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If you have no etching experience and want to learn all the glass etching techniques, here is where you start! Even many people who have been surface etching for years (but no carving or shading) start here. The Professional Glass Etching Seminar is an intensive 4-day hands-on class covering all three major abrasive etching techniques. This includes surface etching, multi-stage carving, and multi-stage shading. Complete up to 10 projects in this exciting class and learn all about glass etching equipment. In addition, this class covers special techniques and tricks-of-the-trade like controlled glue-chipping, use of photo-resists and use of pre-cut resists.
You
won't believe what you can learn in an intensive class like this.
Enrollment is limited to a maximum of 12 and there are two instructors,
Students have access to 4 blasters and cabinets for maximum time
practicing techniques!
No prior experience
is required to take the class, since it starts from the basics.
However, the class quickly progresses beyond beginner techniques
into the more advanced techniques on the first day. If you have
already been etching glass for several years, but have not yet mastered
the multi-stage techniques of carving and shading, this is the class
for you. Each technique is presented by explanation, demonstration,
then hands-on practice by participants.
The first half
of the first day, we cover surface etching techniques and glass
etching equipment. Students produce a surface etched piece to get
comfortable with operating the equipment and to explore the surface
etching process. Then, we start with basic multi-stage glass
carving techniques on a sample project. The second day is spent
completing a more elaborate multi-stage carving, and students prepare
the piece for glue chipping a border on the third day. During the
second day, we introduce etching on mirror and etching on special
kinds of stained glass, like iridized glass.
This
class really gives you an overview - not just of the techniques,
but a good idea of all the many different applications there are
for etching.
On the third
day, students start the process of controlled glue chipping to create
glue chipped elements throughout their carved project. Primary concentration
on the third day is the multi-stage shading process, with a sample
project and a larger project being completed. On the last day, use
of photo resist and pre-cut resist is introduced, and students learn
the basics of multi-stage etching with photo resists. Several projects
are completed with these special resists, and there is a thorough
discussion of pricing and marketing of etched lass for those interested
in selling their work.
Knowledge
of pre-cut and photo resists not only teaches students how to
complete valuable projects much faster, it also shows how to get
extremely complex designs etched quickly and accurately.
Many
slides of beautiful etched glass from artists around the world are
shown throughout the class. Students receive full notebooks of reference
material and articles and all materials and supplies for class projects
are included. If you are interested in learning etching, don't miss
this great class! (To see photos of some of the many projects completed
in recent classes, go to the NEWS page of this site, then
check out Seminar News!)
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Students are usually hard at work on their first project
by mid-morning of the first day.
Ruth Dobbins explains how to number a project for multi-stage carving using a blowup of a project students are about to start working on.
Norm explains how to finish off a multi-stage shading
project. Each student receives individual coaching and critiques.
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