Comments on: Distilling techniques & ideas http://libzoid.net/blog/2007/04/11/distilling-techniques-ideas/ Thoughts about creativity, polymer clay, beading and life Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:47:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Libby http://libzoid.net/blog/2007/04/11/distilling-techniques-ideas/#comment-24 Libby Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:28:24 +0000 http://libzoid.net/blog/?p=16#comment-24 Thanks Jeanne! The blog is a fun outlet for me. As for workshops, I tend to teach technique driven workshops partly because I have a harder time focusing on a specific finished project. There are always so many other directions to explore and I like to talk about them all. That Black & White Bead Swap was one of my favorites. I have one of your adorable "Beoples" bead from that swap. Thanks Jeanne! The blog is a fun outlet for me. As for workshops, I tend to teach technique driven workshops partly because I have a harder time focusing on a specific finished project. There are always so many other directions to explore and I like to talk about them all.

That Black & White Bead Swap was one of my favorites. I have one of your adorable “Beoples” bead from that swap.

]]> By: Jeanne Rhea http://libzoid.net/blog/2007/04/11/distilling-techniques-ideas/#comment-23 Jeanne Rhea Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:17:02 +0000 http://libzoid.net/blog/?p=16#comment-23 I have always admired your work and the way you work. (One of my favorite beads is your black beads with some little white squiggles that I got in a swap years ago.) This post is especially a good one. I love workshops as well, but prefer technique based workshops as I can always find a way to use a technique and if no specific piece of jewelry or object for example are made, then it is much easier to do something uniquely mine with what I have learned. I can hardly wait to get out of a workshop so I can see how i can do something totally different. Every workshop that I have ever taken, I have come away with a better or easier way to do something that was not taught. I prefer to teach technique based classes. I can then tell the students to use the techniques in any way they wish. It is nice when a student sees a different way of doing the same thing---especially when it is even easier or quicker. Thanks for a good post and I enjoy your blog a lot. I have always admired your work and the way you work. (One of my favorite beads is your black beads with some little white squiggles that I got in a swap years ago.)

This post is especially a good one. I love workshops as well, but prefer technique based workshops as I can always find a way to use a technique and if no specific piece of jewelry or object for example are made, then it is much easier to do something uniquely mine with what I have learned. I can hardly wait to get out of a workshop so I can see how i can do something totally different. Every workshop that I have ever taken, I have come away with a better or easier way to do something that was not taught.

I prefer to teach technique based classes. I can then tell the students to use the techniques in any way they wish. It is nice when a student sees a different way of doing the same thing—especially when it is even easier or quicker.

Thanks for a good post and I enjoy your blog a lot.

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