The Creative Cloisonne´ Program

Class 1 : Create your Cloisonne´ Vocabulary
Explore  visual and enamel Design Elements
Six Weeks of Coaching

Class #1: Explore questions about visual/enamel vocabulary, creativity, and self-expression.
You will improve your ability to see design elements and translate them into enamel elements.
You will begin the process of making the techniques "your own".
You will develop a more personal approach to cloisonne´ design.

Create your new Cloisonne´ Vocabulary using ...

Wires

• Create wire lines & shapes
  
• Thick & Think wires
• Tall & Short wires
• Round & Square wires
• Corrugated & Twisted wires
• Wires sawed from metal sheet
  

Enamel Colors

• Transparent, Opaque, & Opalescent enamel color combinations
  
• Loud & Quiet enamel vocabulary
• Enamel Edges
• Color & Value Gradations
• Color "outside the lines"

Foils

• Foil lines & shapes
• Foil Patterns
• Overlapped foil layers
• Sgraffito foil layers
• Silver, Gold, & Copper Foil
  
• Foil overlays
  

Class #1 Modules
6 Weeks of Coaching

Each module includes visual thinking & enamel lessons
Each lesson is broken down into small, simple steps that gradually improve your skills.
You do not need to be able to draw!

Module 1: Introduction

• Brainstorm to jump start your Creativity
  
• Change your Questions
• Permission to Fail: Make BAD artwork as a "point of departure"
• Let's Collect  & Crop Images
• Let Go of self-limiting rules & beliefs
• Learn to create your "personal tutorials
  

Module 2: Techniques

• Play with alternative wires: short/tall, thick/thin, round, twisted
• Create enamel edges
• Apply enamel into cloisonne´ cells
• Silver and Gold foil applications
• Create lines, shapes, and patterns with a diamond burr
• Explore "Layer Architecture"
  

Module 3: Lines and Shapes

• Collect Lines & Shapes
  
• Lesson 2: Make Your Lines
• Make YOUR Shapes
• Change Your Shapes
• Combine YOUR shapes
• Play with your Lines and Shapes

Module 4: Patterns

• Combine Lines to Create Patterns
  
• Combine Shapes to create patterns
• Combine Lines & Shapes to Create Patterns
• Visual Brainstorming with Lines, Shapes, & Patterns
• Play with your enamel lines and shapes

Module 5: Combinations

• Combine lines to create new lines
  
• Combine shapes to create new shapes
• Combine lines to create new lines
• Translate into enamel elements using wires, colors, foils
• Combine Your Enamel Elements

Module 6: Make it Personal

• Explore how other artists "make it personal"
• Develop Personal Visual Images: Icons, Silhouettes, and Symbols
  
• Add Value and Color to your personal visual images
  
• Combine Personal Images with lines, shapes, and patterns
  
• Translate into enamel elements using wires, colors, foils
  

Module 7: Put it all together!

• Play with your new vocabulary see what is possible
  
• Begin to focus on "Liking what you make"
• Learn to dialogue with your artwork
• Evaluate with questions beyond "Do I like it?"
  

Creative Cloisonne´ Class #1
Our Goals

• Become fluent with lines, shapes, and patterns
• Become comfortable drawing "thumbnail sketches"; let go of the fear that you cannot draw "well enough"
• Ask "What if" questions as you change and combine your lines, shapes, and patterns
• Add Value (how dark or light) and Color to your lines, shapes, patterns
• Translate your lines, shapes, and patterns into Cloisonne´ materials: wires, enamel, foils
• Find a personal connection to your images: create personal icons, silhouettes, and symbols
• Translate your personal visual images into enamel imagery that combines wires, enamel, and foils
• Discover how other artists "do it" and try different approaches to find your own way.