Flame Painting on Titanium, Weekend Class- Heidi Mandich

Flame Painting on Titanium, Weekend Class- Heidi Mandich

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10/18/2025 (one day)
9:00 AM-4:00 PM EDT on Sat
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$100.00

Flame Painting on Titanium, Weekend Class- Heidi Mandich

Class | Available

Weekend Workshop: Saturday October 18th 9am to 5pm
Flame Painting Titanium -  Create gorgeous colors with Fire!


INSTRUCTOR: Heidi Mandich

Discover the fun of creating beautiful, colorful jewelry "painting'' with a torch. During this workshop, we will learn safe studio practices as we explore the colorful world of flame painting titanium. In addition to learning to create colors, we will learn some basic silversmithing skills such as adding textures and surface designs, forming and shaping, sawing, sanding and filing. Plus, since titanium cannot be soldered, we will learn cold connections such as riveting and tab setting.

We will make a color template first to get a sense of timing to achieve colors; then make a cuff bracelet. We will review sawing and make a pair of matched earrings; then learn to use 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.

Lab 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 above projects. You will have leftover titanium to create pieces of your own as well. 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: $125 (includes Titanium for sample, bracelet and earrings, plus leftover to create your own pieces, along with Argentium Silver 940 for ear wires and copper, brass or Argentium for rivets)

Estimated Materials Fee: I will have additional Titanium for purchase along with Argentium 940 Silver (offered at the same price set by the school for Sterling silver) as well as copper, brass sheet and wire.

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 sharon@lapidaryschool.org to arrange lodging.

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.