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Jewellery making class coming up!

Hi guys, I'm sooo pumped. I have been checking the local art college's website every day for their fall/winter extended studies catalog. I'm still working towards my BFA, and one of the studio options has to be sculpture, glass, fibre or jewellery.

I can't register until next week though, darnit! The jewellery class runs Wednesday evenings from September to April, while sculpture runs every Saturday from September to December. It was a no-brainer between which was worse - 4 months of Saturdays of 6 months of Wednesday evenings :-)

My friend took the same class last year and she made some fun things like rings and a cuff bracelet (she's an accountant, so she worked an abacus into the design). I'm really looking foward to trying things with metal - there's going to be riveting, soldering and sheet metal forming. Woo!

Excitedly, Christine

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calzephyr
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Christine -- that sounds terrific! Can't wait to see what you make.

Becki

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Beckibead

Christine, That sounds great. I took a course in silver smithing, but have too poor manual and digital dexterity to work with fire. I always yearn to set beads or cabs in bezels. Hell, I'd like just to be able to solder jump rings closed. You will love the class, as I did in spite of my inadequate performance.

Ahhh, but sculpture!!!

Tina

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Christina Peterson

Oh man, that's too bad! I never thought about how much steadiness would be required. Do you think it's something that would improve with time and practice?

Heheh! The sculpture class actually scares me a little. It's more about using space. The description says that clay, wood, metal and found objects will be used. I'm not sure if it's right for me - I need two studio classes to finish first year, and I was thinking of making Fibre the other one. Now textiles I can really get into!

I'm pretty excited right now - I went out of town for a model horse show and I won a set of needle files in a raffle (the prizes are always so neat like that). Just the thing I need for sanding away without clobbering the whole piece :-)

Best, Christine

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calzephyr

As a kid, I was always last to be picked for a team. Couldn't catch, etc. And I drop things a lot. But I've always done arts and crafts and never thought of myself as clumsy. In my 40s I took some aptitude tests and was told that both my manual and digital dexterity were just a hair better than sub-normal! So now I look back at being taught to throw and catch, remembering all the comments about, not trying hard enough, not paying attention, etc, and I didn't catch because my fingers aren't smart. Not because of not caring, etc, That's a good thing.

I'm sure I could get better, but probably never real good, and certainly never fast enough to make it worth doing. The good thing about that realization, is that I now use better materials to justify my time and prices.

I've also taken a weaving course. Many people find the rhythm of it soothing, but I find it repetitive. I love working with wood because of the interaction between my hands and the wood; the way the wood calls for a certain flow. I've wanted to make a big free-style fibre sculpture, but you really have to due the plain stuff first to develop your skills. ...... So I'm sure I'll never do it.

You definitely should go with the fibre class if that's what you love.

Any chance you can get yourself a Dremmel drill set?

Tina

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Christina Peterson

I was always the last person picked in gym class for teams... and I always felt so clumsy and inept. It really wrecks your self-esteem. Maybe that's why I'm not a sports fan now. It's a pity that the powers that be didn't try harder to accomodate the physically challenged in exercise activities. I was like a mermaid in the water though (of course I never went to a school that had a swimming pool!) - maybe that's why I love the beach so much. And now I do Curves... and probably am stronger than I've ever been.

I love beading, but am not so good at wire wrapping and attaching findings... but I keep trying! :)

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Vibrant Jewels

Karleen, I went to junior high/high school in the 90s, and unfortunately even by then the powers that be hadn't evened anything out! I opted out of swimming for four years because I was too scared of the bully girls in the change room (found out recently that one of them is a prison guard, go figure!) to change. I recently started swimming (or floating :-D) and it makes me sad that I could have learned to swim and enjoyed it all these years. Even sadder that it's only getting close to 30 where I can say I actually like my body too and am not afraid of swimsuits. Keep having fun at Curves!

Best, Christine

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calzephyr

Totally! It's crazy how traumatizing gym class can be...people always think you don't care or are lazy or something.

I have seen a lot of neat fibre sculptures at the art college, I have no idea how they put them together though! What sort of things do you make from wood? I'm really liking working with clay - there's something so nice about it.

Oh, my textile fantasies! LOL...

Now that you mention it, a Dremmel would be very handy for a lot of things. My birthday is coming up in October, now I know what to ask hubs for :-D When I was taking Painting 101 and we had to build our own canvas, I seriously thought about getting a nail gun :-)

I'll write more tomorrow...we have a tornado warning and I gotta batten down the hatches :-)

Best, Christine

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calzephyr

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