996115 E-Class: Ghost Flowers Beginner Class with Julie Anne Denton

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This course is designed for learning the key techniques to gain the confidence to begin to work with borosilicate glass on a larger scale.

This workshop is designed to gently introduce the sculptural beginner to a larger scale off mandrel form exercise in borosilicate glass. The sculpture will be large but will bebroken down into manageable bite size chunks throughout the course. The ghost flower sculpture will be made in components during this one day class. The flower can be up to 40 cm tall depending on how confident you feel and how far you are willing to push your own boundaries. We shall focus on the use of multiples as a way to create a more complex form, we will utilize glass ‘bridges’ to help us construct the form easily and the flower will demonstrate just how versatile borosilicate glass can be. We will learn how to keep the heat in our borosilicate forms during the making process. Thereafter we will learn how to control the heat in our glass and pull those sensuous forms you desire by using the inner heat in the glass to your advantage, or by using that natural phenomenon: gravity.

By the end of this 12 demo workshop not only will we have created a large glass flower but we will also learn how to safely use a sandblaster with our 'fragile' flameworked objects to ghostify our finished object without breaking it. After completing this workshop your confidence using borosilicate glass will have risen considerably.

Class includes one complimentary one on one zoom consultation with ZGS founder Dr Julie Anne Denton to help you with the tricky bits, whilst receiving personal help and encouragement with the projects. It is advisable to use this consultation as our participants find them invaluable.

You can work through this course at your own pace. After purchase allow 24 hours to be granted access to the Julie 2: Ghost Flower channel. You will have three months unlimited access to your channel from this point. Please be patient until you receive the email that grants you access to your channel, and the shared dropbox folder containing all the demo transcriptions to help you with each exercise, PDFs of demonstration steps plus photographs of what you should be aiming for. Transcribed demos are available upon request in 30 different languages.

Skill Level: Own torch or access to a flameworking studio is a necessity. Experience in flameworking is helpful, but not a necessity.