What's New on the Metal Clay Academy Website?
This page provides you with a quick idea of what's been added in the past month. If you are a regular visitor, you can see what we've added since your last visit here.
Archived What's New pages for earlier months can be seen here
April What's New Archive - you can see everything that was added during April 2012 here.
17th May
A new downloadable tutorial for adding gold to metal clay was added.
Accent Gold for Silver v2 Instructions from Jewelry Material Innovations Inc
These downloadable instructions relate to the updated version of AGS released in 2009. This pdf also includes depletion gilding instructions to use AGS with sterling or Argentium silver.
16th May
A new downloadable Copprclay guide was added.
Copprclay Firing Guide - Wanaree Tanner
Download the useful pdf document about firing Copprclay by Wanaree Tanner.
New web page tutorials for Copprclay were added.
Copprclay Troubleshooting - Wanaree Tanner
Visit Wanaree's blog to find out tips and tricks when working with Copprclay.
Dealing with Distortion - Wanaree Tanner
Visit Wanaree's blog to see how she deals with distortion in her Copprclay creations.
15th May
A new silver work class provider was added.
Silvera Jewelry School - Berkeley, CA
Silver work, enameling, ring making and wax casting classes.
14th May
A new metal clay blog was added.
Patrik Kusek
Award winning metal clay artist and teacher Patrik Kusek has a great blog that's well worth a read.
13th May
A new website for people selling their metal clay work was added.
Luula
Luulla is a handmade marketplace where you can buy and sell handmade items and share handmade tips and ideas. You can sell using a pay-as-you-go system where each credit costs $0.10 USD per item listing for a period of 4 months. There is no transaction fee charged. Or a monthly flat fee of $9.90 USD per month. There are no extra listing cost and transaction fee charged.
12th May
A new PMC Sterling metal clay web page resource was added.
Celie Fago - Designing for PMC Sterling
Blog entry covering lots of design tips, shrinkage factors and firing tips.
11th May
PMC Guild Fusion
The final issue of the PMC Guild journal Fusion has now been made available to members. Highlights include news that Rio Grande will take over the running of the Guild website and keep the invaluable information contained there as a resource for everyone. They will also archive all the Guild publications so they are available going forward. Jobie Fagans will continue to administer the PMC Guild Chapters and is encouraging people to continue their chapter work. Chapter pages will remain a part of the Guild website and if you want to set up a new Chapter, this will be supported. We're sad to see the PMC Guild go but encouraged about the future of the resources and publications.
Hadar's Bronze XT
Hadar Jacobson has now launched Bronze XT and updated her instruction manual to include this.
10th May
A new resource for adding colour to metal clay was added.
Jewellery Artist - Coloring for Metalsmiths
This article outlines a number of ways to add color to metal including some information about how Deb Karash uses Prismacolor pencils in her designs.
9th May
A new downloadable jewelry making tutorial provider was added.
Jewelry Making Daily
Free downloadable tutorials and how-to guides about a wide range of silver work and jewellery making subjects.
8th May
A new professional organisation was added.
American Gem Trade Association
Find a reputable gem supplier using the directory on this trade association website.
7th May
A new jewellery making training provider was added.
Sharilyn Miller - Idyllwild, CA
Wirework, metal work, jewellery and beading classes. Also has workshops on DVD for sale from her website.
6th May
A new US supplier of gems and stones was added.
Dikra Gem
US supplier of semi precious cabochons and faceted stones.
5th May
A new copper clay training provider was added.
Cindy Pankopf's Creative Place - Fullerton, California
Wide range of classes including beginners to advanced metal clay, Art Clay Certification and copper clay classes.
4th May
A new metal clay training provider was added to multiple pages.
Krasl Art Center - Saint Joseph, MI
Wide variety of classes including silver clay, bronze clay and copper clay, jewellery making and metal working.
3rd May
An international metal clay supplier has been updated.
Metal Clay Alchemist - Canada
Canadian suppliers of Art Clay, tools, findings, gems, glass, books etc. They also offer classes.
2nd May
New UK bead suppliers were added.
Crystal Avenue
UK stockist and authorised distributor of Preciosa®, Genuine Czech Crystals. Crystal Avenue offer a large assortment of wholesale and retail pack sized quantities in an exciting array of colours, shapes, sizes and finishes.
Crystal Parade
Crystal Parade specialize in Rhinestone Crystals selling through wholesale and retail trade. Although less than one year old we are already one of the leading suppliers in the UK supplying Swarovski Crystals to individuals and businesses alike.
1st May
A new international Art Clay and PMC Supplier was added.
Metal Clay - Switzerland
PMC and Art Clay supplier, also supplies bronze and copper clay, tools and stones.
