Based on her popular on-line tutorial, Vickie Hallmark presents an authoritative manual for copper electroforming onto glass beads. Topics covered include theory, equipment, design, and operation, as well as troubleshooting and sources. Illustrated with dozens of one-of-a-kind electroformed lampwork beads, including her signature carved copper encasements.
About the Author
Vickie Hallmark
vhallmark
Austin, TX, USA
Bridging many media, Vickie Hallmark pursues her artistic muses in whichever direction calls: metal, glass or fiber. This cross pollination of different ideas, coupled with her experimental nature as a research scientist, leads Hallmark to combine materials in novel ways. Metal over glass is a particular fascination, be it copper electroforming over lampworked beads, or silver metal clay formed around hand-painted enamel glass tiles.
Over the last decade, Hallmark's work has been exhibited internationally in juried fine craft shows such as Craft Forms, Crafts National, and Materials: Hard & Soft. Chosen as a Glasscraft Emerging Artist in 2007, Hallmark has published images of her beads in The Flow, The Glass Bead (publication of the International Society of Glass Beadmakers), and Bead Release 3, an annual compendium of that year's best beads. Her work has also appeared in Metal Clay Artist Magazine, and has been included in both museum and private collections.
Publish Date December 05, 2009
Dimensions Small Square 40 pgs
Standard Paper
Category Arts & Photography
Tags Hallmark, Vickie, tutorial, beads, glass, electroforming, copper, how-to, how, to
vhallmark says
Thanks!
posted at 07:21pm Dec 05 PST
cpleon says
The books are really beautiful Vickie!
posted at 07:08pm Dec 05 PST