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I had a two day class with Michael Barley last week & thought I would share a few photos. Here's some of the girls in the class swarming around his "for sale" beads. |
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Michael Barley's Class ~ June 2008 |
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I had a two day class with Michael Barley last week & thought I would share a few photos. Here's some of the girls in the class swarming around his "for sale" beads. |
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A closer view of his beads to give you a sense of the size of them. Much bigger then I make & absolutely gorgeous! |
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And here's Barley making a stringer for a bead. I took several pictures of him working but only a couple turned out because I had my camera on "night time" mode - whoops. |
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Barley is such a super nice man, very easy going & an excellent teacher. He walked around to check on each & every one of us every time we made a bead. I've never had an instructor pay so much attention to me while I was working. I would definitely recommend a class with him. |
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These bad boys are what I produced from the class, almost all of them are dogs, but there's a lot of information in each one. Each one shows a different technique, which I hope to be able to incorporate within some of my own beads. My very favorite technique is making clear windows like the center bead here. I also posted a "window" bead on the front page that Michael made so you get a better idea about it. Very cool, now if I can figure out how to make them wee but still keep the depth, these beads are huge! |
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These are two of Michael's beads. The one on the left is the one I purchased from his collection that he brought up & the one on the right is a demo bead he made in class. He raffled off all his demo beads so we would each get one, which is another reason why Michael rocks.
That's all the photos I have to share, it was rather fast paced & though we stayed late each night, there wasn't a lot of time for taking pictures, a sign of a good class indeed.
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