This is my first crack at working with precious metal clay, and I am so pleased and suprised with the results.
PMC is made of real silver particles mixed with a binder. You can manipulate much like ceramic clay, but it seems more fragile when raw. When fired to the correct temperature, the binder burns off and the silver particles fuse together to form a solid. Then you must burnish it to make it shiny, and you can oxidize it if you wish.
My pendant was created with several rubber stamp impressions and a cut out star. After firing and burnishing, it was oxidized twice. The second time was only on the face, and I stopped the process during the colorful stage, so the fact has subtle colors of gold, blue and pink.
I would love to hear your feed back on this. I plan to work with this medium in the near future, but there is some expense involved in the start up.
Friday, August 17, 2007
My First PMC Pendant
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5 comments:
Wow. What technique did you use? I've thought about dabbling in pmc clay myself.
Kiwi - After rolling out the pmc, I used portions of several stamps and a cut out star for the design. After firing, it was tumbled with steel shot in a tumbler, then hand polished and oxidized with liver of sulpher.
I can't wait to try more.
Jan
Are you using a kiln or a torch to fire it?
I used a kiln, or rather, the shop where I took a class fired it in their kiln. Now I am saving up for my own kiln!
Have you talked to anyone who fired with a torch? I have a mini-torch, but I can't afford a kiln!
What is liver of sulpher? It sounds DISGUSTING.
Pretty piece, btw!
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