Flame Painting on Titanium, Level I - Heidi Mandich

Flame Painting on Titanium, Level I - Heidi Mandich

Class | Registration opens 12/2/2024 9:00 AM EST

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

Flame Painting on Titanium, Level I - Heidi Mandich

Class | Registration opens 12/2/2024 9:00 AM EST

FLAME PAINTING TITANIUM: CREATE GORGEOUS COLORS, FUSE ARGENTIUM AND ADD COLD CONNECTIONS TO CREATE BEAUTIFUL JEWELRY
INSTRUCTOR: HEIDIE 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 they really value the refresher on fundamental skills.

During the week, 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 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.