Friday, October 17, 2008
CLASS FULL
Shadow Box Shrines - 6 hour class $145 Laurie Mika
Student Level: All Skill Levels
Workshop Description:
Please join me for an intensive, technique driven and fun day of extreme mixed media. In creating our shadow box shrines, students will learn a variety of overlapping techniques that include: mosaic design, painting, rubber stamping, collage, embossing, beading, and embedding just about anything into polymer clay. The result will be a personal and beautiful mixed media mosaic shrine that has a recessed area to hold a small relic or a special photo. This will be a hands-on class where students will get the experience of making and baking their own tiles and component parts.
Kit Fee $20.00
Payable to teacher at beginning of class. Teacher will supply: Shadow box frames with hangers attached, white tiles to be painted, clay blades, scalpels, shrink plastic, acrylic paint, mica powder, embossing powder, rub n Buff, gold gel pens, jewelry glue, ink pads, seed beads, extra commercial tile
Student Supply List:
-3 small (2 ounce) packages of the same color Premo or Sculpey III --polymer clay
-Rolling pin or rod-PVC pipe works too
-Assorted paintbrushes to include a fine detail brush
-A few rubber stamps (if you have them) with frame shapes, texture and alphabet stamps.
-A small bottle of Weldbond glue-can be found at Ace Hardware stores or online.
-A bag or two of small mosaic tiles to fill in gaps.
-A small item or picture to place inside the center of the shrine (has to be less than 2 inches high.)see pics for ideas
-Doo-dads to personalize your tiles like charms, buttons, rhinestones, jewelry parts, and Milagros. (see pics for ideas)
