Intermediate Glass Beadmaking with Diane Cain
This intermediate-level beadmaking class will introduce new tools and techniques for beadmaking with soft glass (COE 104). Artist/instructor Diane Cain will demonstrate and share ideas for creative tools and techniques that will enhance your options for making lampwork beads including:
- Shaping beads using bead rollers and bead presses
- Adding interest with texture plates and stamps
- Making more complex twisties and dot patterns
- Clear encasement to enhance beads
- Frit beads enhanced with raking and scrolling
- Making multiple spacer beads on one mandrel
- Interesting reactions using enamels, silver leaf, and warm/cool color combinations
Create a variety of beads using her tools and guidance. Learn something new in the glass studio on Friday afternoons and add to your skills. Prerequisite: This hands-on class is appropriate for beadmakers who are confident making round beads with soft glass. Not for beginners. Please bring your favorite 104 COE glass bead rods/colors, with ivory and clear being important colors to bring.