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New On-demand Class for beginner/intermediate beadmakers:
Passing The Flame in action, part 1
The price is $ 125, no matter when you sign up.
... if you are interested in what will be covered, here is a list of videos as well as duration of each video
Guide 1. introduction
Guide 2. How to dip mandrels (10:14)
Guide 3. How to hold the mandrel (5:00 + 1:45)
Guide 4. Meet your best friend, the flame (4:45)
Guide 5. Making round beads
1. the donut method (5:38)
1a. focus on the footprint (3:41)
2a. the winding method (7:00)
2b. making a big bead with the winding method (3:23)
3. the fast and furious method (5:00)
4. fixing a bad bead (5:19)
Guide 6. Shaping beads
1. Popular shaping tools (3:25)
2. marvering (1:35)
3. The final touch: flame polishing (2:54)
4. Starting out easy: tabs (7:08)
5. cubes (8:27)
6. barrels (5:23)
7. cones (9:33)
8a. bicones (8:11)
8b. bicones step-pyramid technique (7:18)
9. a short introduction into using presses: lentils (5:00)
Guide 7. using specialty tools to shape beads
1. intro: why it makes sense to use different shaping tools (2:56)
2. Looking at a variety of different tools (3:33)
3. using a graphite bead mold to make round beads (6:59)
4. using brass shapers to help with round beads (4:11)
5. shaping slender bicones with a mega marver (7:08)
6. making thicker bicones with an olive shaper (7:46)
Guide 8: Decorating shaped beads
1. decorating flat beads (tabs) (7:28)
2. decorating cubes (11:05)
3. decorating barrels (4:11)
4a. decorating bicones, melted in (13:04)
4b. decorating bicones, melted in and raised (8:04)
5. decorating lentils (6:50)
6. BONUS: getting fancy with frog
Guide 9: What about the pucker?
1. Meet Detective Pucker: discussion and samples (8:09)
2. how to create puckers - or not (23:37)
Guide 10: Dots
1. how to apply dots to a bead (12:56)
2. where to apply dots: Center – Shoulder (3:40)
3. Try it out:Goosebump bead (12:28)
4a. spacing introduction (1:59)
4b. 3 dots (2:46)
4c. 4 dots (3:11)
4d. 5 dots (3:18)
5. stacked dots – layered dots (9:19)
6. stacked dots in “star design” (11:19)
7. Buffer dots
8. Twisted dots
Poked dots
9a. poking tools (1:43)
9b. center poked (10:06)
9c. inbetween poked (9:28)
9d. the mirror effect (4:00)
The distortion effect
10a. first degree example 1 (5:43)
10b. first degree example 2 (7:06)
10c. second degree example 1 (5:03)
10d. second degree example 2 (5:35)
11. Just to mention: masking dots (3:47)
12. BONUS: dot freezing (17:01)
Guide 11: Step-by-step beads
1. The Rainbow bead (6:53)
2a. Triangle bead - single layer (8:35)
2b. Triangle bead -multiple layer (15:36)
3. Cosmic Swirl (17:32)
4. BONUS: Andrea Guarino’s Salmon Egg Bead
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Guide 12: Stringers
intro and tools (3:00)
Guide 13: Pulling/making a variety of stringers
1a. fine stringers –close up (2:17)
1b. fine stringers- wide angle (1:15)
2a. regular stringers – close up (8:47)
2b. regular stringers – wide angle (5:09)
3. What is a Maria? (6:20)
4a. thick stringers – close up (4:58)
4b. thick stringers – wide angle (6:17)
4c. thick stringers, "center method" (4:10)
5. the case of intense black (6:17)
6. making thick encased stringer (rose cane) (8:31)
7a. making thin encased stringer (5:11)
7b. making thin encased stringer with larger rod (7:06)
8. Filigrana stringer (3:22)
Applying stringer
Important intro into stringer application: The camel and the horse – why the shape of the bead matters (2:47)
1. something for warming up: using superfine stringer (6:26)
2a. sideways (horizontal) stringers melted in (18:01)
2b. sideways (horizontal) stringers raised (15:25)
3. zigzag lines (8:46)
4a. coiling stringer into itslef: plaid design (11:00)
4b. coiling stringer into itself: stringer as “rim” (6:11)
5a. coiling stringers, disaster strinkes (6:48)
5b. coiling stringers, “dry run (6:40)
5c. coiling stringers, final (semi successful) attempt (5:25)
6. BONUS: raking through stringer lines (12:15)
Swirls
7a. intro and beginning exercise (3:19)
7b. one directional swirls, "closed swirl" (9:21)
7c. one directional swirls, "open swirl" (10:53)
8a. two directional swirls, first attempt (blooper) (11:23)
8b. third attempt (not a typo) (8:36)
9. The sweet spot
10. If nothing else works
- the sweet spot (4:55)
- if nothing else works (4:40)
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- designing with stringers - an outlook (2:54)
Confession of a burnvictim (2:28)
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