Something that is always important when it comes to your jewellery pieces is the personal effort and customisation that goes into your designs that give them that cutting edge.

Art clay silver is a type of clay that can help to develop this, offering beautiful designs coupled with an added versatility that can aid in defining your work.

Art Clay Silver
Art clay silver is a water based clay first and foremost which is made out of the traditional components of water and binder combined with a pure silver powder.

Because the material is a silver clay, you have the potential of crafting the designs in any way, shape or form that you can possibly think of. Precious metal clay then is great for both beginners and experts looking to create amazing designs and improve their previous skills with working with the precious metal clays.

It is advised that if you are working with Art Clay Silver for the first time you may find it a bit daunting with it posing potential complications developing the intricate designs you want.

You should try to stick to more simple designs at first so that you build up your skill and confidence with the clay before moving on to the more difficult challenges.

The potential of Art Clay Silver
Art clay silver is incredibly easy to create beautiful designs with expression being easy through this form of clay.

Art clay silver can be shaped in any design you want once the design is wet, allowing you to experiment and tinker to find the right shape for your design.

Once you are happy with the design you have produced, and your art clay silver has now dried, the precious metal will now be as hard as plaster, meaning you can begin the finer touches to the design.

Carving is simple with a standard file to make the finer details and changes to the design.
But do not worry if you have come to the final application of the design and you find yourself not as happy with your design.

By simply adding water to the art clay silver, you can reverse the process taking the design back to clay and all the previous pieces that has been filled from the design being recyclable back to the clay or paste.

The finishing touches to your design
Now it comes to the firing of your designs to complete your personalised art clay silver design.

Once fired the final designs will become 99.9% pure silver but will shrink to within 8-9% of the original dried clay design. Now that your personalised gift is complete, simply finish with a brush down with a steel brush to add a finished polish and shine to the silver. So it is as simple as that!

You can now with these tips go on to practice with your art clay silver to find the styles and designs that make your work look amazing. If you keep practicing with the art clays then you will find yourself producing beautiful designs to give to your loved ones in no time.

Author Bio: Adam Hunter – E-commerce Marketing Manager of cooksongold.com. Cookson Precious Metals offer a choice of supplies from over 10,000 products including gold and silver wire, jewellery findings, tools, precious metal clay and art clay silver – gold, silver, platinum and palladium plus technical information for jewellers, jobbers, designer, craftsmen, artisans and students.

Category: Arts and Crafts
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