FLAME PAINTING TITANIUM: CREATE GORGEOUS COLORS, FUSE ARGENTIUM AND ADD COLD CONNECTIONS TO CREATE BEAUTIFUL JEWELRY INSTRUCTOR: HEIDI MANDICH

FLAME PAINTING TITANIUM: CREATE GORGEOUS COLORS, FUSE ARGENTIUM AND ADD COLD CONNECTIONS TO CREATE BEAUTIFUL JEWELRY INSTRUCTOR: HEIDI MANDICH

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4/27/2025-5/2/2025
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$200.00

FLAME PAINTING TITANIUM: CREATE GORGEOUS COLORS, FUSE ARGENTIUM AND ADD COLD CONNECTIONS TO CREATE BEAUTIFUL JEWELRY INSTRUCTOR: HEIDI MANDICH

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FLAME PAINTING TITANIUM: CREATE GORGEOUS COLORS, FUSE ARGENTIUM AND ADD COLD CONNECTIONS TO CREATE BEAUTIFUL JEWELRY
INSTRUCTOR: HEIDI MANDICH

 Discover the fun of creating beautiful, colorful jewelry "painting" with a torch. This is a great first class in silversmithing. You'll gain comfort using a torch and learn fundamental metalsmithing skills as you create your work. For those  who already  have  experience, students  say t hey  really  value  the re fresher on fundamental skills.

During  the  week,  we  will l earn  safe  studio  practices as we  explore the  colorful  world  of f lame  painting titanium.  We  will  learn  the  basics  of  creating  colors,  as  well  as  adding  textures  and  surface  designs, forming  and  shaping  by  creating  a  bracelet  and  a  pair  of  matched earrings. Next,  we  will  add  Argentium sterling  silver,  learning  to  fuse  it  and  to use  as  a  layer  of  embellishment.  Since  titanium  cannot be soldered,  we  will  explore cold connections such  as  riveting  and  tab setting.

The week will begin with an overview, basics and sample projects. The balance of the week will be an opportunity to create your own work under the guidance of your instructor. Students have created pendants, necklaces, more bracelets, earrings, even a choker, belt buckle and a dragon. 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, use of tools, equipment, specialty tools provided by the instructor) and materials for the first days' projects.

Please wear closed-toed shoes and have eye protection - glasses or readers are fine or safety glasses. If you  have  long  hair  please  have  a  way  to  tie  It  back.

 

Class Fee: $195  -  Includes first  2  projects with  leftover  Titanium to  create  your  own  pieces
Est. Materials Fee:  $50- $150+  (Includes  Titanium  and  Argentium  Sterling  Sliver  at  market  price  with  the  benefit of  Instructor's  volume  discount). Some tools will  also  be  available for  purchase.

Mandich, Heidi
Heidi Mandich

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.