About the Beat Life into your Forging courses
The courses are for advanced blacksmiths and will give you opportunities to improve your forging abilities. Each 2 session course will give you a deep dive into a certain topic. During each lesson, helpful concepts to bring your forging to life will be introduced. You will have time to practice on your own, and share your progress with others. At the end of each course, we will discuss the questions which arose during your practice to give you the most benefit.
Content of the Beat Life into your Forging 2 session courses
These lessons will be aboutforging animal heads.
You will learn about forging from different angles and hunt for the right outline and detail in your ironwork. Another big subject will be tooling for figures and how the vice can support your work in the most constructive way.
In these courses you will learn how to forge human shapes from solid stock. We take a deeper look into the concept of negative space as well.
In these courses we will work with flying creatures like birds and dragons. You will learn a new approach to which starting material will support your desired outcome best.
Format of the courses
The courses are planned in a way to give the participants maximum freedom to learn in their pace. On the other hand, we want to provide enough guidance to enable good success.
During registrations you get handout material for the online course and links to the two Zoom sessions
On two tuesday we will have a Zoom-Meeting. In the first meeting we will share the concepts and methods how to create the courses forgework. In the second meeting we will be discussing the results and progress of participants. During the the two weeks in between participants have time to try out what they learned.
What you get
- two weeks filled with challenges and opportunities to bring your blacksmithing to the next level
- Access to handouts about techniques, concepts and tooling exclusively created for these courses