Art of Silver Metal Clay
Art of Silver Metal Clay – (1) Session
In this workshop you’ll learn how to design, sculpt, and fire your own jewelry using Precious Metal Clay (PMC). PMC is a clay form similar to the texture and feel of natural clay, but containing very fine particles of silver. The silver particles combined with the organic clay material, allow jewelry making as simple as filling a mold, or as intricate as sculpting fine details into your piece. Once your design has completely dried, turning it into silver only requires being fired with a torch, rather than learning to properly use a kiln.
The finished piece, once fired, leaves you with 99% pure silver jewelry, which can then be polished, etched, enameled, or colored with patina. For a more elegant or expensive piece, many gemstones can also be fired in the clay or set in afterwards.
You’ll learn:
Different types of metal clay and what they are used for.
The stages of workability of the clay, how to store it, and fire it.
Takeaways
- How to work with PMC
- Rolling & Cutting Metal Clay
- Creating Your Own Texture
- Wet and Dry Construction
- Firing your Piece with a Torch
- Making Wire-like Forms in Metal Clay
- Fire in Place Bezel Gem Setting
For this class you will need:
- Fine Silver Metal Clay such as PMC3
- 25g, 2- 5 mm fire in place gems ( must withstand 1650 ˚ for torch firing)
- 400 grit sandpaper
- 3M polish paper
- Metal clays sculpting tools
- Polishing cloth
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Nina Rossi
About the Instructor
Nina Rossi is a Licensed Funeral Director, in New York with a passion for creativity, sculpting, and psychology. She began her creative journey by discovering new skills as an artist. Today, she creates one of a kind memorials and keepsake jewelry with Know Before You Go Inc and Create And Inspire Inc. Nina is a self taught artist, sculptor, teacher, designer and color enthusiast. She doesn’t mind getting her hands dirty, using power tools, playing with abstract and unconventional methods of creativity. She enjoys exploring the world of three dimensional art forms and sharing her techinques with her students.