Got a couple of them shined up, relatively and ready to move on. It’s interesting stuff – not as easy as the silver clay, but a lot cheaper. Has quite a bit of character. I like it.
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I forgot to take a photo of the pieces right out of the kiln – next time. The same pieces that were shown ready to fire in my previous entry are shown below – shined up a bit, and with some embellishment added to one of the pendants. They are almost the same color [...] I realized I know nothing about Bronze – except that it is a metal and it often looks old. In deciding to learn a little more, so I looked on the History for Kids website. I learned that it is actually a combination of two metals – copper and tin. Copper must lend to [...] Bronze Clay! Cool! I opened my 100 gram package of bronzclay tonight. I was tired after work and I plan to do more tomorrow and I I didn’t do anything specific with it tonight – just took it out and kneaded it, rolled it, and played with it a little bit. It has [...] this bracelet using one of my favorite techniques – free form peyote. Free form is all about the journey, as the beads ebb and flow onto the thread. There is no plan or design. I think the most important consideration is the colors used and that a variety of sizes of beads make up the [...] |
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