Op-Art, Silver Glass, Flower Cane, Implosions, and 3D Twists – Astrid Riedel

Hip to be Square/Op-Art

• The art of creating the checkered board pattern in or on a bead
• Encasing your designs without dragging the design
• Encasing a spiral core in the bead
• Fine stringer application and heat control
• Adding 3D OP art illusions to your bead
• Learn to encase a round bead and a lentil shaped bead so no ugly sides stick out!

Silver Glass

• Learn how to reduce the silver glass
• Layering or pleating the silver glass
• Making silver glass murrini
• Making enameled murrini
• Encasing with clear glass
• Creating well-made lentil shaped beads
• Making perfect round encased beads

Making 3D Flower Murrini

• Theory on how the flower murrini’s are build up so you can make any flower using the explained techniques.
• Creating flower stamen
• The building up of the flower petals
• How to apply the murrini on the bead so that your flowers bloom on the bead.

Marble Bead Making – Off Mandrel

• Preparing a small glass plate as a base for the decoration, (done on a punty)
• Making Wig/Wag cane
• Making layered cane
• Making designs with enamels and spiral imprint
• Making spiky implosion in marble bead
• Shaping marbles and inserting a small screw into bead when hot. A bail with a threaded pin will be wound into it. This makes it an interchangeable bead.
• NOTE Special tool is required for this technique.

This class includes glass packs and lunches. We will also have a hot shop dinner the first night of class and a graduation ceremony/ dinner the second to last night of class.