I always use a magnetic finisher to burnish my pieces right out of the kiln, whether I’m planning to simply patinate them or enamel. This machine creates a surface that works for both processes. When I taught “Grooving on Metal Clay & Enamels” at The Enamelist...
Make Flexible Metal Clay There are dozens of different methods online about making your own flexible metal clay (this is yet another one). Most I've seen either involve precise measurements, which never seem to work, or require you to pretty much make a mess (yeah,...
Industry update By Carrie Story Director of the Camp PMC Certification Program in the U.S. The metal clay industry just received some information about one of our core products. I was informed last week that Mitsubishi Materials Trading Company (MMTC) will no longer...
I’d like to share a few thoughts about goal setting. I’ve run across students and artists who set goals like “I want to win the Saul Bell Award” or other recognition awards and they pin their happiness on that goal. But setting goals that are outside of your control...
Linda Kaye-Moses is a jeweler, author and fiber artist. Her neckpiece ‘Les Fleur de l’Age d’Or’ was juried into the Superbly Sintered: Masterful Designs in Metal Clay Exhibition running at the Sinter Conference in Pittsburgh in May 2022. You can see the piece on this...
When I was asked to write a guest blog last year for the first Bits and Pieces Challenge, I was a little bit worried that nobody would be interested in my musings on the subject. But when I started to write it I found I quite liked the idea I was just talking to...
Anca Crahmaliuc from Romania is one of the artists who regularly enters our just-for-fun monthly Bits and Pieces challenges in the public Metal Clay Fun with AMCAW Facebook group. There are no prizes for this challenge but the artists who enter something always get...
This year I hit my half-century mark and so far, I’ve had three ‘careers’ in my life. My first was in sales and I sold everything from advertising copy, to packaging materials (I know far too much about the technical details of cardboard boxes) to smart cars. I learnt...
Have you ever thought about entering a challenge and wondered how other artists approach a design challenge? Annemarie Klappe shares what inspired her, and how she approached designing her entry for a recent Bits and Pieces Challenge. Her winning piece evolved during...
