by Elaine Luther
This is your guide to learning to create with Precious Metal Clay online, 100% for free. I’ve searched the web for the best of free videos and how-tos, and even more importantly, I’m presenting them to you here in a logical order.
The internet is full of free information, but when you’re a beginner, how do you know how to harness that information?
I was inspired to create this tutorial by the concept of a web quest, a teaching tool.
According to WebQuest.org, “a WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web.”
In this web adventure, I present excellent resources on beginning to work with metal clay, in a logical order. Let’s get started!
Tools You Need
Supplies for Beginning Working with Metal Clay
http://www.creativetexturetools.com/news
Top Ten Tools for Metal Clay
http://www.Squidoo.com/PMCtopten
Precious Metal Clay, Getting Started and Beyond
http://www.squidoo.com/allthingsmetalclay
How to Work the Clay
Videos from Art Jewelry Magazine: MUST BE A REGISTERED USER, registration is free
Metal Clay
http://www.artjewelrymag.com/ART
Repairing a Break In Metal Clay
http://www.artjewelrymag.com/art
Making Metal Clay Paste
http://www.artjewelrymag.com/art
Texturing Metal Clay
http://www.artjewelrymag.com/art
More on textures
http://www.squidoo.com/metal-clay-textures
Rolling & Cutting Metal Clay
http://www.artjewelrymag.com/art
Liver of Sulfur Patina
http://www.artjewelrymag.com/art
Making Lavender-Oil Paste For Metal Clay
http://www.artjewelrymag.com/art
Firing Metal Clay with a Handheld Butane Torch
Getting Started with PMC pdf, PMC Guild.com
http://www.pmcguild.com/gettingstarted/gettingstarted.html
Video Clips
http://www.pmcguild.com/gettingstarted/video_clips.html
Rolling Coils
http://www.creativetexturetools.com/news
Choosing Combustible Cores
http://www.creativetexturetools.com/news
Relatively Simple First Project:
http://pugetsoundmetalclay.com/shellpendant.htm
Rehydrating Dryish Clay
http://www.creativetexturetools.com/news
Reconstituting Metal Clay
http://langeestla.canalblog.com
http://www.silverclayart.com/reclaim_clay.htm
Add gold foil using Keum boo
http://alienorbijoux.canalblog.com
and
http://www.pmcconnection.com/pdf/KUMBOO.pdf
Stone setting
Overview of choices
http://www.creativetexturetools.com/resources
Using tabbed bezel wire from Metal Clay Findings
http://www.metalclayfindings.com/pdfs/bezelwirehowto.pdf
Embed prong setting, fire in place, set stone after firing
(free pdf project at Art Jewelry)
http://www.artjewelrymag.com/art
Setting Stone using a recessed bezel cup
http://pugetsoundmetalclay.com/bookofkells.htm
Stone setting using a plaster plug and making your own fine silver bezel wire (can be made to fit any cabochon stone)
http://pugetsoundmetalclay.com/freeformbezel.htm
How to Torch Fire
Video Clips:
http://www.pmcguild.com/gettingstarted
Video, how to torch fire MUST BE A REGISTERED USER
http://www.artjewelrymag.com/art
Which Torch is Best
http://www.creativetexturetools.com/news
How To Kiln Fire
http://www.paragonweb.com/videos
How to Tumble-polish
http://www.jewelrylessons.com
How to add Liver of Sulphur
http://www.hollygage.com
How to add Liver of Sulphur without dipping
http://www.creativetexturetools.com/news
Liver of Sulfur Patina
http://www.artjewelrymag.com/ART
Iridescent Patina
by Katherine Palochak
http://www.ganoksin.com
Additional skills to use with metal clay:
Make your polymer clay texture plates
http://blog.craftygoat.com
Make your own photopolymer plates
http://www.silverclayart.com
Video by Tonya Davidson:
http://www.wholelottawhimsy.com
Dry Metal Clay? It Could Be Your Hands (and what to do about it)
http://www.creativetexturetools.com/news
What else? Have I missed any essential skill? A great tutorial that you know about? Tell me, and the world, by posting a comment below, and feel free to post the url of the great tutorial you recommend. Thanks!
Learn to use Metal Clay, FREE, online! by Elaine Luther is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at www.creativetexturetools.com.
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Update: Want to learn to use BronzClay? See this post:
Round up of All Information Available on BronzClay
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Elaine,
Thank you so much for all the resources you provide for metal clay beginners. I take my very first class this Saturday!!! I’m sooooo excited!
Wow what a resourceful list! Thank you so much for putting these links all in one place. I appreciate the time and effort it must have taken you to put together!
An excellent learning list, I have added it onto my Jewellery making blog as a post.
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Wow! I’ve spent an entire afternoon on your site! I’m just getting started in metal clay. Thanks for all the useful info!!
Thanks so much! I’m so glad to know you found it helpful. Did you find the information you were looking for? Was the site easy to use? Any info. you couldn’t find?
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Thankyou for the links! Its always nice to find new ways of doing things, or new projects to try.
Thanks so very much for compiling all this info. It’s very helpful to have one site where you can find so many good tutorials.
You’re welcome! Thanks so much for letting me know that you like it!
I have never been good while searching something exact on the internet, you have summed up the links, its a great help. Would you please do such effort to provide such links regarding polymer clay.
Hmm. Two great sources for info. on polymer clay are: The Crafty Goat and The Polymer Clay Tutor. Those are my go-to gals when I have a question about polymer clay. Hope that helps!
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