Well what a couple of weeks, mostly GRRRR, but a few YAY monents. Notably my first play with art clay copper. Ok so i havent been able to get decent pictures of the final finish, but overall i'm happy, and still dont know what to do with them lol.
So been drawing up a shopping list for this week. Another pack of copper clay, a few tools and maybe a texture plate. Although my first experiements at making my own with polymer clay are pretty good so i may just use those, we'll see. I may also order some art clay silver. But not sure. Combining the two clays isnt an option until fired, and then you have to fire the copper first and design the silver so it 'shrinks' around the copper element. This could work with my inlay idea though. Still toying with buffalo horn plates and inlaid silver designs. This could work using the two clays. Just need to think it through a lil more as i'm still pretty new to working these clays.