The "Creative Enamel" Program
Let your "enamel light" shine!
Discover your enamel "happy dance"!
I am a self-taught enamel jewelry artist.
I've created a program to share the many different ways that I have challenged myself to learn, improve, and master my craft.
I've created a program to share the many different ways that I have challenged myself to learn, improve, and master my craft.
Online courses for all levels.
"Self-paced" or "Six-Weeks with Coaching"
Courses that combine..
All lessons can be completed with either a torch or a kiln!
Streaming access to the course's video lessons for ONE YEAR! |
Why I designed the "Creative Enamel" Program?
Early in my enameling career, I hit the proverbial wall. I was stuck, confused, and did not know how to move forward. I gave up and chose to pursue a new career in sport psychology. Little did I know that studying peak performance would lead me full circle into explorations of my own creative process. After completing my Master's degree, I re-invented myself and the rest is history (at least MY history). Read More...
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"your teaching method was transformative for me as both an enamel technician and an artist"
-Candie P
Different ways to learn in the "Creative Enamel" Program
The "Self-Paced"
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The "Six Weeks with Coaching"
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The "Enamel Challenge"
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The Challenge: Creative Enamel Quest
What are your enameling goals?
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These are important questions to ask yourself.
What do you want?
If you want to...
The Creative Enamel Courses are for you.
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Why is this so challenging and difficult?
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This is a lot to consider? No wonder it's confusing and overwhelming.
Find your artistic voice and vision
with enamel.
Make enamels that come from your heart!
Discover, embrace, and let your light shine! |
Allow yourself to "paint outside of the lines".
Let go of needing to be in control and have the right answers! |
Find your inspiration and dream big dreams. Or small dreams. But make them YOUR dreams.
Find your own way, your own vocabulary, your own vision, your own voice.
Believe in yourself, re-connect with yourself, and share YOUR enamel light.
Wouldn't it be fantastic if...
enameling could bring a sense of joy and purpose into your life?
Are you feeling stuck? Like you are missing something? And maybe you don't even know what you are missing?
Have you found that collecting new techniques may not be the way to bring JOY and PURPOSE into your life?
Have you found that collecting new techniques may not be the way to bring JOY and PURPOSE into your life?
I've created the Creative Enamel Color Course to...
- help you discover what to change and how to change it.
- guide you through a challenging process using simple steps and skills
- coach you: because I believe that you can make the transformation that you seek!
Creative Enamel Color
The Creative Mindset Skills
Design
Understand and see Design elements
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Creativity
Become more Creative.
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Self-Expression
Make artwork that speaks from your heart.
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Do you want to...
Make personal and meaningful enamel artwork that you love!
This requires a combination of different skills...
- Create your Visual Vocabulary: Learn to see design elements (shapes, lines, color, values, patterns) and design principles in the world around you.
- Create your Enamel Vocabulary: learn and practice the skills, science, materials, and tools so that you can make enamel images.
- Translate your Visual Vocabulary into Enamel Images using your Enamel Vocabulary. How can you use enamel, foils, or wires to create your design elements and apply design principles?
- Become a Visual Story-teller: Explore and Combine images, feelings, and relationships.
- Connect with YOUR personal narratives. Understand why you CARE? Make it personal.
- Tell your Stories using your Enamel Vocabulary using Design Principles.
- Use your Creativity to make your stories/artwork exciting and compelling.
Each one of these is a SKILL. It's not a "talent".
Skills develop through practice, focus, and commitment.
Do you have these skills?
Does a lack of skill in any of these areas limited you?
How?
The good news is that YOU CAN LEARN AND IMPROVE THESE SKILLS!
The Creative Enamel Color Course
The Creative Enamel Color Course
- provides a structure and a plan to help you build these skills incrementally.
- uses mini-goals to help you achieve mini-successes. Small and simple steps to learn skill and feel confident.
- guides you through the many challenges you will face.
- challenges you and supports you as you step outside of your comfort zone.
- offers you flexibility so that you can focus on the skills that will help you achieve your goals.
- will will help you focus, step away from your fears and anxiety, and bring a sense of joy and purpose into your life
If you want someone to teach you how to make a “souvenir” project, take a class from someone else who teaches that way. If you want to learn the details of enamel work (and are willing to put in effort on your own), then this may be the class for you. If you want to develop your own style and artistic voice (and you already know some enameling basics), then this is definitely the class for you.- Bill O
What is keeping you from making the enamel artwork of your dreams?
Here is where I was stuck...
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Group Mentoring
Makes your learning come alive.
(Six week courses include "group mentoring".)
Combining Zoom classroom discussions and a vibrant Group Forum (without the distractions of Facebook) enables us to talk with each other and not at each other.
- We learn to connect with not only ourselves, but with each other.
- We see new perspectives as students share their "point of view".
- We learn WHY we care about what we are making as we also care about our fellow students.
- We connect with ourselves and with each other.
This becomes a magical group learning experience where transformation can occur.
This is different than any live 5-day workshop that I have seen.
- You have TIME to listen: to ourselves and others. The six-week program takes removes some of the urgency that you often feel in a workshop.
- You feel INSPIRED as you see other students make changes.
- You become part of a culture of LEARNING. There is no pressure that you "need to like everything that you make".
- We work together and share our strengths so that we can improve our weaknesses.
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...the more I thought about why those characteristics were appealing, I was able to reach an emotional response and connect with memories from my childhood. All that to say I am now starting page 4 of brainstorming and understanding what my story is!! Now to brainstorm how to tell that story. This is exactly what I was hoping to get from this class - my story and how to tell it!
-Mary D.
I am your guide and coach.
Here is how I do it.
Let my experience
be your guide...
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Here is what I will do as your coach...
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"What I really appreciate about this online class is having time in between the lesson drops to actually let ideas marinate, contemplate the steps I want/need to make, and then proceeding. I’m learning to let go of the need to have a “finished” piece, even as I advance towards that goal. I am experimenting with ideas that I never would have thought about. I am deep down the rabbit hole now, in an immersion sense, that is penetrating the information deep into my psyche, this is stuff I will not forget."
-Melissa V
Why?
You want to...
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Samples from video tutorials
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What?
Sample from video tutorials
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You will learn...
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How?
You will...
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Samples from video tutorials
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