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When you are aware of your process, you can change it!
Each artist has their own path to travel.
Each artist has their own path to travel.
Each work of art is the result of a different path.
Create a Path to Your Artistic Vision
"Find Your Way" Coaching Program
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Use enamel to explore your creative process in Ricky's new Spring coaching class. Students will choose a topic, use a sketchbook (don't worry, you don't need to be able to draw!) to create a new visual and enamel vocabulary, and work towards a final project.
Students will learn to combine research, ideas, and images, document their process, and create a new visual and enamel language.
Emphasis will be on managing the challenging process of "letting go" and surrendering to the changes that an image/idea takes as the artist moves from initial idea to final artwork.
What's holding you back from making the enamel art of your dreams?
You've taken classes and have basic skills.
You've got the tools and materials.
Every now and then you make something that you like.
But SOMETHING is missing and you just need a little help.
I once felt like this too.
Here is how I made a change...
- I changed my goals: from "make something that I like" to "explore what is possible"
- I changed my questions: from "How can I make it" to "What do I want to make and why do I care?"
- I studied my own creative process: If I cannot see something, I cannot change it
- I created small tutorials to help myself learn what I needed to make the changes that I wanted
- I made a COMMITTMENT to make a change
Our Roadmap to make an artistic change includes...
"I used to struggle to make artwork that was unique, meaningful, and personal."
When I began to let go of "what I think that I should make" and surrendered to combining my skills with new ideas and images, I discovered a new way to create with enamel. I planned less and released my need for technical perfection.
My questions changed as I played and experimented. I let images and ideas combine to create dialogues with new visual and enamel vocabulary. And most importantly, the new language began to reflect how I connected with the images and dialogue. I began to make enamel artwork that came from my heart!
- You probably have "enough" technique! What can you do with it?
- The "Find Your Way" class helps you blaze your own trail as you discover and explore YOUR creative process using both mixed-media and enamel.
- As a member of a committed group and with Ricky's coaching, you work through different exercises to build a new visual and enamel language.
Explore and Record your creative process using a sketchbook/journal for your project
Create a safe place to play with images, ideas, and story.
- Collect images, questions, and ideas In the beginning you are simply finding possible starting points
- Change and Combine Play as you let your ideas and images begin a dialogue. You don't need to control it. Just begin to listen!
- Let ideas flow freely from one to another Discover new relationships that you may have never considered. Translate visual images into enamel images. Have fun and let go of the fear of making mistakes.
"Sketchbooks make for great history books of your own life"- Prashant Mirando in "Beggining"
This is for YOU if you...
-Love to think for yourself
-Can embrace uncertain answers
-Want to make something that comes from your heart
-Enjoy the process of developing skills
-Are always curious and want to discover more questions
This is NOT for you if you...
-Want to be told what to do
-Need to know the "right way"
-Need to always make something that you like
-Want the shortcuts so you can succeed now
-Want the right answers to your questions
FAQ
Some Experience Required!
This is not a class for beginners. Students should be able to...
1. Make a fine silver or copper "blank"
2. Bend and apply cloisonne´wires
3. Apply and fire silver or gold foil
4. Paint and apply transparent enamel color layers
5. Add flux layers and grind/polish to your taste
6. Predict what most of your colors will look like when they are fired.
Some Experience Required!
This is not a class for beginners. Students should be able to...
1. Make a fine silver or copper "blank"
2. Bend and apply cloisonne´wires
3. Apply and fire silver or gold foil
4. Paint and apply transparent enamel color layers
5. Add flux layers and grind/polish to your taste
6. Predict what most of your colors will look like when they are fired.