Let’s spend the weekend on the coast, making metal clay jewelry! Join me at the Mendocino Art Center March 17 and 18th. Making shadow boxes. Please sign up by Thursday March 1. We’ll have fun, make jewelry all in beautiful Mendocino. Workshop Description How do you house your favorite stone, image, or other treasure? In […]
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I’ve been working a lot with PMC Sterling lately and it’s been so exciting. Exploring the strength of new sterling, making sterling flexible clay, lots and lots of carving. Plus I’ve been exploring new ways to work with resin. Well… new to my work, using copper and gold leaf and embedding watch gears. I love
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Spent part of the day today in Sonoma in the wine country. Such a beautiful day today. Mid 60s, wisps of clouds in the air. I love the Carneros Appellation. Headed over to our favorite lunch spot the Boon Fly Cafe, however due to the 3 day weekend it was a 45 minute wait! Where
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Shadowbox by Patrik Kusek EXQUISITE SHADOWBOX with Patrik Kusek at Dynasty Art Studio, San Juan Capistrano, CA $95.00 + cost of clay Learn to make a framed shadow box using dry-to-dry construction techniques in metal clay. In this one day class you’ll build and construct a shadow box using your choice of texture. You’ll learn
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Aura 22 EARRINGS & PENDANT With Patrik Kusek $95.00 + cost of clay The golden touch! Adding gold to metal clay with Aura22. In this one day class we’ll make a pendant and earrings using your choice of design. Then we’ll explore adding real gold to our pieces. Aura 22 is real 22K gold in
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http://dynastyartstudio.com/ringpartypk.html I’m so excited to be visiting to SoCal! I’ll be at Dynasty Art Studio teaching for 3 days! For those of you who know Dynasty Art Studios is home to Candace Gate creator of Dynasty Stamp. The BEST texture plates ever! So join us! It’s going to be fun! Saturday March 10th from 10:00
Yesterday I presented a demo to my local metal clay guild. It was great to see everyone again and also wonderful to see so many new faces! A big thanks to Penelope and Judy for organizing and promoting! The topics included an overview of textures and how to create custom textures. Plus an easy method
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This is a follow up to an earlier post on patina. On the Brynmorgen Press website Tim has included a wonderful resource section. Among the great tools, you can download different patina recipe posters that supplement the video. This is a great resource! Go to this site right now and download them, then buy the
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For those of you who attended the CraftCast event, thank you so much! Some of you have asked about the cuff that I featured. The cuff is made of FastFire BronzClay using my current favorite texture tool. The textured rolling pin from Aftosa. Find it at this link www.aftosa.com Also inquiring minds asked about the
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Don’t miss tonight’s free demo on www.craftcast.com. 5 of us are going to demo our favorite tools! There are going to be TONS of prizes as well, plus a few tips and tricks for metal clay, polymer clay and jewelry making. You don’t want to miss this one. Sign up now to avoid the rush.
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I’m so very excited. I just saw that Woodland Chic: Metal Clay Jewelry as Nature Intended was ranked #7 in the top 10 Craft and Hobby section of Lulu! Thanks to everyone who bought a copy!
Exciting news! Today my book is ranked in the top 10! Read More »
My friend Carson came over today to work on his blog. As we sat and discussed his blog we talked not only of functionality but of the design. I’m reminded that the fundamentals of good design are true across most mediums. Concepts like contrast, color choices, texture all play important roles in the design decisions
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You can only have so much slip, then what? I found this technique a couple of years ago for reconstituting metal clay and I love it! I recommend it to all my students. I used to HATE reconstituting old dried metal clay projects that didn’t work out. The main reason was because I didn’t have
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So you know I love the faux bois. But can’t seem to make up my mind on this one. What do you think? Ugly or FAB-U-LOUS. I’m thinking it MUST be better in person right? Especially for $300? Matters of Style Marketplace: Turquoise Faux Bois Garden Stool Table.
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Love this idea. I think I might try this out with polymer clay instead. Free Project Friday: Mushroom Terrarium « Lark Crafts Lark Crafts.
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Here’s one more class, this time we’ll play with combining polymer clay and metal clay! Sign up today to grab a spot!
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