Silver guitar pendant: I’ve had so much interest about this pendant, I’ll make another if someone would like it. Details here:
Check out this lovely guitar pendant, it is great to see what can be made from silver clay. Don’t forget to buy your supplies at www.chunungatree.com
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Everyone was busy at Queens Park Art Centre last Sunday at our Jewellery class based on using natural forms. Have a look at some of the beautiful creations captured in silver - what do you think? Well done everyone, hope you enjoyed the day.
What a hectic week! We had a full studio last Saturday as part of our popular Open Studio Fortnights and we had lots of busy people making many wonderful creations. This week has been heads down preparing for a jewellery workshop at Queens Park Art Centre this coming Sunday based on Natural Forms. This pendant was created by applying silver clay paste to a cotton pod and finishing off with some Kurecolor Inks.
Our Bucks Open Studio entry is now finalised! Dates for your diary 9th - 24th June, we will be open for visitors every weekend.
This pendant is still in progress but we wanted to show you what fun we are having with our new Kurecolor Inks we now have in stock. They add permanent colour to metal, plastic, glass and ceramic.
Make glass cabochons with dichroic inserts. We used Bullseye COE90 glass for the project. You will need a kiln to fire these or one of our microwave kilns which can be placed inside your microwave to fully fuse glass pieces.
Cut some clear glass using a glass cutter and layer in the dichroic “noodles” over the base of piece of clear glass. Make sure you layout your design on some ceramic fibre paper to prevent sticking to your kiln shelf. Add another piece of clear glass on the top to create a “glass sandwich”. To stop the inserts moving around hold them together using some glass fusing glue or watered down PVA. To create a more rounded effect on the fused piece make sure you make the top layer of glass bigger than the base piece so this melts around the whole piece and round the edges of the glass piece. We even changed the shape of some our fused glass using a Taurus Ring Saw and then re-fired to give a fire polish.
Once fully fused these glass cabochons are ready to add ready made jewelry fittings. Alternatively why not add a silver clay frame, leave a little room around the glass to allow for shrinkage and then re-fire at 1100degF(593degC) for 30 minutes
DIY Embroidered Gold Leaf. Tutorial from The idea Room here to make “leaf skeletons”, or you can buy them at your crafts store. Photo found at Susan Elliott’s Plays with Needles here.
