A Bird and A Hare Necklace
Just needs a chain! Taking Hadar’s ‘Pictorial and Architectural Jewelry’ class was a 3 day adventure into using Hadar’s clay and her techniques. The first piece we made was with Low Shrinkage Steel XT clay with a small amount of copper added. She just discovered that the Steel XT low shrinkage clay does not need 2 phases of firing. Her manual is updated. www.artinsilver I’ll be using a lot more of that in the future. It was easy to mix and work with and has a longer working time. Our first project was to be the interior of a room. We were to start drawing a rectangle on tracing paper. Then we were to draw a second rectangle that would be a window. We drew lines to the corners of pieces. Now we had a ceiling, a floor, and two walls. We transferred that to layers of clay. Hadar’s direction for the perspective drawing was very simple and very effective. She wanted us to use her perspectiv...