Here are a few things I'm currently working on.
I've been making my own copper and bronze clays. This picture illustrates the change in color for varying amounts of tin. Pure copper on the left, about 12% tin on the right. I'm already having some success combining copper and brass in the same piece. Hadar Jacobson is the go-to person for base metal clays. Visit her blog here:
http://www.artinsilver.com/blog/
These turtles are made with my own copper clay formula. The shells are made seperately, domed, and soldered to the bodies after the sintering process. These were early models and went quickly to some happy turtle enthusiasts. New turtles are in progress with both copper and GLASS shells. The last batch of glass shelled turtles went before I got pictures up.
These earrings are made from my own copper clay. I mix powdered copper with an organic binder and water. The binder burns off in the kiln, leaving solid copper. These designs are made with thinned down clay in a syringe with a 24 gauge needle by hand, so no two are alike.
These are made with rectangles of black glass and Thompson lead free enamels. I was going for a blistering, peeling paint effect with the enamel. I've rounded the corners on the grinder before firing. They were tack fused to 1325 F to adhere the enamel, now I'm tack fusing the pieces together. I'm making these to try out the silver plated brooch pin backs I got a while back.
The results of my first batch of copper clay.
Small fused glass critters. More to come on these in a few days.
I've finished making the pattern for a reproduction of a pair of windows from Charles Rennie Mackintosh's "House for an Art Lover" in Glasgow, Scotland. The pair will be installed in the front doors of a Silvertone victrola cabinet from the 1920's. This is just the left panel. The right panel is similar, but not a mirror image of this one. My version will be done with opaque glass, since there won't be light inside the cabinet. I made this pattern using TurboCAD 15 using a photo of the original windows as a reference.
Still making lots and lots of jewelry.
