Exploring Milliput Online Workshop. 16.05.25 10am- 4pm (GMT)
Milliput is a versatile epoxy putty which is highly adhesive to most materials. Milliput can be sculpted and once cured can be machined, drilled, tapped, carved. Turned, filed, sawn, sanded and painted.
On this day workshop you will be introduced to the medium of Milliput and explore its properties, potential and limitations. Once you have mastered a few basics your creativity can run wild with creating beautiful and completely unique elements for your jewellery designs.
Your workshop will be structured as follows
· Welcomes and general chat about Milliput, materials, safety and approach to design
· Gemma will guide you through mixing milliput and its properties at each stage of setting/curing
· Creating beads
· Creating pendants and connectors, embedding wires
· Adding texture (pre cure)
· Embedding gemstones and other embeddable items
· Setting a cabochon
· Freeform modelling
· Using molds
· Using Mica powder pre cure.
Setting time varies for each piece and it is unlikely that you will have many pieces that are ready for sanding.painting. and so the last hour of the workshop will be dedicated to demonstrating these techniques ready for when your items are fully set.
Materials
· Milliput, I will be using white, but milliput can be purchased in a variety of colours/finishes. ( I recommend getting two boxes as I am certain you will want to try lots of projects!)
· Sculpting tools (doesn’t need to be expensive or fancy, tooth picks and kitchen utensils will be fine to start with)
· Latex Gloves (optional)
· Silicone Matt to work on and one to place items to cure (oven liners works well)
· 0.6mm wire
· 1mm wire
· A cabochon or similar to embed
· Paint brush
· Water bowl
· Babywipes or damp cloth to keep hands clean.
Other tools or accessories you may wish to use
· Texture plates/stamps/sheets (even texture wall papers, leaves, bubble wrap
· Mica Powders
· Any embeddable items (gems, shells, shell veneers, pearls, chain, jumprings anything really that you want to push into your milliput)
· Bezels.
As some of your pieces will not be fully set, the last hour of the workshop will focus on demonstrating how to paint, create texture, sand and protect your finished pieces