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Creative Cloisonne´ Class 1
Develop Your Visual & Enamel Vocabulary

The Modules

Each module includes visual thinking & enamel exercises
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"
  • Understand "Layer Architecture"
  • 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
  • Color "outside of the lines"
Module 3: Lines and Shapes
  • Discover lines and shapes in your world
  • Begin with the simple shapes: squares, circles, triangles
  • Change them
  • Add Value and Color
  • Translate into enamel elements using wires, colors, foils
Module 4: Patterns
  • Combine lines to create patterns
  • Combine Shapes to create patterns
  • Add Value and Color
  • Make enamel patterns using wires, colors, foils
  • Use  creativity skills to change your patterns
Module 5: Combinations
  • Combine lines to create patterns
  • Combine shapes to create new shapes
  • Combine lines to create new lines
  • Translate into enamel elements using wires, colors, foils
  • Combine wires, colors, foils
Module 6: Make it Personal
  • Explore how other artists "make it personal"
  • Personal Visual Images: Icons, Silhouettes, and Symbols
  • Add Value and Color
  • 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.
 "Live in Color; Because Life is not Black & White"
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