Wanaree Tanner - Creating Unique Metal Clay Stone Settings with a Silhouette CAMEO® Cutter
March 5-6
In addition to learning how to build a metal clay setting, working with PMC Paper and PMC+, get started with the Silhouette Studio software, and use Scratch-Foam® and "Scrappliqué," students in this exciting two-day workshop will learn all about:
- how to set your stone and secure your gallery bezel wire
- set up your Silhouette Cameo cutter, calibrating your machine to cut paper clay
- roll out your own paper type clay with copper, bronze, and silver clays.
- deal with distortion, how to correctly fire metal clay, especially bronze and copper clays
- and manipulate your fired work and stone settings.
About Wanaree
Wanaree Tanner is an award winning, primarily self-taught, full time artist, with a love for illustration and a fascination with world mythologies. She started working in metal clay in 2008 and quickly became obsessed with turning two dimensional drawings into three dimensional forms. When copper clay hit the open market, she bought her first pack and never looked back. After two years of experimenting and dreaming, she’s feels she’s finally able to bring the forms lurking in her mind into reality.
She travels to art shows around the country, has written articles for Art Jewelry, Metal Clay Today, Metal Clay Artist Magazine and is the video editor for MCAM’s Resource Library.
See more of her beautiful work at her website: www.artwarebywanaree.com.
She travels to art shows around the country, has written articles for Art Jewelry, Metal Clay Today, Metal Clay Artist Magazine and is the video editor for MCAM’s Resource Library.
See more of her beautiful work at her website: www.artwarebywanaree.com.
Skill level: Intermediate to advanced
2 Days, 9:30am to 5:00pm, $375.
Registration for this class has closed.