Sunday, September 21, 2008

current skills.


Metal

-silver soldering

-piercing sheet and formed sheet with jeweler’s saw

-riveting – tube and wire

-dapping

-chain making

-tumbling

-filing, sanding, finishing

-hydraulic die forming

-hinge making

-stone setting – bezel, tube, prong

-welding – steel and copper

-hammering – forming and texturing

-tube making

-hollow sheet fabrication

-wax working – hard, soft, and sheet wax

-investing

-casting – bronze

-etching – ferric chloride

-electroforming – copper

-patinas – heat, liver of sulfur, and prismacolor colored pencils

Glass

-cutting and grinding

-copper foiling

-lead soldering

-tinning

-glass bead making

Enameling

-sifted opaque and transparent

-liquid opaque and transparent

-stenciling and sgraffito

-graphite pencil

-cloisonné

-baisse taille

-micron pen as binder

-kiln and torch fired

Fibers

-crocheting

-knitting

-basket weaving

-coiling

-embroidery

-felt making

-dying wool

-hand sewing

-beginner machine sewing

Painting and Drawing

-oil and acrylic

-charcoal, pencil, pen

-rendering with prismacolor pencils and markers

Wood

-hand carving

-rotary tool carving

-filing, sanding, finishing

Printmaking

-gocco on paper and fabric

-screen printing with acrylic ink onto paper

Mold making

-plaster molds

-2 part rubber molds

Alternative materials

-casting concrete, paper, coffee, make-up, chapstick, tobacco

CAD

-Rhino modeling and rendering

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