Riverpoet Design

8 From 1: Intensive Flower Cane Workshop

How would you like to learn to make 8 different flower canes from ONE skinner blend? In this intensive caning workshop you’ll learn just that. You’ll make realistic-looking rose and daisy canes, tiny accent flowers, flowers with spots, variegation stripes, “folded petals” and several other designs. This class teaches the fundamentals of caning and skinner blend manipulation. Learn to tint or “shift” the color of your blends, choose the best translucent clay for “caulking” the canes, fast and easy cane reduction with very little waste, and cutting thin slices. At the end of class, students can swap pieces of their canes so they can leave with a whole bouquet of flowers. (Note: we can take some time in this class to arrange the cane slices into tiles or beads, but the class is mainly focused on making the canes, rather than using them.)

Cost: $125 per student for 2 days instruction, plus $5 materials fee

Floral Tile Jewelry Construction and Design Workshop

On the first day of this class, we will make a rose or daisy cane (students’ choice), leaf cane and backgrounds for our tiles. The caning portion will cover building, reducing, and slicing the cane, as well as skinner blend manipulation. On the second day, we will use our new canes to design and assemble gorgeous tile jewelry to make bracelets, pins, earrings, pendants and more. In the process, you’ll learn to make your own sizing templates to make uniform tile beads that are the right width for any size bracelet. You’ll learn finishing techniques, texturing, drilling. (Note: You should be able to finish a pendant and/or set of earrings, or at least 3 tiles for a tile bracelet. All steps to make the tile bracelets will be covered, however time constraints may not make it possible to finish one.)

Cost: $125 per student for 2 days instruction, plus $10 materials fee