Freeform Bezel Settings: Using A Silhouette CAMEO® cutting machine with Wanaree Tanner

This is a two day course suitable for ambitious beginner to advanced level metal clay artists.

Using A Silhouette Cameo cutting machine to create unique bezel wires and beautiful stone setting!!

This new exciting course covers everything you need to know to get the most out of your Silhouette Cameo cutting machine! Also covers how to set up your clay for cutting, design, stone settings, punching, creating “floating” bezel wire setting and so much more!! Taught in COPPRclay so you can practice your skills in this forgiving medium, Wanaree will also explain how to execute this technique in PMC Paper and Fastfire BRONZclay.

What is the Silhouette CAMEO®?

The Silhouette CAMEO® is an electronic, programable cutting tool. Similar to a home printer, it plugs into your PC or Mac® with a simple USB cable. However, instead of printing, the CAMEO uses a small blade to cut your designs, out of paper, fabric, vinyl, cardstock, and now in metal clay too.

The CAMEO cuts designs created in the Silhouette Studio® software. This software is free and offers a wide variety of tools and functions to help create custom projects quickly and easily.

Wanaree has begun designing a series of patterns that you can purchase and download for use in your own studio. She'll be listing her stencils, bezels, accents, as well as many more MC SILies (Metal Clay Silhouette) designs!

Join the Facebook Group specifically designed to support metal clay artists using the Silhouette CAMEO® here

Visit Wanaree's Metal Clay Design Shop here

View a video of one of Wanaree's creations which uses the Silhouette CAMEO®

 

 

The skills you'll learn on this course include -

• firing, forming, and working in COPPRclay
• compensating for shrinkage
• crash course on finding the right firing schedule for your kiln
• making a place holder form
• creating COPPRclay paper type
• with design in mind: simple ways to start designing unique bezel wire
• with design in mind: custom made texture plates and stencils using Scratchfoam
• secrets of the floating bezel setting
• extruding your own accents and components
• how to set your stone without over stressing your delicate bezel wires
• granulation accents and making your own dry clay punches
• setting up your Cameo Silhouette, importing your designs, how to calibrate your machine

 

 

Wanaree Tanner

Wanaree Tanner burst onto the metal clay scene in 2011, seemingly from nowhere. In a few months, she bagged a top award and gained accolades from a wide range of established metal clay artists.

Wanaree is an award winning, primarily self-taught, full time artist, with a love for illustration and a fascination with world mythologies. She started working in metal clay in 2008 and quickly became obsessed with turning two dimensional drawings into three dimensional forms. When copper clay hit the open market, she bought her first pack and never looked back. After two years of experimenting and dreaming, she feels she’s finally able to bring the forms lurking in her mind into reality. 

She travels to art shows around the country, has written articles for Art Jewelry, Metal Clay Today, Metal Clay Artist Magazine and is the video editor for MCAM’s resource library.

She has had work published in the PMC Guild Annual 2011, the New Directions book and the Art and Design of Metal Clay Jewelry 2012 Calendar. She also writes a brilliant blog in which she shares her techniques and shows what she's working on.

See Wanaree's tutor profile and a video of her teaching here.

Visit Wanaree's website here.