A Flurry of Metal Clay
Flexible Copper (Hadar's Quick Fire) There's been a flurry of metal clay in my studio. My late winter goal was to use the older Hadar clay that I have so I can focus on her new One-fire clay. Over the years (yes it keeps that long in powder form) I've collected many containers of Quick-fire bronze, copper, steel, etc. They take longer to fire and have 3 stages of firing instead of 2. Hadar's Flexible Copper My mid-west background of using and saving kicked in and I would not allow myself to use the new One-fire clay until all the other was gone. So I started creating. First I was just going to make some simple earrings and then a pendant. Pretty soon I wondered how I could make some pieces using tools not used before. One thing led to another. Crisco Ad Engraving A metal engraved stamp for a Crisco ad that my mother saved became a necklace. When this piece was fired, it separated in two p...