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Intro to Enameling: Opaques

Add dynamic color to your jewelry with enamel! Fired glass can be added to fabricated, cast, or even metal clay jewelry. It's fun, easy, and the results are stunning! This two sess

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Intro to Enameling: Opaques

Intro to Enameling: Opaques

Add dynamic color to your jewelry with enamel! Fired glass can be added to fabricated, cast, or even metal clay jewelry. It's fun, easy, and the results are stunning! This two sess

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Add dynamic color to your jewelry with enamel! Fired glass can be added to fabricated, cast, or even metal clay jewelry. It's fun, easy, and the results are stunning!

This two session class will introduce you to the vast world of enameling. Each session you will learn different techniques that can be combined or used separately. Topics to be covered include: preparing metal for enamel, kiln firing, painting and sifting techniques, surface textures, sgraffito, limoges, and multiple enameling techniques.  All base materials will be provided.

In each session you will make several samples of different techniques and walk out with one or more completed pieces of enamel jewelry!

Details:

  • No jewelry experience needed for this class. 
  • $40 materials fee will be added to class fee when you register.
  • Students will have an opportunity to purchase additional copper to make blanks and are welcome to bring any copper of their own.
  • Please bring a bag lunch. BARN has a refrigerator to store your lunch, located on the lower level.


Instructor: Karin Lee Luvaas is a local Bainbridge Island artist and jeweler. With an art degree in encaustics, painting and metal sculpture, Karin has studied under acclaimed enameling jewelry masters Linda Darty, Keith Lewis, Heejoo Kim, and Aurélie Guillaume and achieved Graduate Jeweler status under Alan Revere of the world renowned Revere Academy of San Francisco, California.  Karin is also a GIA certified Graduate Gemologist and holds a Jewelers of America Bench Jeweler Technician certificate.

Karin’s current work can be viewed on Instagram @karinluvaas.


Contact: Jewelry.Lead@BainbridgeBARN.org

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