103) Clay Jewellery (10 – 15 years old) at IAID

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About this class

Welcome to the wonderful world of clay. Bring your creativity to the fore. Experiment with shapes and colours.

Create shapes, embellish using simple tools, mix colours to make exciting shades, paint, attach findings and string to bring the jewellery to life. 

Note: This class takes place at IAID (Academy for Dance, Music and Arts) – Intersection D-Ring Road / Rawdat al Khail Street.

For directions, please visit http://www.iaid.qa

Class Outline
  1. Introduction to clay jewellery, tools and safe work practices. Making freehand shapes.
  2. Familiarisation with the banding wheel. Making beads for the first jewellery set.
  3. Firing the beads and learning different stringing techniques.
  4. Painting the fired beads and making the ear-wear.
  5. Learning different beeding techniques.
  6. Learning to make tassel chords.
  7. Making double-cone beads for bracelets.
  8. Stringing and assembling the bracelet. varnishing and finishing

Materials needed

Please note: VCUQatar reserves the right to cancel classes for which not enough participants are registered. Already paid fees will be refunded.

Please do not purchase materials until VCUQatar has sent final course confirmation.

Items to buy for this class

Participants are required to buy their own materials beforehand and bring them to every class

  • Acrylic paints
  • Brush (synthetic hair, flat, size 0)
  • Brush (synthetic hair, flat, size 1)
  • Palettes 

Clay will be supplied free of cost by the instructor during the class.

On occasions, there may be some more materials to be bought and brought in if and when advised by the instructor.

Where to buy your materials

Most of the materials are available from any art supply shop, for example:
  • Cass Art (Fire station): Community Classes students get a 15% discount upon presenting the registration ticket
  • Jarir Bookstore: on Rayyan Road or Salwa Road
  • Color Note: on Al Nasser Street
  • Ibn Al Qayyim: at Markhiya Roundabout
  • Al Rawnaq

Schedule

Start: Sat, 21 Oct, 2017
End: Sat, 9 Dec, 2017
Lessons: 8
Days: Saturdays
Time: 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Location: IAID (Academy for Dance, Music and Arts) at Intersection D-Ring Road / Rawdat al Khail Street
Cost: QAR 850

Instructors

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Sangeeta Deepu

Sangeeta Deepu is a multi-faceted handicrafts professional with mastery in ceramics and leather works.

She is passionate about sharing her rewarding experience and is a dedicated teacher. Sangeeta has perfected her own unique method for making ceramic bracelets. She also make her own mosaics for decorative artwork for any space.

Sangeeta has been featured in the Gulf Times Community Sunday Conversation titled Cath’art’ic,  in the cover story Discovery via Creativity in the Qatar Tribune Supplement Chillout. Also in the Society magazine of the Gulf Times.

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