Class # 2 : Use Design to "Put it together"
Combine & Organize your Cloisonne´ Vocabulary
Six Weeks of Coaching: Opens June 5 - July 3, 2021

Principles

• Contrast
• Variety
• Repetition
• Balance
• Harmony
• Movement

Combinations

• Lines & Shapes
• Combine your Icons, Silhouettes, & Symbols
• Different types of cloisonne´ wires
• Color Layers
• Bridges that connect your color areas
• visual images & personal experiences
• thumbnail sketches and enamel vocabulary

Formats

• Strata
• Grid
• Horizontal
• Vertical
• Radial
• Cruciform
• Border & Focal

 Class #2 Modules

Each module includes visual thinking & enamel exercises
Each lesson is broken down into small, simple steps that gradually improve your skills.
Use the visual and enamel vocabulary that you have developed in Class #1

Module 1: Introduction

• Practice the 5 C's: Collect, Crop, Change, Combine, & Connect
• Combine Learning & Performing
• Internalize your enamel colors
• The Color Wheel
• Let Go of self-limiting rules & beliefs
• Challenge yourself to step outside of your comfort zone

Module 2:  Combine Patterns

• Patterns and Line Combinations
• Pattern and Shape Combinations
• Fit a Pattern into a Shape
• Patterns with Round Wires and Twisted Wires
  •  Patterns and Icons/Silhouettes 
  • Combine Persona images with lines, shapes, and patterns

Module 3: Borders

• Lines as Borders: Use different types of wires
• Shapes as Borders: wire, enamel, enamel color shapes
• Patterns as Borders
• Color  and Value Gradation Borders
• Foil Borders
• Symbols as Borders

Module 4: Design Principles

• Contrast
• Repetition
• Variety
• Movement
• Balance
• Harmony

Module 5: Color Schemes

• Consider the importance of Value over Color
• The Color Wheel
• Monochromatic Color Schemes
• Analogous Color Schemes
• Complementary & Split Complementary
• Use opaque, transparent, and opalescent enamel colors

Module 6: Formats

• Learn to use Formats as composition tools
• Grids
• Horizontal and Vertical
• Radial
• Strata
• Cruciform

Module 7: Put it all together!

• Play with Patterns, Borders, Design Principles, & Formats
• Use your Icons, Silhouettes, and Symbols
• Add Value and Color
• Combine Personal Images with lines, shapes, and patterns
• Translate into enamel elements using wires, colors, foils
• Dialogue with your artwork
• What can you change?
• Make something that you like

Creative Cloisonne´ Class #2
Our Goals

• Combine and Organize our different visual and enamel elements
• Draw thumbnail sketches of patterns, borders, and formats
• Break out of your "color comfort zone" with different Color Schemes
• Ask "What if" questions as you change and combine your images
• Create more choices for yourself: Borders and Formats
• Use Design Principles to combine your visual and enamel elements and make your images exciting
• Advance your enamel Vision and Voice
• Create self-imposed limitations to help you focus and not feel overwhelmed.