Visual Philosophy Studio

Charlie was amazing!we both got to make different things! Kife n a bottle opener. Super fun.

Yorgi, our beginners class in forging teacher, was fantastic! We made decorative iron hooks. We learned some basics on how to work with metal, how to best protect ourselves while working with fire and heat, force, yielding and shaping. He made sure we had fun while learning. It was a "blast"

Amazing This was a gift for my bf who loves hands on stuff like glass blowing. Instructor was wonderful, clear, and very helpful with classes and helping me with my object. Also nice enough to let us do our own spoon rather than the typical can opener!

We had a great time in the beginner blacksmithing class! We got to have a private class with a very knowledgeable instructor who walked us through every step. We each made a super cool bottle opener to take home!

The instructor was clear and a very good teacher. Her teaching would be at a 4-5 star level. The class content could have been better. She went through the entire alphabet showing us how to write each letter, which was fine and useful, but I was surprise to realize that writing the alphabet was basically the entire of the class. I would have appreciated that portion to have been much faster (half the time, really - can similar letters be bunched together and taught at the same time vs. going through the alphabet chronologically?). I was hoping to learn more about hand lettering, such as numbers, technique, decorative styles. Or how to use an actual calligraphy pen. Maybe more tips and tricks for how to write with a "paint brush" tip felt pen/marker. I'd recommend this for the super duper beginner that wants to start from basics, revisit how they breakup and write each letter, and/or doesn't have a good cursive/script hand writing style.

Class was very helpful for beginner. Instructor spent a good amount of time showing how to form each letter of the alphabet. The class was relaxed and I enjoyed it very much.

The class was good and there were some very helpful tips. I think we could have reviewed the strokes and then moved on to some other styles of letteringgoing through the entire alphabet in script felt a bit cumbersome. Overall, great instructor and very thorough direction.

Dana was super friendly and a fun teacher! She has great hand lettering skills, and her work toward the end of the class was really pretty! Overall, it was very fun, and my team enjoyed it.

Some suggestions in the name of always improving!:
- I do wish we had been able to customize the level of the instruction a bit. Our company started up "communities" for people's hobbies and interests, so our crafting group participated. Because we are all pretty creative already, I think we could have benefited more from advanced technique training (connecting letters, bouncing fonts, etc.) rather than the more "entry-level" of how to write each letter. Perhaps we could have been instructed to practice the letters prior to the class, and then it could have jumped more into the techniques and different fonts / questions on how to achieve different looks.
- I wish the kit had lined paper included because that's what the instructor used. I think it would have been easier to follow along with that.
- The example stuff we received, and the initial examples the instructor did, were not the best looking writing. It made me a little skeptical of what we were getting into. But when she started doing the real examples, her writing was very nice and pretty! I wish the examples were more representative of her real ability to make it look more professional from the get-go!
- In traditional group art classes I've done (like a sips-n-strokes), the instructor would come around and check techniques, offer specific tips for improvement, etc. We had 16 people, but it would have been cool if we could show how we were doing along the way, and she could offer advice for how to make it better.
- The brush tip markers were too squishy to be able to get the thin lines I was trying to achieve without using the other side. I loved the one the instructor used. Perhaps those are too expensive to give out, but it would have been nice to have one that would really work well for us.
- I got two browns that were close to the same color, a neon yellow, and a purple. Would have liked to get a black or blue so I could do more with it.

Went for a company offsite and it was enjoyable as can be. Instructor was incredibly welcoming and helpful. Would recommend the experience to anyone with interest in trying something a bit different and interesting.