Studio Course - Introduction to Fashion Jewellery
There are a maximum of 4 students per workshop. Students will work in a fabulous workshop space with everything at their fingertips and gas lift chairs for comfort.
Dates: TBA
Where: Killarney Vale on the Central Coast
Time: 9 am-4.30 pm
Skill Level: All - beginners to advanced
This is a great way to start your creative journey!
There are a maximum of 4 students per workshop. Students will work in a fabulous workshop space with everything at their fingertips and gas lift chairs for comfort.
Dates: TBA
Where: Killarney Vale on the Central Coast
Time: 9 am-4.30 pm
Skill Level: All - beginners to advanced
This is a great way to start your creative journey!
There are a maximum of 4 students per workshop. Students will work in a fabulous workshop space with everything at their fingertips and gas lift chairs for comfort.
Dates: TBA
Where: Killarney Vale on the Central Coast
Time: 9 am-4.30 pm
Skill Level: All - beginners to advanced
This is a great way to start your creative journey!
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Carolyne Brennan Multi Award winning Artist & Designer
From the catwalks to creating a global jewellery school. Carolyne is an expert when it comes to creating iconic jewellery to help you be the talking point of any event or dinner you go to.
Accessories are an untapped resource when it comes to dressing yourself and reinventing an outfit.
Go on a creative discovery with Carolyne and create your own stand-out pieces.
Make timeless jewellery out of your pieces sitting in your cupboard as they cry to be seen. Don’t fall for cheap imitations that barely last a season.
My courses and workshops have been a launching pad for many success stories. it gives me such a thrill to see students soar to get heights. and now I can reach more students with my online courses.
See you on the inside and get ready to learn some great techniques AND make some fabulous Jewellery!
REMEMBER, YOU CAN DO IT!!
I am here to help you! Carolyne xx
T’S INCLUDED in your workshop
Use of studio tools (please feel free to bring your own tools)
Print out PDF student sheets
There will be extra products & tools for students to purchase
The studio is fully equipped with floor-to-ceiling beads and findings
TECHNIQUES COVERED
How to use safe tool practices.
Tools and their uses
How to make and join eye pins like a professional
Correct use of jump rings, & how to open & close them with ease.
How to make jump-rings.
How to distinguish a good product from an inferior product.
Uses for an inferior product.
Techniques to assist you with colour choices.
The golden rules for Design principles.
Placement of materials & ratio of materials size.
Techniques to assist you with Colour mixing and matching.
Seed beads and their use in jewellery making and designing.
Proportions & their principles and understanding how to use it in your work.
How to develop your eye......like why things work and don't.
How to design and make beaten metal coils and shapes and add them to your work for a decorative finish.
Working with artistic wire & how to harden the wire.
I have incorporated techniques from my silversmithing background into this workshop that will give you an edge in jewellery design…such as beating metal shapes and coils.
WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING:
Lunch - Notebook & pencil & or pen
your eagerness to learn all these fabulous new techniques
If you prefer to use your own tools, please bring them along
Colour choices are available for this workshop; you will have plenty to choose from.
Course Details
WHAT YOU WILL MAKE IN THESE WORKSHOPS
* you are going to have home some fabulous earrings and a necklace, but more importantly, you are going to learn
jewellery-making techniques.
* QUALITY over QUANTITY is my mantra!
Hot Dot Designs School of Fashion Jewellery awards students Certificates on Completion of all workshops
Wine & Cheese (or tea & coffee) will be served after this workshop for those who would like to relax before heading home
