
    • Polishing cloth or pad
    • Basic tool kit, along with your favorite metal clay tools, textures, carving tools
    • Combustible compound – wood clay, cork clay, or delight paper clay
    • Eve® Rubber polishing wheels and knife-edge for Silver, blue (medium), pink (fine) for rotary tool
    • 3M Radial Bristle Brushes 400 grit to fine
    • Torch or Kiln and vermiculite. 25 g size restriction with torch use.
    • Prior to class, approximately a week before class, I will send you a PDF file of the lesson. (Please keep this for your eyes only due to copyright)
    •  Students will receive a link to a Go to Meeting (no account needed) and should arrive 15 mins. prior to the start of the first class.  (I'm in PA eastern standard time)
    • During class I'll talk about design and demo major steps
    • You can ask any applicable questions you need during class.
    • If you need to try something while I'm there to watch, no problem.
    • If you miss a class, bring any creative development homework to the next session.
    • Please take progress picture(s) of your piece. I will have a Private board for you to upload the pictures, so we can all view it, this way I can reference it, or point to it during our session to describe what needs to be done next.
 Please send this creative development homework it at least 30 mins. before class if not sooner -- stopping to upload pictures disrupts class time.
    • Holly Gage cannot be held responsible for technical difficulties arising bad internet connections. You should have a camera on your computer to participate. Other people on your personal network may also impede the session, so it is recommended that only one person in your household should use the network at a time. Headphones are recommended.
    • If technical difficulties prevent an individual from communicating during the group session or impedes an entire session, I will communicate with that person after the session to rectify the problem. If technical difficulties disrupt the entire session, make up time shall be added to the end of the sessions.
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