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The Art of Metal Clay: Techniques for Creating Jewelry and Decorative Objects

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I have recently been interested in polymer clay and when I found out that there was Metal Clay I was very excited. In hopes to find out more, I recently ordered Sherri Haab book as well as Precious Metal Clay in Mixed Media, by Mary Ann Devos. Sherri's book is a much better book for me as a beginner. I'm more of a visual learner and I do better with picture steps, which this book has. Very detailed written and pictured steps that help guide me through the projects. It includes creative uses of tools that can easily be found around the house or at a local thift store. She also shows detailed ideas of how to mix different mediums together. I feel like my projects will have more of a success rate do to this book.

Sherri has produced an excellent book that will appeal to all levels of Silver Clay users. Not limiting to one brand, I found that useful with the firing charts etc. She covers carving, setting stones, textures, rings, boxes and beads beautifully together with working with molds. I did like her taste of using other media with your PMC, i.e. Resin, Polymer, Glass together with using Gold Clay. Excellent descriptive instructions, great photos of the how to steps and completed piece. I have three Silver Clay books I recommend to my students, this is one of them ( the other two: CeCe Wire and Tim McCreight's). Well worth buying.

Being a PMC afficionado and owning, I think, every (!) book on it, this was STILL a very welcome addition, and rates among my favorites. The projects are VERY inspiring, and I made up a version of one within the first two weeks of owning it. Clearly written as well. You won't be disappointed!

I have several different books on precious metal clay and it's uses. This one, so far, is my favorite. It inspires the reader with creative ideas and has interesting projects taken from beginning to end. Although I am a beginner in this craft, I found it easy to understand and full of useful tips. I'm still looking for a comprehensive book on findings, though.

This is a nice concise book on Precious Metal Clay. A good addition to anyone's collection of books on technique. I would have enjoyed more information about torch firing. The author gives you one page on technique and a small section on which clays respond to torch firing. I would have liked samples and more about weight and times. Still, I recommend this book for it's clean easy to follow style and great photos demonstrating the steps involved in these projects.

This is a really good book to get you started on the Art of Metal Clay. I'm very impressed with its contents and thank the artist for being so detailed and sharing so much information. Because of this I feel confident to proceed with this craft. Haab includes much text and good photos explaining the process to achieve numerous results. From product info, how to make molds, texturing,kiln time and alternatives,incorporating resins and polymer clay, she covers it all and does a good job. Also keeps in mind the beginning artist and the cost factor offering suggestions to curb the expense while still achieving great results. This is a book worth its weight and a good resource to work from.

I just received this book in the mail today. I paged through it quickly to see what was included. I will go through it more slowly later. What I did see the first time I really liked. I was impressed that firing charts for both brands of metal clay were included.

I also like that technique projects to include glass and polymer clay were demonstrated.

There is a lot of "how-to" instructions in this book. In my opinion, this is a great book. I recommend it to anyone looking for directions on how to use metal clay and to get a lot of project ideas. There are many metal clay techniques demonstrated.

Don't hesitate to buy this book.

This is a great book. Lots of projects with detailed instructions and great color photos. Very inspiring

Ms.Haab Covers her subject very well in that she gives the in formation on both types of metal clay. The temps and specifics to each brand product. The range of techniques translated in to the clay form metalsmithing follow the finished look of the original as close as possible. As a hard art metal person I found not only the descriptions clear and easy to follow but the pictures are bright so you can see the items. Not the artsy type gallery shots in some books. I haven't used any of the projects in it yet, but it is being looked at a lot. I own it.

This book with lots of photos really opens the door to Precious Metal Clay for the aspiring jewelry makers with no metal work experience.