Advanced Metal Clay Silver & Gold Fabrication

Course Synopsis:

Metal Clay Silver and Gold provide previously unimagined potential for creativity to designers and artisans working with precious metals. Without the need for expensive casting machinery or tedious and repetitive manual metal-work techniques, this exciting material allows you to focus on your design goals instead of costly tools. By combining an extremely fine metal powder with trace amounts of water and binders, a clay-like texture is achieved. This can be moulded in myriad ways before undergoing ‘firing’, where the material is heated to a high temperature in order to burn off the water and binders, leaving 99.9% pure silver or 22 karat gold.

To join this program, students must have completed the Certificate in Silver Fabrication using Metal Clay.

Students learn how to incorporate Gold clay into their designs, producing solid, 22karat gold, or combining fine silver and gold together. Sophisticated design and modelling techniques are taught including specialized finishing methods and additional stone setting styles such as bezel-setting and flush setting of multiple gemstones.

Students are exposed to multimedia design options throughout this course and will complete projects that incorporate the use of fused glass to create modern or ethnic-style designs and the incorporation of gold-leaf to accent existing silver jewellery pieces. Upon completion, participants are versed with techniques that they will then be able to turn to commercial applications, and will have the proficiency to produce competition-grade jewellery.

Whether you are forging a career in the jewellery industry or pursuing your creative dreams, we are proud to guide you towards excellence in your professional development and artistic inspiration!