Hayley Tsang Class

Explore the Magic of Silver Glass
A Workshop with Hayley Tsang

The Smoky Mountain Firecrackers are proud to welcome Hayley Tsang to teach this workshop for our members on November 7-8, 2009.

Explore the Magic of Silver Glass

This two-day workshop will focus on the many facets of working with both striking and reducing silver glass. Once the basic techniques have been demonstrated and practiced, Hayley will show different ways of incorporating silver glass in your beadmaking. Some of the techniques may include encasing, stringer decoration, shards and twisties application, and gravity swirls. In addition to how to achieve the best results with this fun and mysterious glass, special emphasis will be placed on bead design and perfect bead shaping. With the exception of the initial instruction on how to strike and reduce spacer beads, and how to retain the effects under clear encasement, you will be making large bicone/tubular shaped beads.

About the Instructor, Hayley Tsang

Hayley has a fine arts background – a BFA from University of Hawaii and MFA from Yale University – and has had her own graphic design studio for 20 years in San Francisco. Her art and crafts background enabled her to explore many mediums - from drawing, painting and sculpture in her younger years, photography and ceramics later, then woodworking, jewelry, and metal clay more recently (which she still does.) It was less than three years ago that she discovered the magic of glass. Her passion is silver glass. Her obsession is perfectly shaped and executed forms. Her work has been published in Bead Review 3, The Flow and her self-published tutorial, Swirl, and four Silver Color e-Books. For more information, please visit her website at www.envisionsf.com.

A complete list of materials and tools you need to bring will be posted prior to the workshop. You will receive an email of that list as well.