E-Class: Flameworking Beginner/Refresher with Julie Denton (996110)
Julie 1-2: Sunday Morning Glass School.
This downloadable tutorial is designed for beginners and refreshers to flameworking. This tutorial introduces you to lighting the torch, why we wear glasses, the difference between soft and hard glass, pulling a stringer, making a bead and creating simple dots. It will tell you about the oxygen and propane set-up and the essential tools you need to start flameworking. Tutorial includes a 45 minute instruction video plus a document introducing you to Zurich Glass School-‘Where creativity calls’
Size:1GB
Run time: 46:36 minutes
Skill level: None
$21.95
E-Class: Sculpting Animals in Soft Glass Beginner with Julie Denton (996108)
Julie 1: Sculpting Animals in Soft Glass channel subscription.
This course is designed for beginners in sculpting off-mandrel forms in soft glass. This class is designed by glass master Dr Julie Anne Denton to gently introduce the sculptural beginner to quirky off-mandrel forms in soft glass from the comfort of your own studio. We will learn how to make penguins, elephants, owls, fish and flamingos. These forms will teach the student a variety of techniques including how to “gather”, how to work with scissors and scaled-up “mashers”, how to make use of the “glass tripod” to create a stand for your animal and when to use “hot” and “cold” punties during the making process whilst “auto-annealing” your soft glass sculptures.
By the end of these video tutorials you will feel comfortable and confident making your own, original small-scale sculptures in soft glass without the cracks.
Class includes: x6 groups of video tutorials showing you how to make a fish, an owl, a flamingo, a penguin and an elephant in soft glass. These techniques can also be combined with borosilicate glass. You will also receive a complimentary one-on-one consultation with the maestro to help you through the tricky bits. You can work through this course at your own pace.
In the next 24 hours you will be given 3 months unlimited access to the Julie1: Animals channel. Please be patient until you receive the email that grants you access. Until then, the digital folder provided with this purchase should be downloaded and unzipped. This folder contains all the PDFs of VT (video) minutes to help you with each exercise, PDFs of demonstration steps plus photographs of what you should be aiming for.
Skill Level: Beginner level,
must have own torch
$216.00
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E-Class: Sculpting the Figure Beginner in Soft & Hard Glass Beginner with Julie Denton (996109)
Julie 2: Sculpting the Figure Beginner in Soft & Hard Glass channel subscription.
Julie 2: Sculpting the Figure in Soft and Hard Glass E-course. This series of E-courses is designed for beginners in sculpting off-mandrel forms in soft glass. This class is designed by glass master Dr. Julie Anne Denton and is a stand-alone course, but purposefully designed as a follow-up to Julie 1: Animals in Soft Glass. This course will build upon the techniques learned in Julie 1 using the figure to further develop your off-mandrel learning curve in the comfort of your own studio.
In this E-course you will learn how to make a torso, a Venus, a full figure with closed legs, a full figure with “dancing” legs, full figure with arms and legs both close to the body and separate. We will also touch upon feet, hands and heads. These forms will teach you a variety of more tricky techniques. We will be making these figures in both soft glass and borosilicate glass, although if you prefer just to use one of the glass types this is fine. You will be subscribed to this e-course for three months to this course and by the end you will feel like an entirely new world of sculpting off-mandrel through flameworked glass has opened up to you. Expect breakages and tears.
What we are creating is tricky and takes practice, logic and an enquiring mind. This class includes10video tutorials which should take a few weeks to complete if you include your practicing time. These tutorials show you how to make a torso, a Venus, a Cycladic figure, a Renaissance figure in the Italian style, figure hospital and a fully-formed tree spirit in soft and hard glass. You will also receive a complimentary one-on-one consultation with the maestro to help you through the tricky bits. You can work through this course at your own pace.
Once you have purchased this course it will take a couple of days to add you to your channel and send you your folder full of PDFs of VT (video) minutes to help you with each exercise, PDFs of demonstration steps plus photographs of what you should be aiming for. Thereafter you will be given three months unlimited access to the Julie 2: Sculpting the Figure. Please be patient until you receive the email that grants you access.
Skill Level: Beginner level, must have own torch.
$219.00
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Sculpting Dragons in Hard Glass Beginner/Intermediate with Julie Denton (996111)
Julie 3: Sculpting Dragons in Hard Glass channel subscription.
Julie3: Sculpting Dragons in hard Glass channel subscription This E-course channel is designed for beginner to Intermediate level lampworkers/beadmakers to sculpting complicated forms in borosilicate glass. Dragons are a demanding introduction to sculpting off-mandrel.
In this e_course you will learn to make a dragon in many stages to skyrocket your sculptural learning curve in the comfort of your own studio. The dragon will be made in components in coloured borosilicate with the use of powders and contemporized filigrana techniques to create depth and reality as opposed to a cartoon-like flat representation. Dragon wings are made by pulling points and encasing the tubing, blowing the tubing and finally cutting and shaping our wings. The body will encompass claws, dragon tendrils, scales and eyes among other things. You will create our own dragon eye murini in borosilicate glass. Techniques include the use of tubing, pulling points, colour application, heat/glass control, glass rules, the family of annealing flames from cold to hot and vice versa, how to combat cracking, how to fix glass and structural engineering–how to make glass bomb proof for the post and transportation. In this class we will make three different types of dragon-standing, hanging and framed.
You will be subscribed to this e_course channel for three months. By the end of your course you will feel like an entirely new world of sculpting complicated forms through flameworked glass has opened up to you. Expect breakages and tears. What we are creating is tricky and takes practice, logic and an enquiring mind.
Class includes:
This class includes 15 video tutorials which should take a few weeks to complete if you include your practicing time. These tutorials show you all the techniques which need to be honed to make the dragon in borosilicate glass from beginning to end.
You will also receive a complimentary 30 minute one-on-one consultation with the maestro worth $45 to help you through the tricky bits.
You can work through this course at your own pace. Once you have purchased this course it will take a couple of days to add you to your channel. Your zip folder full of PDFs of VT (video) minutes to help you follow each exercise, visual PDFs of demonstration steps plus photographs of what you should be aiming for, can be downloaded immediately after e_course purchase. Thereafter you will be given three months unlimited access to the Julie 3: Sculpting Dragons. Please be patient until you receive the email that grants you access.
Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate level in sculpture or beadmaking, must have own torch
Price: $259.00
