What you will learn:
Class 1:
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Beads
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Beads using burn-out materials
Class 2:
- Lentil Beads
- Bead Forms and Hollow Forms
Class 3:
- Using Paper Clay
- Proper ways to fire Beads and how to support them
Class 4:
- Alternative settings in metal clay
- How to calculate shrinkage of metal clay
- Copying/Sizing your stone
Class 5:
- Making a replica of your stone
- Making Wire settings
Class 6:
- Making a Bezel setting
- Using pre-made Bezels
Class 7:
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Firing glass with metal clay
Class 8:
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Scrap Glass and metal clay
Class 9:
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Sgraffito on glass
Bonus Class:
- Open Lentil Bead
Bonus Items:
- Alternative Stone Setting Handout
- Glass Temperature Chart
- Downloadable Work Surface
- Materials List
About the course
Open Facebook Group to students of this course:
Curious Mondo: Precious Metal Clay (PMC) Jewelry
Time table:
9 hours
Level:
Basic / Intermediate / Advanced
Target market:
Jewelry makers, people interested in precious metal clay
Main objective:
Enhance your jewelry-making skills using metal clay
Prerequisite:
None
Intermediate Metal Clay Sneak Peek
About the instructor
Stephanie Chavez
Stephanie is a jewelry maker and instructor. She is a diverse artist, proficient in many jewelry mediums. Her go-to and preferred medium is Precious Metal Clay (PMC). The metal clay process enables Stephanie to create unique one-of-a-kind jewelry.
While working in the mixed media art industry she took her first class in PMC, was instantly hooked and has been working with metal clay since 2008. After being certified through Rio Grande in 2010 Stephanie began teaching. Stephanie has continued to perfect and share her craft by teaching others how to make their own jewelry and art. She believes we each have the capacity to be inspired creators. Many people just need a safe, fun, environment to explore their own creative limits and that is what she provides and shares, bringing people to the joy that she knows in her daily craft.
