Flame Painting on Titanium, Level I Weekend Class- Heidi Mandich

Flame Painting on Titanium, Level I Weekend Class- Heidi Mandich

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4/26/2024-4/27/2024

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$100.00

WORKSHOP: WEEKEND FLAME PAINTING ON TITANIUM

INSTRUCTOR: HEIDI MANDICH

 

Discover the fun of creating beautiful, colorful jewelry “painting” with a torch. During our weekend, we will learn safe studio practices as we explore the colorful world of flame painting titanium. We will learn the basics of creating colors, as well as adding textures and surface designs, forming and shaping, sanding & filing. Since titanium cannot be soldered, we will learn cold connections such as riveting and tab setting. We will begin with an overview, basics, and sample projects. We will make a color template first to get a sense of timing to achieve colors and then make a cuff bracelet. Next, we will review sawing and choose a pattern to saw to make a pair of earrings. After sawing, we will look at using a disc cutter to cut shapes as well as dapping forms to add dimension and riveting to connect pieces. The balance of the workshop will be an opportunity to create your own work under the guidance of your instructor. The class fee includes printed materials for techniques and step by step detailed instructions for projects, along with consumables (fuel, solder, flux, torches, drill bits, saw blades, solder brick, sandpaper, us of tools, equipment, specialty tools provided by the instructor) and materials for the above projects. Please wear closed toed shoes and have eye protection – safety glasses, glasses, or readers are fine. If you have long hair, please have a way to tie it back. I will have Titanium for purchase along with Argentium Sterling Silver, copper, brass sheet as well as wire.

 

Class Fee: $150 (includes first 2 projects)

Est Materials Fee: $0+

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.

Mandich, Heidi

Heidi first discovered her passion for metalsmithing while taking a class at the Indianapolis Art Center in 2006. Using hammers, saws, fire and imagination, Heidi enjoys taking simple sterling silver sheet and wire and turning it into unique jewelry for people to enjoy and treasure. She continues to learn from experts in the field every year. “Metalwork…reshaping and reforming metal to become something you have envisioned is exciting …especially when it becomes what was in your head.”

In 2010 Heidi was asked to teach at the Indianapolis Art Center in the same studio where she first learned. She discovered her greatest joy is helping adult students find the same passion of using fire and tools to create jewelry from simple pieces of metal.

In 2011, Heidi took early retirement from her “day job” to follow her passion full time. She does art fairs throughout the Midwest, and continues to teach at the Indianapolis Art Center, and other venues, including William Holland in 2022 (after a 2 year wait 2020-2021). In and around these, she pursues learning opportunities to continue to grow creatively.

In 2014 Heidi was selected to join Indiana Artisans, a juried organization representing the best of art in Indiana as well as CCA Gallery, the oldest member owned coop art gallery in Indiana. In 2022, Heidi was invited to join Art IN Hand; another juried coop art gallery established in 2000, in Zionsville, Indiana. In 2022 & 2023, she was selected as a finalist for the Skip McKinney Faculty of the Year Award at the Indianapolis Art Center.