Service Description

New Course - This course will introduce students to using silver clay and also creating bezels using traditional soldering and bezel setting methods. It is a great course to provide a taster in both of these skills (previous silver clay experience would be an advantage but it's not essential). We will start with the basics to make a pendant from Art Clay Silver. I will begin by showing you how to roll, shape, add texture, cut and add small 3D elements/shapes such as tiny shells or leaves then dry, refine, and fire your piece. We will practice with some air drying clay to plan out your design before creating a pendant base from silver clay. While your silver clay pendant is drying, we will start making a bezel setting to encase some sea glass and the setting will be soldered on to the fired silver clay pendant. We will then add a bail before adding the sea glass which will then be set using a bezel setting technique. The following materials are included to create your jewellery - 1 x 10 gram packs of art clay silver to make a pendant including some small 3D shapes to add to the pendant. Jump Rings for the bail. Bezel strip to create a setting and sea glass is also included. You could if you prefer set a small gemstone or dichroic glass cabochon. Please feel free to bring some sea glass and we can check for suitability. Please note there will be size limitations and glass needs to be reasonably flat and not too thick. We can do a small amount of cold working to make glass flat on the bottom but glass that is too thick won't be suitable. Tools for cutting/rolling and adding textures etc with also be available to use. I will also provide students with a 15% discount code that can be used to purchase art clay silver products online at Metal Clay (can be used on a total of 3 orders for art clay silver products only). * all content including course format and written support material is © of The Cheshire School of Jewellery and should NOT be used, duplicated, modified or copied for use in any other educational setting without prior agreement.