This is exciting - how about submitting some beautiful metal clay beads?
Lark Books > Artist and Author Submissions > Designer Entry Forms:
"Lark Books seeks images of handmade contemporary metal beads for publication in a book titled Making Metal Beads. We wish to receive images of not only individual beads, but bead groupings and beads as elements in a finished piece of jewelry. Diverse techniques and styles desired: transformed commercial seamless beads, beads made from tubing, soldered double-dome beads, cold-connected beads, fused ones, and those made in hydraulic presses all considered."
Tuesday 28 June 2005
Inspiring Courses
I've just had two weekends of courses in a row. Tiring, but a lot of fun!
The courses are so inspiring - it is lovely to fill a room with creative people, put a new material in their hand, give them the basic techniques, and then let them go ahead and create. The pieces some students produce in the short time of a day course are impressive. And it is fascinating to see how people's designs are so different. When they start playing with textures, adding stones, adding syringe work - considering they don't get much time to really sit and plan their design, the results are stunning. And that is in ONE day, with people who have never worked with Art Clay before.
The students all have different backgrounds, some are completely new to crafts and arts, others have backgrounds as sculptors, painters, card makers, silversmiths and metal artists. I've had so many fascinating people as students; teachers, web designers, accountants, jewellery artists, mums, glass makers, polymer clay artists - most of them will go back home and take inspiration from their backgrounds and daily life, and will bring this into their metal clay creations. When they decide to stay in touch, it is so exciting to follow their progress. They come back with questions that pushes me to explore, test and push my work in silver clay further. I probably learn just as much as my students.
Unfortunately, despite putting the camera on the table, I forgot to take pictures on both weekends, yet again. Aarrgh.
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Petra Wennberg
Art Clay Senior Instructor
SilverClay - a subsidiary of Petra Lyon Ltd
Thursday 23 June 2005
Exciting new prices...
Hello there blog-readers, today you get a sneek preview.
I'm just about finished with updating the website - I've got new amazing summer prices on all the clay.
And I have also prepared a page on the website for a new product which will be launched later this summer - Slow Tarnish Clay, Paste and Syringe.
Wednesday 15 June 2005
Why this blog?
This blog makes it easy for me to share any exciting information I might have, ideas, tips or special offers. It will be about Art Clay, silver and gold clay, and all the exciting things you can use with it - like, glass, porcelain, enamelling, transfers, resins, accent gold for silver, and anything else I can think of.
Who am I?
I'm Petra Wennberg, a certified Art Clay Senior Instructor. I discovered metal clays a few years ago, when I was making wire and bead jewellery. I thought it sounded like a joke to start with: "A clay that turns into fine silver? Yeah, sure!" - when I realised it was true I got VERY excited.
A little over 1.5 years ago I discovered that I was pregnant, and decided that it was time for a life change. I decided to work with Art Clay full time and left my job as an Events Manager for a marketing agency in London. I said good bye to the big city and hello to the quaint little village Corfe Castle, in Dorset. I now split my time between being a mum and selling Art Clay and zillions of tools and equipment to use with the clay. I also run courses in my studio, so you're more than welcome if you want to learn more!
So, I hope you'll enjoy my posts, if you have any comments, please add them.
Petra
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