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Class # 2 : Use Design to "Put it together"
Combine & Organize your Cloisonne´ Vocabulary

Six Weeks of Coaching: Opens June 5 - July 3, 2021

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Principles

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

  • Strata
  • Grid
  • Horizontal
  • Vertical
  • Radial
  • Cruciform
  • Border & Focal
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 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.
 "Live in Color; Because Life is not Black & White"
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    • Small Pendants
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    • Chokers
    • Bracelets
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    • What is Cloisonne´?
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