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Altered Surface Charms
Susan Lenart Kazmer
Add color, layer and style to your metalwork. Learn personal methods, formulas and techniques for altering, patterning and coloring the surface of sheet metal. Work with hand made traditional and nontraditional formulas to create colorful patinas or emulate artifacts from a lost civilization. Build dimensional pieces by dapping, folding, forming and cold join manipulation. Use these altered metal pieces to build a unique charm bracelet. Jewelry techniques include clean up, polishing, design, color and layout of ideas.
Kit Fee: $20
Supply List:
- wire snips
- needle nose
- chain nose pliers
- tin snips or jeweler saw
- bench pin and blades
- metal files
- small hammer
- anvil
Optional: - vice
- small personal or found objects
- paper images
- scrap metal
Kit fee Includes: - copper and brass sheet metal
- sandpaper
- patina solutions
- eyelets
- hand out and expendables
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During my studies at the Art Institute of Chicago and Southern Illinois University, I focused on embellishment, fiber and metals. I now create elaborate one of a kind pieces for adornment, from found objects, deep with spiritual and historical meaning. As a professional artist and jewelry designer, my work has been exhibited in museums, such as the Smithsonian Museum of Art, Huntington Museum of Art and the Ohio Craft Museum. On the technical side I just completed my first book called, “MAKING CONNECTIONS- A HANDBOOK OF COLD JOINS FOR JEWELERS AND MIXED MEDIA ARTSITS. I teach workshops and recently am involved with the American Craft Council Shows. Recent awards include Most Innovative Use of the Medium, for Bead International 2006, Telly Award 2006 for a Public television artist profile.
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