Soft Glass Lampworking Classes

 

Soft Glass Sculpture Fauna with Deb Crowley
Skill Level: Beginning/Intermediate

Learn some great tips on sculpting soft glass fauna (animals) and keeping it all hot enough and in one piece!  If you have tried to sculpt in soft or  soda-lime glass but things crack or explode... then this is the class for you!  We will complete two beads, an adorable hummingbird and a fun, fantasy-wearable fish bead. Learn to crimp great fins, two types of cool eyes, lips, wings, beaks, expressions and more!!
                                                                                       
Tools Needed:  Mini-mashers, small hemostats, graphite or brass paddle and didymium glasses!  

 

Julia Lund's Crossover Torching/Fusing
Skill Level: Beginning to Intermediate

Learn to make flowers, leaves, stems, tendrils and realistic components for fusing in a flame.  Learn some of the secrets to making fast and beautiful floral scenes a petal at a time to make a 6" tile.  If you are a fuser looking for a new way to create realism or just make things easier and faster, this is the class for you!

Tools needed: Mini Mashers, Paddle, Tweezers, Graphite Rods or hollow blow pipes, Glass Nippers


 

Surface Florals with Kristi Brokaw

   

Seashell Lampwork Beads with Doretha Jones
Skill Level: Beginning/Intermediate

Come learn to make seashell beads on the torch that look like they were just picked up on the beach.  Everyone thinks these shells are real.  Doretha has been specializing in lampwork shells for 2 years and has fallen in love with them.  She will show you some tricks she has developed along the way to perfect them and make them better and better! 
Glass Supplies:  All glass can be Effetre; Ivory (light or dark, doesn't matter), Dark Red Brown Opaque, White, Dark Pink opaque, Carnelian, Dark Pink opalino/alabastro (the one that is in the same family as the Carnelian), Rubino Oro, I can bring some of these if you need me to!

Tools suggested:  Bring a Val Cox marver if you have one, this is a brass cone shaped marver on a heavy round stand that is very nice for making shells, teacher will have some in class for you to try out.  Bring your favorite tools for lampworking, a small brass stump shaper is nice to have.  Doretha is hoping to have some scallop shell presses from Murano in class as well for purchase since they make THE best scallop shell!  Pointed end knife, brass, also nice to have, Doretha will have some of these as well for students to use/purchase if desired.               

 

 

Soft Glass Marbles with Pam Pitts

 
Shipwreck Salvage with Sherry Bellamy
Skill Level:  Intermediate

This Canadian artist is an UNPAID Attendee volunteering to donate some teaching time to the event.
We're very excited to have Sherry Bellamy donate her time to GlassStock this year. She is a talented artist and we're lucky to have her!
In this class, students will build a bead from the inside out, planning how each succeeding layer will effect the whole. Although these beads look fairly complex, they're the result of many small effects which when combined make for a stunning whole! There's no "right" or "wrong",  these are an example of pure creativity, and sometimes learning how to turn a disaster into a little work of art. Students should be able to create two beads, a chubby bicone, and a largish lentil.

Tools needed: Mashers and/or a large lentil press, needlenose pliers or sturdy tweezers,  long tweezers, an uncoated 1/8" mandrel with a nice blunt end, a poking/raking tool,  graphite or brass paddle/marver, didymiums.

                   
"Chaos" is a Beautiful Thing! with Sherry Bellamy
Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced

This Canadian artist is an UNPAID Attendee volunteering to donate some teaching time to the event.
We're very excited to have Sherry Bellamy donate her time to GlassStock this year. She is a talented artist and we're lucky to have her!
In this class, students will learn how the chaos design is created, using a bit of copper and just a bit of *gentle* persuasion. We'll discuss the use of copper mesh inside beads, and talk a bit about "interior design" as it pertains to glass beads.  This is a fairly intensive class, but most students should be able to make two lentil or tab shaped beads, one smaller and one larger, using two slightly different techniques.

Tools needed: Mashers and/or a large lentil press, needlenose pliers or sturdy tweezers, an uncoated 1/8" mandrel with a nice blunt end, graphite or brass paddle/marver, didymiums.

 

 
Soft Glass Hollow Beads with Julia Lund
Skill Level: Beginning to Intermediate

In this class we will be learning some great tips on creating mandrel  
wound hollow beads.  This class will de-mystify these elusive bubbles  
of glass including how to clean them!  Learn to surface decorate  
without blowing out a hole.  We will make dichro core hollows, a bead  
within a bead and some fun shapes including hearts, fish and
 lightbulbs.

Tools Needed: graphite marver, tungsten pick, small tweezer and  
didymium glasses

Ornate Beads and Stringer Manipulation with Jennifer Geldard

Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced

	
	

		
Blowing Shards and Structured Organics with Jennifer Geldard
Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced





Sculptural Beads and Components with Jennifer Geldard
Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Tools for all 3 classes:
Handheld marver
Torch top also, if possible??
(My tool of choice is an oyster-shucker…like these) 
Stainless steel pick ( as opposed to tungsten, if possible)
Straight edge of some kind… kitchen knife, exacto etc.
http://www.acemart.com/kitchen-supplies/cutlery/knives/oyster-knives/2-3-4-oyster-knife-with-white-handle-each/prod9945.html
(pottery supply places have these.. So does Michael’s and ACMoore Crafts..
You could also use a sharpened 1/16th mandrel or even a sturdy sewing needle epoxied into a dowel handle)
glass scissors
Rod nippers
Tweezers
whatever you use to plunge a dot ( pokey-thingy, awl, etc..)
plain, 1/8 mandrel.. No release
3/32nd 12” mandrels ( so your fingers don’t get too toasty making
Loooong beads)
And of coarse any of your own favorite tools. I want you to be
comfortable!





Pat Ogle's Marble with Inclusions DEMO

Soft glass marbles with PMC inclusions DEMO ONLY!!!!
Watch artist Pat Ogle create magical marbles with Precious Metal Clay inclusions!
No experience level or tools required, DEMO ONLY.

Dragon Demo with Loco

"Watch the voices in loco's head and if you listen closely you may just hear them Dragons are slated for birth in this demo. Using soft glass, gravity and a few kwell tools creatures of all sorts will be made. Imagination and play are the name of the game! Requests will be gladly entertained."--- Loco

Required tools: A sense of humor, your inner child, and a passion for glass.

Borosilicate Flameworking Classes




Critter & Implosion Pendants with Chris Webb
Skill Level: Beginning

This is a beginning boro pendant and sculpture class.  We will make a frit implosion pendant and a small turtle pendant.  You will learn how to make a maria, pick up frit and implode it.  Shape the pendant and add a loop using tungsten. With the turtle you will learn to make boro twisties and some shaping skills as well as hot and cold attachments along with a different way of making the loop.  

Tools: Peter tweezers, mini mashers, tungsten pick, long nose plyers or tweezers




Intermediate Boro Sculpture:  Assemblage of a Mushroom Patch with Josh Mazet
Skill level: Intermediate
This intermediate torch experience required class will focus on assembling one sculpture from several pieces. Students will be given a thorough demo with lecture on the issues of construction of a multi piece project, before they attempt it themselves. The project itself will be the creation of a small patch of mushrooms.  We will do away with color and only use clear glass to really focus on the the elements of construction.  Bring your questions!

Tools:  Basic torch tools

Form and Facet,  Get your Grind On,   Torch and Coldwork Fun with Josh Mazet! 
Skill level: Intermediate - Borosilicate torch experience a must!

So it's out of the Kiln......, But you're not done yet! This exciting and first time Glass Stock offering will be a two part class, that meets Sat am (or repeated Sat pm) and meets again on Sunday am for part 2 of both classes.   The object of the class is to make work with the intent to be finished on a flat grinding wheel. 
   
Day one we will be on the torches, starting with a discussion on considerations  and objectives for this project, followed by an instructor demo. From here students will make work for coldworking the during the next days part 2 class. Torch experience is required and students will be using borosilcate glass.

Day two we will meet at the coldworking station with our work from the day before. Demonstration on use of the grinding wheel and technique will be given and then we can hop on the wheels to complete our projects!





Hugh Salkinds "Coil-Potted Hollow Beads"
Skill Level: Intermediate

This is a bead class using borosilicate tubing to create off-mandrel coil-potted color hollow beads.  We will apply various surface decorations to beads, with lecture and demos by instructor.  Then student will make beads to take home.

Tools Needed: Tweezers Medium, Graphite reamer 2-15mm, small Claw Grabber, small-med





Hugh Salkinds  "Venetian Style Hollow beads"
Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced

This is a bead class using borosilicate tubing to create off-mandrel hollow beads.  We will apply various surface decorations to beads, with lecture and demos by instructor.  Then student will make beads to take home.

Tools Needed: Tweezers Medium, Graphite reamer 2-15mm, small Claw Grabber, small-med





Boro Fairy Pendant with Ray Olson

Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced

This class will cover the construction of a wearable size fairy .We will cover mixing boro colors constructing fairy wings with dichroic encasement and ornementation with small flower or marble.Very nice.

 

Tools

I will provide wing press the class will share.

Tungsten pick, marvering pad, long nose pliers, razor blade or cheese knife, long tweezers, sheet glass cutter

Borosilicate Flower Pendants with Ray Olson
Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced

This class will cover the construction of  wearable art flower pendants, incorporating dichroic encasment and boro color. We will make a couple of different sizes, with your choice of colors for a trumpet flower with lip wrap. Great for beaders or just a pendant.

Tools:

tungsten pick, marvering pad, long nose pliers, octagonal graphite reamer, long tweezers, sheet glass cutter, cheese knife

 

Boro Millifiori Pendants with Kati O'Meara

Skill Level – Intermediate to Advanced – Must have boro experience

 In this class you’ll learn how to make your own butterfly garden or seascape pendant.  Students will have a variety of millifori images to choose from. Students will learn several techniques for adding millis to your favorite boro pieces.

Required Tools: (I’ll have some tools for students to share)
didymium glasses, hand-held marver or table marverd, small mashers, tungsten pick (1/8"),

Peters tweezers or Handy Andy Tool

Borosilicate Seahorse Sculpture with Shawn Tucker
Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced Borosilicate

An intermediate class for lampworking small animals, plants and underwater scenes with an emphasis on applied textures and impressed designs from both tools meant for glass and found objects. In this class you will learn to make a seahorse and apply surface texture with metal tooling.

Tools: Marvering paddle, Octagonal reamer, Tweezers

 

Borosilicate Perfume Bottles with Shawn Tucker
Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced Borosilicate

An intermediate to advanced class where tubing is blown into a vessel and shaped unto completion with the option of adding a pressed foot and/or various accents to make a custom perfume bottle.

Tools: Marvering paddle,  fingers (adjustable locking type), blowhose (the larger diameter swivel is best), octagonal reamer

 

Goblet Demo Class with Shawn Tucker

A guided tour of a few different ways to make a goblet.

Tools: (no tools, demo only)


Octopus Demo Class with John Lindquist

A guided tour of John's amazing solid boro sculpture.

Tools: (no tools, demo only)

Glass Blowing Classes

Beginning Glass Blowing with Mike Crowley

This solid piece class is for our first timers in the hot shop. We will make a paperweight with frit, dichro and stringer or dichroic water jet cutouts.





Intermediate Glass Blowing with Mike Crowley
This class is for those who have been in the hot shop before. You will blow a glass fishing float or drinking glass using frits and stringer.




Avanced Glass Blowing with Mike Crowley
This class is for those who have taken my intermediate class or are comfortable in the hot shop.
In this class you will make a small bud vase or a small wung out plate using bar color, frits and stringer.




Fusing and More....



Fused Pendants with Chris Webb
Skill Level: Beginning

Make beautiful fused glass pendants!  It is easy and fun to make fused glass
art jewelry.  In this class we will learn how to make fused cabs to
wire wrap or put a bail on.  We will also design pendants to be fired
with a fiber paper channel for instant hanging.  We will cut and grind
glass, drill holes with a dremel tool and grind a groove using a
jewelry bit.  This will give you a variety of skills to make many
styles of jewelry. 

Tools: Glass cutter, Running plyers, Grozers, Tweezers

INTRODUCING DICRO SLIDE™ with Georgia Speelman
Skill Level: Beginning

Come and learn about this remarkable new way to add dichroic to any glass project! Dicro Slide is a dichroic coating on special paper, with the same dichroic as on quality dichroic glass, BUT Dicro Slide works with ANY COE! It can be cut with scissors, paper punches or craft knives. Use Dicro Slide in class to make several small, pendant size pieces. Experiment with a variety of fancy scissors and paper punches. Try layering, for depth and emphasis or experiment with usual shapes. Imagination is the only limit to what can be done with Dicro Slide!

Mandatory:

• Imagination!
• Glass Cutter, safety glasses, breaking pliers, notebook & pen.
• Soft pencil
• Sharp, pointed scissors

Nice to Have

• Favorite decorative craft or scrap booking scissors
• Favorite paper punch or punches +/-1” size.
• Craft knife

Kaiser Lee Board Class with Kati O'Meara
Skill Level - Beginner – All Skill Levels Welcome – No Fusing Experience Needed

In this class you will make a slumped glass tile with a raised surface design. Create your own unique design by carving into Kaiser Lee Board.  Be amazed at the ease of creating beautiful custom glass pieces.  Each student will take home their Kaiser Lee Board that can be re-used for multiple pieces. KLB will open your eyes to a whole new world of fusing and slumping opportunities. 

Tools – Students need only bring their imaginations. An apron or change of clothes is suggested as carving the KLB can be a bit messy.

Faceted Beads with Chris Camac &  Josh Mazet
Skill Level: Beginning to Intermediate
Learn to facet glass through 5 different grits to reveal gorgeous
interiors!  Facet up to 3 windows in a bead you bring with you or make
at the event!

No tools required, but bring beads to facet!!!





Copper Electroforming Found Objects to Glass DEMO with Deb Crowley

Learn the supplies needed and the steps to take found organic objects
and copper electroform them to a glass bead!  This demo shows the steps
needed to complete the bead and a finished bead.  It is easier than it
looks!

Tools: No tools, demo only.

Beadweaving




Blue Ribbon Jewelry Designs for Lampwork with Dorothea Jones
Come learn art show tested jewelry designs that show off your
lampwork to it's fullest beauty!  Doretha Jones is a lampworker that
has been selling her lampwork as jewelry to the general public with
great success for five years.  She will show you several EASY
techniques that are FAST and very effective.   She will demo wire
crochet, a fringed spacer bead and right angle weave with soft flex. 
All designs will be shown and you will go home with a handout for all
techniques.  Then in class we will focus on making the branched fringed
spacer bead technique in class, which looks wonderful on top of a
seashell pendant or between seashells for a "coral" fringed
bracelet.  Doretha, "Dr. Meow", SAYS, "Come learn my secrets of how I
make so much in so little time and win awards!  Oh yeah, and make money
too!!"  

Teacher will bring all supplies needed, you bring some lampwork
you want to show off or make it at Glass Stock.
Supplies:  Nymo thread, beading needle, size 6/0 or 8/0 beads, size
11/0 beads, 3-4 mm pearls, firepolish crystals, droplet beads, or Swarovski crystals for ends of fringe.   


 

Zig Zag Bracelet with Mari Johnson
Skill Level: Beginner 

Learn this simple but elegant bracelet using Swarovski crystals and size 15 seed beads. 
I must warn you, this is the easiest and most addictive bracelet I've ever made or taught. You'll want one in every color. LOL! But they
make great gifts, and I used to give them out like crazy. If you use the regular colors instead of 2XAB which is my personal preference,
you can make a nice bracelet for about $10 plus clasp. Can't beat that, plus it looks gorgeous!

Kits will be available for purchase. The kits are inexpensive - $10 - $26 each. 
Or bring your own ... you'll need  60 - 70 crystals, a clasp, size 15 and size 11 seed beads. Needles and Fireline thread will be provided.



PMC (PRECIOUS METAL CLAY) 


 

 

Rings and Things Intermediate Metal Clay Class   - with Bernie Hardesty Filemyr ($60 fee)

Skill Level:  Beginning/Intermediate - Current experience with lump clay required.

Learn to design, shape, texture and how to calculate for sizing a unique ring of Metal Clay.  Some other projects (bead caps, spacer beads or ?) are anticipated as time and fun allows.

Tools Included:  Basic tools, 1 pack of 16 gram clay per person, shared slip and syringe (per 2 people) provided with class.
Full kits optional (student price $35) available for purchase  separately.
Tools Needed:    Bring magnifiers if you need to see!          
If you already have a favorite tool bring it with you!  Bead? if you like.

 

Deb Crowley's Beginning Copper Enameling - Pendants
Skill Level:  Beginning

In this class we will each make 2 pendants, magnets or pins with copper cut out shapes.  Incorporate threads, wire for "cells" (like cloisonne) and italian millifiori to creat wonderful little scenes in vibrant colors.  Learn why to counter-enamel, what gauges metal are best and how to use different techniques to apply enamels to metal.

Tools needed:
Tweezers

Supplies:
Supplied by Deb Crowley & The Glass Hive






Silver Coring Lampwork Beads with Kristi Brokaw
Skill Level:  Beginner

Come learn how to silver core your beads and big hole beads with silver and copper!  See how easy it is with the Jim Moore bead press.  We will also learn how to stamp and punch silver blanks and dome them for use as bead caps!
 
Tools / Supplies needed for class: BEADS!!  Bring your beads with 3/32nd hole beads, 1/4" hole beads and 3/16th hole beads.  You will be supplied with 6 inches of  silver and/or copper tubing for each size and a few silver caps.  Additional caps will be available for purchase.  We will not be making the beads in class, only learning how to silver core them.  Please make sure that you big hole beads have nice even puckered ends.  Uneven ends will be easier to break when coring them.  ***Please do not bring beads that have raised dots/bumps on the ends you will be coring***
 
Metal stamps if you have them.  We will have few designs for you to use.
Files - used for filing the burrs on the silver tubing after it's cut.



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