First Days of Surface Embellishment Class

Our first day of Metals Week at Idyllwild Arts Center began with coffee and lots of breakfast. Breakfasts are especially welcome here and give new meaning to the word "break-fast".  After breakfast, Metals Week officially began with orientation in front of the library and an introduction of the instructors.

 Charity Hall, Sandra Noble-Goss, Pauline Warg, Joanna Gollberg,  Fred Zweig, and Harold O'Connor

                

Reticulated Silver

 On the first day Harold O'Connor demonstrated creating design on reticulated silver with a torch.

The picture above is one of Harold O'Connor's demonstration pieces. He made it look very easy. Some of the examples he created were especially awesome. For some reason, when I tried it on the 26 gauge reticulated silver it didn't work as well for me. I don't have the torch control to determine the resulting design. But I am here to learn.

Harold O'Connor's Three Dimensional Formed Silver

This piece is amazing and I have spent three days trying to produce anything remotely similar.
If I finish my piece, I'll post it here and then celebrate. Harold makes it look so easy.

I have more pictures. Many stories and lots to tell you but tonight, I'm going to sleep so I can work on finishing my Three Dimensional Form tomorrow.