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Grooving on Enameled Jewels: Enameling and Fine Silver Metal Clay
Get ready to explore a champlevé-style of enameling using metal clay, with the objective of making a simple enameled pendant using sintered (fired) fine silver metal clay as the base.
Metal clay offers a way to create cells and/or depressions for enamels, dispensing with the use of acids or soldering used in traditional champleve technique. Instead, we will carve silicone printing plates, whose images are then transferred to metal clay, creating the cells or depressions that resemble champlevé. Metal clay also permits the fabrication of a complete piece of jewelry without having to separately set an enameled form or having to solder.
During the first day of the class, original printing blocks will be carved and the metal clay will be printed using them to create the cells. You can use your own designs or those that the instructor will share. The printed metal clay will be formed into a pendant, dried and refined, fired and finished, then transparent enamels will be wet-packed into the cells and fired.
There is no prerequisite skill level, either in metal clay use or enameling, required for this workshop, though a familiarity with metal clay is helpful. If you have experience with metal clay, there will be time for you to add your own concepts to your pendant.
This workshop is a whirlwind three, seven-hour days. This will allow you to complete your construction, fire the metal clay and then enamel and fire your pieces and do final finishing
Please be advised: Due to the need to order supplies, we customarily close registration for our on-site offerings one week before the start date. If you wish to join the class after registration closes, please contact us at [email protected] or 781-891-3854.
Meet the instructor
Linda Kaye-Moses graduated from The University of Vermont ‘63 with unofficial majors in psychology, theatre, and ancient history, and she has been a studio jeweler making her work for over four decades, and she continues to make her jewels into this, the eighth decade of her life.
Kaye-Moses has exhibited her jewels at galleries and at major juried shows, including The Smithsonian Craft Show. She curated the exhibitions at The Bignell Gallery, CT: Millennial Metal; The Art of Precious Metal Clay; and Re-Collected/Re-Invented; the Narrative Craft Object.
Her jewels have been published as follows: 1991, Jewelry/Metalwork Survey No. 1; 1992 Who’s Who in American Crafts;1992,Jewelry/Metalwork Survey No. 2; 1993,Jewelry/Metalwork Survey No. 3;1996, In the Picture; Framing the Visual Arts, Oxford University Press, Australia; 2003, Art Jewelry Today, Schiffer Publishing; 2003, Creative Metal Clay Jewelry, Lark Books; 2003, Discovery; Fifty Years of Craft Experience at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, jewelry & essay; Univ of MN Press; 2005, Fabulous Jewelry from Found Objects, Lark Books; 2006, Making Metal Beads, Lark Publishing; 2007, PMC Decade, Brynmorgen Press and PMC Annual and New Directions in Metal Clay; 2008 Art JewelryToday II, and PMC Annual; 2009 Amulets and Talismans, (Author: Robert Dancik), Northlight Publishers and Metal Clay Beads: Techniques, Projects, Inspiration, (Author: Barbara Becker Simon), Lark Books; 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, PMC Annual; 2012, Contemporary Metal Clay Rings, Brynmorgen Press; 2011, Art Jewelry Today III; 2016, Art Jewelry Today IV,; 2017, Narrative Jewelry; Tales From the Toolbox; Schiffer Publishing; 2019, The Art of Fine Enameling, Stackpole Books.
She was a final juror for the international jewelry competition, The Saul Bell Design Awards (2010). From 1994-2002 Kaye-Moses was the Metal Studio Department Head at Interlaken School of Art (now Berkshire Art Center, Stockbridge, MA), has taught classes nationally and internationally.
She has received two Massachusetts Arts Lottery Council Grants, three Massachusetts Cultural Council Professional Development Grants; a Niche Award; and was twice a Saul Bell Design Award Finalist.
Materials & Tools
There is a $220 materials fee for this class that is payable upon registration. The materials kit includes:
20grams x ArtClay Silver Metal Clay
1 x 3x4inch Speedball Speedy-Carve Block
1 x Linoleum Carving Tool - Small ‘v’
1 x Linoleum Carving Tool Handle
1 x Prismacolor Ebony Pencil
1 x 3x5inch PVC pipe
1 x Silicon Mat & Work Surface
1 x Plastic Sheet Protector
This fee also covers the cost of various other communal studio supplies needed to complete exercises and projects.
- 3M Radial Bristle Discs - all grits
- 1 x Pink Aluminum Oxide Stone Point - Cylinder
- 1 x AdvantEdge White Arkansas Point - Point Shape
- 1 x Needle tool or extra-large sewing needle
- 1 x Deck of playing cards
- 1 x Salon-style/fingernail sanding board, coarse
- 1 x Permanent black ultra-fine line marker
- 1 x Clean ziploc bag to store dust mask when not in use (if you have a specific style of N95 masks that you prefer, feel free to bring it also)
- 1 x 5/0 or similar size pointed round sable paintbrush (extra-fine) – Dick Blick or Dick Blick
- 1 x Small glass or plastic eye dropper
- 1 x Infrared-filtering safety glasses designed for enameling/kiln work, Shade #2 or #3
- 1 x Personal safety glasses or face shield (Metalwerx also has some to share) – recommended
- 1 x Optivisor or similar magnifier (Metalwerx also has a selection you can borrow) – recommended
- 1 x Plastic watercolor paint tray OR 8 x small plastic or plastic-coated paper juice cups (not Styrofoam!) – optional
- 1 x magazine or catalog with glossy pages - optional
- Your favorite metal clay or enameling tools and supplies - optional
- Your favorite transparent blue, green, turquoise/aqua vitreous enamels - optionalX-acto Kinfe with #11 Blade
- 1 x Fine Tweezers
- 1 x Burnisher (if you have one - the studio has some to share if not) - optional
- Closed-toe shoes - required in the Metalwerx studio
- Notebook or sketchpad
- Pen or pencil
- Lunch – there will be a 1-hour break for lunch on each day of the workshop
- Metalwerx has a fridge, toaster oven, and microwave