Introducing my new
Creative Cloisonne´ Program
"The Creative Color Workshop"
Use cloisonne´ enamel to
Discover, Explore, and Embrace
Your "Artistic Enamel Voice"
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Join me on a 6-week
Creative Enamel Adventure!
It's not an online video class.
It's a small group "mentoring" experience.
The "Creative Color" Cloisonne´ Workshop
Discover your "enamel happy dance".
Embrace your enamel "vision and voice".
Why?
I want to be "in love" with my creative and artistic process so that I will...
- do it more often
- put in the work necessary to improve
- make more artwork
- feel excited about being in my studio
- feel more inspired
- not feel afraid to fail
- feel connected to what I am making
What?
Here are some of the changes you will make...
- advance your enamel foundation skills and knowledge
- advance you enamel foundation skills and knowledge
- create a new enamel layer "toolbox" to help you develop new enamel vocabulary
- develop new creative mindsets to explore design, your creative process, and your self-expression
- discover and explore your "Why" questions to learn to trust your inner compass
- become more self-aware as you combine your changes to embrace your enamel "vocabulary, vision, and voice"
How?
An 6-week program to combine video tutorials, live/interactive classes, and a robust online workbook/forum.
Explore the art and craft of enameling as you begin to embrace your enamel vision and voice.
Explore the art and craft of enameling as you begin to embrace your enamel vision and voice.
- video tutorials (live and recorded)
- weekly Zoom class to guide you, inspire, connect, and share
- weekly "office hours" Zoom meeting to problem-solve and provide feedback/critique
- weekly assignments to move you step by step along your journey
- stay engaged with an online workbook that combines a blog, photo-sharing, discussion, and questions
- tap directly into my enamel experience (43 year years and counting) for 6 weeks!
What Changes will you make?
You will ...
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Create NEW vocabulary with enamel, foils, and wires
Learn how to make and design with
Ricky's "7 Enamel Layers"
Here's a video peek into my virtual classroom.
A big question: How do I move "beyond technique"?
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I share my techniques from the "inside-out"
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What keeps me from finding my enamel Vision and Voice?
This has been the most challenging part of my enameling career.
I used to...
try be "perfect".
struggle to allow myself time to play.
think that there was a "right answer".
want someone to show me the "right way".
believe that I didn't have a meaningful "story" to tell.
collect more techniques so that I would "improve".
feel like I must always be making something that I "liked".
stay safely in my comfort zone.
be unaware of WHY I wanted to create.
struggle to allow myself time to play.
think that there was a "right answer".
want someone to show me the "right way".
believe that I didn't have a meaningful "story" to tell.
collect more techniques so that I would "improve".
feel like I must always be making something that I "liked".
stay safely in my comfort zone.
be unaware of WHY I wanted to create.
Can you relate to any of this?
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
—CARL JUNG
Here is what I've learned as I've searched for
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What empowers me to make something "personal"?
I see, hear, or imagine something that touches a part of me.
I feel connected and need to share it.
I ask myself WHY and WHAT.
And this leads me to the HOW.
Instead of learning techniques and hoping that I can get "good enough" to make meaningful artwork,
our workshop flips it and begins with the WHY questions.
If I don't know my why, how do I know what to learn and what "good enough" is?
our workshop flips it and begins with the WHY questions.
If I don't know my why, how do I know what to learn and what "good enough" is?
It's difficult to connect
when you are the audience.
Which do you think is more helpful?
1. Watch and listen to me tell you how to do it and then you try to follow my directions. or 2. Watch, listen, do it, and then have a "live" conversation about it ? What were your challenges?
What were your questions? What did you discover? What did you love? How might you do it next time? |
These are the kinds of discussions that I LOVE in my classrooms!
I connect to others who are facing similar challenges
and this helps me feel connected to myself.
Connection is the key to the doorway into the personal!
"I am not here to "teach you MY successes".
I am here to support your journey towards YOUR process of discovery. |
I share what I know and what I have learned.
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My classes and programs are not for everyone. It depends what you want.
Many craft classes take this approach:
The instructor...
When you return to your studio, you try to remember what you did so that you can make something that you like once again. |
I take a different approach:
I encourage you to...
When you return to your studio, you are not afraid to play and experiment to discover what you like. You don't feel afraid of failing because you understand how to teach yourself to create. |
Should I study with Ricky Frank?
Yes or No?
Yes,
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No,
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I've found that letting go of a "right way" approach helps me feel more playful, creative, and inspired.
What do YOU want?
Who?
Choose the Program that's right for you.
The "Novice" Program
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The "Apprentice" Program
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Included with each workshop is a FREE mini-course. It's available for two weeks prior to and during our workshop.
Enamel Foundations and Cloisonne´ Basics
I've designed this course to help get you up to speed on how I make my enamels so that you can hit the ground running.
The course will be available for the length of the workshop (eight weeks) plus any additional time that the workshop lessons are available for post-workshop review.
Learn about:
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These workshops not for beginners!
Students must have a basic understanding of the enameling process.
This includes...
Disclaimer:This class also requires that you be willing to "think" as you move beyond searching for the "right answer"
and discover the "many possible questions" that will lead you to YOUR answers. If you want "paint by number" tutorials, my classes are not for you.
Students must have a basic understanding of the enameling process.
This includes...
- applying wet (paint brush) and dry (sifted)
- cutting out a metal shape
- firing with either a torch or a kiln
- an understanding of common enamel science principles
Disclaimer:This class also requires that you be willing to "think" as you move beyond searching for the "right answer"
and discover the "many possible questions" that will lead you to YOUR answers. If you want "paint by number" tutorials, my classes are not for you.
Here is what some of my students are saying...
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Ricky, although I had been enameling several years my work did not take direction and focus until I came to Atlanta and took a class from you. The things I learned in those three days were profound and was exactly what I needed to take my work to another level.
Gina Eubanks
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\When I first started watching your videos, I kept thinking why is he asking "why" all the time? Well, you have me hooked. I'm finding myself thinking about "why and why not" all the time now, and all the possibilities that asking that leads to
Margaret Garza
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As Simon Sinek covers in his book, Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Action, knowing your "why" is critically important in life. It is this focus that Ricky Frank employs to help artists/enamelists understand why they are doing something. He then guides students to build on their "why" as they execute their "what" (jewelry/vessel/wall piece) and "how" (enamel & metal techniques).
Cullen Hackler
Cullen Hackler
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I like that you have taken time before presenting the technical aspects of enameling, to discuss the mental/emotional landscape of the artistic process. I have taken other art classes, and have never had another teacher walk me through this. That, in itself, is just priceless to me.
Mary Caldwell
Mary Caldwell
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He talks about the process of learning, the process of mastery, the process of letting the artist inside you "emerge." He's a mentor of the best kind. He teaches, but isn't pedantic about it. His approach is "Here's what I know, what I do and how I do it, but it was a process for me and it'll be a process for you." He teaches you how to answer your own questions. Every lesson isn't just instructional, it's inspiring, liberating and empowering. I'm an engineer, not an artist, and, being me, I started out looking for answers, knowledge, details, details, how-to, how-to. Ricky has given me mountains of that, but probably the most valuable thing I've gained is that now when I sit down at my bench I'm not worried about producing something "good," or the value of my time or the value of my materials or whether I'm meeting some goal.
I'm in the process of becoming an enamelist and Ricky brilliantly enables that process.
Trish Morman
I'm in the process of becoming an enamelist and Ricky brilliantly enables that process.
Trish Morman
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My WHY
"I am fascinated with how light passes through our environment; sunlight through the trees in the forest, light behind the clouds in the sky, and light bouncing off the surface of the ocean or lake, or through the various large and small waterfalls of a stream or river. I feel a sense of awe when I experience these phenomena. I spent 8 weeks each summer from the age of 10-15 at a YMCA camp in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. The natural beauty that surrounded me each day left an impression that still resonates within.
Now my family prefers the beach to the mountains. I love both! Enamel seems like a perfect media for me: I can capture the light through the layers, and the combination of art and science plays perfectly into the different parts of my experience. It's not just problem-solving; it's creativity and expression. It's my story, expressed in enamel, that I choose to share. I work to develop my skills, both technical and aesthetic, so that I can share my sense of "awe" with others as I use my enamel vocabulary to sing my enamel song to share my enamel vision. |