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Whether you are just learning about glass etching or adding to your techniques,
this is one of the two classes you should start with (the other is the 4 day
Professional Glass Etching Seminar). Start here if you are most interested in
etching gift items, awards, corporate gifts, signs and any other product with
a great deal of detail. Where the Pro class emphasizes the etching techniques,
this seminar shows you etching basics, plus complete instruction in how to create
your etched images easily, using a dramatic photo resist technique that avoids
having to hand cut resist. Your best and fastest way to learn all about etching
is to take both classes, and several times a year, we schedule them together.
Etch a corporate
logo on an elegant crystal award or a stunning crystal bowl. Etch
your signature on a piece of glass, or a sketch, or your kids' drawings,
or almost any black and white design!. Easily, quickly, with no
tedious tracing or hand cutting - no matter how complex the design.
Sound incredible? Well, it is! Photo resist etching is a great new
technology that has only been around for a few years, and is not
well known at all.
Photo
resist is an amazing new technique for creating an etching stencil
to be applied to a piece of glass and etched.
In the past,
a glass etching stencil was created by enlarging the design, tracing
every line by hand onto a resilient resist material on the glass,
then hand cutting every line with a stencil knife. After cutting,
you still had to peel out all the elements of resist where you wanted
the etching to appear. This was quite tedious and time consuming,
especially with complex designs and designs with tiny detail. It
was even more tedious if you had to do a complex design two or three
times or 50 times - or 500!
Now, with photo
resist, everything has changed. Etching fine detail is now not only
fun, but is profitable, too. Etch these complex designs a dozen
times, or a hundred, or a thousand - by using photo resist!
But wait - did you know that there are 4 distinctly different
types of photo resist? Or that each one has its own advantages?
Not to worry, because we cover each one of these different types
of resist thoroughly, including the new RapidMask.
Don't
miss this valuable class! Enrollment is limited to a maximum of
10 students and the seminar is only taught at our school/studio
in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
This intensive
3 day seminar includes lots of hands-on practice, so you really
learn the techniques!
in this class, you create from 20 - 40 individual photo resists
and complete at least 10 projects, including etching on glasware,
thick glass slabs, tile, stone, ceramic items and more. You not
only learn surface etching techniques, but also how to use photo
resist to carve and shade glass in multiple stages.
Two
instructors teach this class and there are always 3 - 4 equipment
setups available to students, so you can get the maximum ******
of projects finished with a minimum amount of time spent waiting
to etch!
Learn similar
glass etching techniques
to those taught in our Professional Seminar, but geared strictly
to photo resist. Learn how to personalize beautiful glass and crystal
pieces for corporate or individual gifts. Learn how to create your
own photo resists, use pre-imaged resists, or combine with other
resist techniques. Computer hardware and software (commonly available
programs) useful for creating originals will be discussed and demonstrated,
as will the topic of how to print out your designs for photo resist.
Classes
are held 4 times a year, usually back-to-back with our 4 day Professional
Seminar. Come for one or both seminars and stay in our outstanding
accomodations at Aliento. See the schedule page for current classes!
One last note!
As good as photo resist is, and as much of a revolution
it is producing in glass etching, it will not do everything.
It has not and probably will never replace the older technique of
hand-cutting when you want to do sophisticated multi-stage carving
and shading.
It is not used on large etchings very often (even surface etchings)
because it is fairly expensive (compared to hand-cut resist). This
is especially true if you only want one etching of the design instead
of several. We find that using photo resist compliments the existing
techniques and adds a world of new products and applications for
etching. That is why we continue to teach both the Professional
and the Photo Resist seminars!
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An example
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