I've finished today a pair of earrings. I think I'm officially
very patient person :o) well ... let's say not very very literary. I was doing
project that wanted to show construction that comes in two steps: one object,
then another object connected with the first and get the end product, it's like
1+2=3 :o) It sound simple, but with
metal clay not always working because not all metals are friendly to each other.
For example bronze and silver - very unfriendly to each other and you need a
lot of experiments to get right proportions or positions to have nice end
product and not pile of junk. Well.. lucky us (all metal clay artist) Hadar
Jacobson did that dirty job and explained in her blog and books. In short, I've
got construction OK, but the patina...... it looked like it took forever!!!! I
did a few times Verdigris patina on the metal clay, but this time.... probably
because details were small and just localized application, but it took me
probably a week to get the needed color. Every day I would put a few layers of
patina, then wait 12 hours to see developing, curse that metal clay is too
porous and again apply a few layers and so on and so on :o((( One more thing,
don't dry piece with wet patina on heated surface (like cup warmer) the patina dries off quickly and
reaction stops. No cutting corners in this process. How I know that? of course
I did try:o)
Caged Silver Drop
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