Weekend Cold Connections - Dolores Osborne - Hensley

Weekend Cold Connections - Dolores Osborne - Hensley

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11/1/2024-11/3/2024

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$100.00

COLD CONNECTIONS (Weekend Class)

INSTRUCTOR: DELORES OSBORNE-HENSLEY

 

This class for beginners will cover basic skills of working with copper metal, metal cutting sheers and handsaw, filing, embellishing, and learning to connect two or three pieces of metal together without heat. We will cover basic riveting, stone tab settings, hammer texturing, patina technique, and more. Several projects will be planned that will encompass numerous aspects of cold connections that you can use for more projects at home. The 3 projects are pictured below, these will be the projects for the class. The class fee includes instructions, metal, wire, and connecting elements needed to complete the class projects, plus an accent stone, necklace chain or leather cord, and ear wires. In this class, students will produce these creative jewelry pieces and learn the basics for a strong foundation to pursue other lapidary arts. The school has basic tool kits for student use, but you are welcome to bring your own. I will also have tools for sale if you are interested.

 

Class Fee: $65

Est Material Cost: $0 to $100

Prerequisites: None

 

*WH TUITION: $100 Includes Breakfast and Boxed Lunch. No additional charge for lodging if taking a class, the week before or after, $60 lodging fee if needed. Please email tami@lapidaryschool.org to arrange lodging.


Osborne-Hensley, Dolores

Dolores is an Air Force veteran, who traveled around the world, collecting sea glass, shells, stones, fossils, and semi-precious stones just waiting to be incorporated into wearable creations. After retiring from the armed forces, she opened The Wild Bead and Boutique, in Montgomery, Alabama, where she taught beading, embroidery beading, jewelry, and cold connections. Her first class at William Holland was cold connections with Kim St. Jean, where her love of manipulating metals into creative wearable art began. She is self-taught artist, but classes at William Holland have helped her advance her creations to a higher level. Dolores loves meeting and nurturing other artists and was a 12-year active member of the Montgomery Gem and Mineral Society and held the role of Vice President, Newsletter Editor, and Annual Gem and Mineral Show Manager, but recently transferred her membership to the Alabama Mineral and Lapidary Society, in Birmingham, Alabama to explore more rock digs, classes and meet other rock lovers. Dolores is a member of the Pike Road, Alabama Art Guild and teaches cold connection classes to the public and art guild members. Her other lapidary passions consist of rock hounding, cutting semi-precious stone slabs and shaping cabochons.