In one in all my many exciting previous artistic lives, I used to be a raku artist. I created pottery and fired it in an enormous raku kiln in my backyard. My fascination with hearth, the weather and the drastically varying glaze “surprises” at all times left me wanting more, itching to do it again. I used to be completely and utterly hooked on the inconsistent outcomes-some days spectacular and others . . . well, let’s just say my mother has numerous my fatally flawed surprises adorning her shelves.
When my pursuits turned to smaller scale metallic jewelry and PMC, I ran to the native Torches-R-Us shop and plunked down some moola on my first micro torch. Inside, I was leaping for joy, chanting “should play with fire, fireplace, hearth, fire.” Properly, I’ll simply forgo the ugly details and skip to the tip of the story: Raku firing is nothing like micro torches, and I don’t look good without eyebrows. . . . Yup, I singed BOTH eyebrows and haven’t regarded the identical since. I discovered some nice safety tips the onerous means!
Should you, too, had EFT (Early Fire Trauma) or are just curious about utilizing a torch for jewellery, sit in on my hearth chat (barely totally different from a hearth chat) with the stunning Denise Peck, editor of Step by Step Wire Jewelry and contributor to Jewellery Making Each day (my newest favorite weblog, next to Beading Every day, of course!).
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