Monographic: Porcelain Jewellery with Luca Tripaldi

This 3 days workshop is aimed to people who have already experience in porcelain, interested to discover new materials and techniques in order to experiment new possibilities to work with porcelain for jewelry.

Program:

You will learn how to easily make a silicone mold from any shape and material in order to get reply in porcelain. This method is much faster of the slip casting in a plaster molds because you don’t have to care of the undercuts and you don’t have to wait for porcelain drying to take out the pieces.

You’ll assemble the porcelain elements got with this technique into a necklace, using a very particular way to connect each piece and to create the clasp; using a special thread and some tiny glass beads.

We’ll teach you how to work with Keraflex: it’s a porcelain paper clay sold in sheets, it has the consistency, thickness and flexibility of a cardboard. The Keraflex can be cut and folded at your desire. The shapes, the lightness and the very thin thicknesses you can reach with it are not possible with the regular porcelains.

We’ll also show you how to use the “hot pot” to make a bisque and a gold luster firings. The Hot Pot is a box made of refractory material which can be used in a regular microwave. That’s an incredible option when a ceramic kiln is not available or if you need a quick firing and don’t have enough pieces to load a full kiln.

This course will be divided into 3 stages.

Friday:

1- Working on silicone molds to create porcelain elements for your necklace, rings and brooches, using regular soft porcelain (Limoges porcelain).

2- Bisque firing of pieces during the evening

Saturday:

1- Making the elements with the paper clay porcelain Keraflex.

2- Sanding and glazing the bisque fired pieces.

3- Firing at high temperature of all the pieces made (bisque and green ware) during the evening

Sunday:

1- Using of the gold luster.

2- Demonstration how to do a bisque firing and a gold luster firing with the Hot Pot in the microwave.

3- Assembling of a necklace and making of the metal part of a brooch using brass.

Dates:  Friday , Saturday  and Sunday  from 10am to 5pm, new dates to be confirmed

STUDENTS SHALL BRING:

• 1 round nose pliers
• 1 pair of small scissors

THIS COURSE INCLUDES:

• Porcelain, keraflex, luster, silicone
• tools, firings, glazes

This course will take place with a minimum of 8 and maximum of 10 students. If you have signed up and paid and the course doesn’t take place, we’ll refund you the total amount paid. ElTornBarcelona cannot be responsible for procurement or losses incurred on travel arrangements. **Please take this into consideration when booking your flights and accommodation.

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