Jewelry, inspired by Nature
Silver and photography have a traditional link. Because silver is the most reflective metal, its compound, silver nitrate, reacts to light and darkens depending on its intensity. In this way, making the film light sensitive silver has been used in photography … Continued
It can be challenging to duplicate.objects when making silver clay earrings Lizards have fantastic body shapes: ideal to be shaped in silver clay. Making a lizard on a leaf pendant is probably no big deal, but making earrings is a … Continued
Precious metal clay is a wonderful material: it allows even an inexperienced jewelry maker to put together a jewelry piece without soldering. The easiest way is of course gluing together elements of unfired silver clay. But how do you assemble … Continued
Al twee jaar ben ik bezig met het maken en verkopen van mijn zilveren sieraden via het Internet (op dawanda.com en www.etsy.com). Nee, ze gaan niet als warme broodjes over de toonbank. Maar het was tot nu toe de enige … Continued
These are the silver clay cat earrings… They are not exact copies of each other, but come quite close.
Yesterday, in attempt to recycle an absolutely failed fine silver piece, I melted the silver to a lump which vaguely reminded me of a tulip. After some carving and filing the tulip shape became so distinct that I decided to … Continued
Making earrings has always been my biggest challenge. I don’t like duplicating anything, let alone mirror-duplicate. Sometimes I envy the ‘hot of the press’ serial jewelry production: 1000 copies and all perfect. But I love artistic freedom and there’s a … Continued
The most magical feature of silver clay is the possibility to make silver clay molds of nearly everything: from living flowers to artifacts made long ago by our ancestors. I have inherited from my great-grandmother some antique wood carvings, among … Continued
The shining sun gave me the courage to do something I postponed for a long time. Yesterday I opened my 50 g pack of Art Clay Silver (aka ACS). I postponed it because I don’t like this material preferring its … Continued
Collecting pictures for a Pinterest board can lead to interesting discoveries. You can discover a lot about your own taste, but also about the things you like. Pinning items for my first board White Cat Art I browsed hundreds of … Continued