Back in December or January I received the workshop schedule from The Craft Guild of Dallas. I have wanted to take a week long workshop there since I (we) moved to Texas, eight years ago and this time I found one to take.
In July Master Chaser and Teacher Fabrizio Acquafresca will be teaching an advanced class and YES!!! I signed up for it.
Recently I wrote to him to ask questions about a project I have wanted to do for a while. It is inspired by Liza Nechamkin Glasser's Triscuit Cracker Dish. My project will be a series of plates or platters called See Food - and each one will have a type of Sea food - Shrimp, Lobster, Flounder, Clams, etc... I don't know how many I will end up doing but the ideas are endless. Back to the email I sent to Fabrizio; he said it was a good idea that I should bring a copper plate that is 20 ga. thick along with a pitch board, my tools and hammers.
I took an entire day to plan the project using Adobe Illustrator. I am using vectors because I can then scale the design to any size but I started with drawing a 12" circle with a 9" circle inside that; this is the plate with the inner circle the flat center portion and the 1.5" outer area as the border of the plate; this is the first layer. The second later is a whole lobster in it's shell and it covers the plate from rim to rim. The third layer is parsley and lemon wedges. I have printed it out over 4 pages and taped them together. Now I have to trace it so I can transfer it to the plate and THEN I will be ready for the workshop
In July Master Chaser and Teacher Fabrizio Acquafresca will be teaching an advanced class and YES!!! I signed up for it.
Recently I wrote to him to ask questions about a project I have wanted to do for a while. It is inspired by Liza Nechamkin Glasser's Triscuit Cracker Dish. My project will be a series of plates or platters called See Food - and each one will have a type of Sea food - Shrimp, Lobster, Flounder, Clams, etc... I don't know how many I will end up doing but the ideas are endless. Back to the email I sent to Fabrizio; he said it was a good idea that I should bring a copper plate that is 20 ga. thick along with a pitch board, my tools and hammers.
I took an entire day to plan the project using Adobe Illustrator. I am using vectors because I can then scale the design to any size but I started with drawing a 12" circle with a 9" circle inside that; this is the plate with the inner circle the flat center portion and the 1.5" outer area as the border of the plate; this is the first layer. The second later is a whole lobster in it's shell and it covers the plate from rim to rim. The third layer is parsley and lemon wedges. I have printed it out over 4 pages and taped them together. Now I have to trace it so I can transfer it to the plate and THEN I will be ready for the workshop
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