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1. What is Art Clay Silver? |
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2. How is Art Clay manufactured? |
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3. What is the secret to
success in working with Art Clay Silver? |
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4. How to purchase Art Clay products? |
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5. Can I conduct Art Clay
Workshop? |
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1. What is Art
Clay Silver? |
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Art Clay Silver is a pure metal powder mixed
with non-toxic binders and water. When kiln, torch or stove
fired, the binders burn away, leaving pure, 99.9% silver. Art
Clay Silver can be added to a variety of media: glass, ceramics,
porcelain and polymer clay to name a few. It can be rolled,
sculpted, stamped, sanded, filed, engraved, drilled and pre-polished,
all prior to firing. Once fired, it is pure silver and can be
treated like any other pure silver. More information about the
different products can be found here. |
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2. How
is Art Clay manufactured? |
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Art Clay is a recycled product manufactured
by Aida
Industries in Japan. Aida recycles and reclaims a variety
of different metals, and the silver comes from many different
sources, like film stock and negatives. |
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3. What
is the secret to success in working with Art Clay Silver? |
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The secret is to follow the 10-80-10 rule.
Spend no more than 10% of your time working on the roughing
out the shape while the clay is malleable. Allow 80% of your
time to focus on working the dry clay into the exact state you
want. This is where you file, sand, cut, and engrave your work.
The piece should be mostly finished. The remaining 10% should
come after the firing, and spent finishing the piece, sanding
and polishing. |
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4. How to purchase products? |
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Click here
for more details. |
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5. Can
I conduct Art Clay workshop? |
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Once you have completed out Certified
Instructor Course and certify as an Instructor, you can
conduct your own workshop at your own premises. |
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