Fun with Clay
Sunday, August 9th, 2009
As you’ll know from previous posts, I’ve been experimenting with different ways of making jewellery - well, I say ‘jewellery’, at the moment it’s just necklaces and pendants really - and I’ve been trying to think of a way to make my own larger pendants from scratch. I wanted to try metalwork, but since I’m lacking both the skill, the tools and the time, it was a bit of a non-starter, so instead I plumped for clay. I started out with plain off-white, intending to paint it, but instead hit on the idea of using pre-coloured clay in different hues moulded together, and then shaped accordingly.
I haven’t actually got round to making any of them into jewellery yet, but you’ll get the gist from the photograph below. I was really pleased with the way they turned out, and am now having fantastical visions of bead and clay neckwear extravaganzas….
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