Precious Metal Clay

For now, some early efforts

This page collects together the series of six posts about my beginning efforts to make something worthwhile in pmc (precious metal clay). My thanks go to MS, D B-W, and AS, fellow members of the pmc sig. Despite the fact that I often skipped, did some other craft instead of pmc, etc., ever so slowly, just the discipline, however erratic, of attending the pmc has finally, a year after taking Ivy Solomon's workshop, begun to mature my ideas about this wonderfully plastic medium. Not to mention Ivy herself, and those inventive, inventive Japanese, who just seem to have the knack for coming up with the coolest art supplies (pmc is a Japanese product, as are the brush pens, disposable non-clogging technical pens, and archival callig markers I'm happy to say populate my art supply drawers.)

...and Celie Fago's keum boo technique. Originally posted 19jan06.

 

Ever so slowly, my pieces are mutating away from Ivy Solomon and Celie Fago's. Originally posted 20jan06.

 

The highly textural experiments arising from my first pmc workshop. Originally posted 21jan06.

 

For example, we tried playing with variable patination.... Originally posted 18jan06.

 

About a year later I took a second, ultimately more successful workshop, this time using forms (marbles) and stamps, thereby making a considerably more production oriented set of items. Originally posted 16jan06.

 

Another reason I stuck with pmc this time around was that several of the ivy workshop participants started a sig to foster our development. Originally posted 17jan06

 

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