Jewellery making: colour techniques

City Lit

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    London

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This course is for jewellers wanting to develop ideas and experiment with techniques for integrating colour into their practice. Discover designing with colour, contextualise with artists and jewellers innovating with colour, explore different materials and find your own working methods with a series of practical workshops taught by specialist tutors in Enamelling, and Anodising Aluminium. Perfect for jewellers looking to take their work in a new direction, respond to current trends, extend their material knowledge or for an exciting creative and experimental project.

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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

- Develop your own colour palette, designs and working method for integrating colour into your practice
- Have a good understanding of the creative and technical possibilities of enamel in your own jewellery designs
- Experiment with colour through sample making
- Recognise the possibilities and limitations of both enamelling, and colouring anodised Aluminium.
- Use different dyeing and printing methods for Anodised Aluminium.
- Create a colourfast surface.
- Select appropriate cold-joining techniques when using Enamelling and Aluminium.
- Source materials and equipment.
- Enable you to confidently apply what you have learned to your own practice, and work independently with the materials and processes.

Course Materials will be provided. Any suggested reading or preparation will be communicated from the tutor prior to the course.

At City Lit we encourage a supportive, challenging and creative environment to exchange ideas, experiences and knowledge between experts and peers. The course will be taught through demonstrations, handouts, practical activities, group discussion and individual tutor support.

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Course programme

03.03.18 Gesine Garz: Enamelling
- Introduction to Vitreous Enamelling
- Looking at artists and jewellers, traditional and contemporary, using enamel in their work.
- Creative use of enamels in jewellery
- The possibilities and limitations of enamel in more complex jewellery designs
- Safe use of materials and equipment
- Metal preparation
- Practical: Decorative dry-sifting techniques (stencilling, sgraffito)


10.03.18 Gesine Garz: Enamelling
- Practical session: More dry-enamel techniques (graphite drawing, riso screen)
- Creative use of decals in enamelling
- Creating a set of samples, which will allow students to find and recreate their favourite colours and techniques

17.03.18 Liane Wolf: colouring Anodised Aluminium
- Exploring a range of colour mediums for Anodised Aluminium, including water dyes,permanent inks and alcohol inks.
- Apply a variety of colouring processes and applications, to develop a series of samples.
- The sealing process to create a colourfast surface.


24.03.18 Liane Wolf: colouring anodised aluminium.
- Working with specialist inks and mono-printing techniques.
- Combining inks and dyes to create variation in tone, contrast, patterns and design.
- Discuss the possibilities and limitations of making and working with aluminium.
- Finishing techniques such as sanding, filing and polishing Aluminium.

Additional information

City Lit offer a wide range of short and year-long courses in Jewellery design and making, from beginners to advanced, and for professional development. These courses, from 17-18 Main Programme might complement what you learned or your outcomes from this course: VV606 Introduction to Leather Jewellery VV434 Colour, Print, Dye on Metal VV826 Jewellery Making all levels: Forcus on Surfaces. General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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