Workshop Description

This Glorious Goddess Pendant workshop will inspire your creativity! Over two days of project-based instruction, you will create a beautiful goddess pendant using fine silver metal clay and silversmithing techniques. Create your own bezels using a stone for the body and a porcelain or bone face cabochon. Gain deeper understanding about design, metal clay skills, bezel fabrication, soldering, stone setting, patina, and polishing.

Over two days you will be working with a basic metal clay tool kit, textures, molds, torches, hot plates, jewelry saws and blades, bezel cutting tools, stone setting tools, soldering tools, flux, kiln, burnishing tools and tumbler, flex-shaft and finishing burs, patina and polishing pads.

Improve your skills in the areas of:

Design
Metal clay texturing
Molding and sculpting
Bezel fabrication
Stone setting
Soldering
Patina and polishing

Day 1:

Focused on design, metal clay work, and creating bezels for your stones

Day 2:

Soldering, setting stones, adding patina, and polishing your pendants.

Students are encouraged to bring their own basic metal clay tool kits, safety goggles, bezel setting tools, and any textures or molds they wish to use. However, I will also provide tools, molds, and textures for students to share.

Course Material Kit

In addition to course registration, a separate materials kit must be purchased from the instructor for $ 150 and will contain: 30 grams of Project X fine silver flex metal clay, fine silver bezel wire, sterling silver sheet, 26 gauge (6x3 inch), focal stone, face cabochon, hard, medium, and easy solder, two sterling silver jump rings, and finishing burs.