I am SO excited! I finally got to try my hand at PMC as well. PMC is 99.9% silver in clay form. When it is fired, the clay part is gone, and 99.9% silver is left.
My teacher Jennifer was REALLY sweet. We had been trying to get together since forever. But I have lots of limitations on my time because I have 2 little kids, and then I have to wait till hubby has enough time to drive me to wherever I want to go. I do very limited driving because I have absolutely no sense of direction. Not even a bad one :-P. So Jennifer said she will come to my place and teach me! Wow!! People really do such things for others? That was so absolutely AWESOME of her! I was overjoyed, and very very grateful. She didn't even really know me. She had "met" me online at a jewelry forum, and I was always in awe of her work. Her work is not very typical PMC work. The "typical" PMC work is lovely too...I have nothing against it. But what I am saying is, her work is VERY different from most other PMC work I have seen. Anyway...so she didn't really know me. I was practically a stranger to her. But because she understood how much I had wanted this class, and yet could not make it to her house for some reason or another, she said (so easily) that she will bring everything over to my place and teach me. And she reassured me that she understands what it is to have little kids...she has raised 7.
So to me, this pendant symbolizes kindness, compassion, generosity...the qualities that Jennifer displayed with such ease. And it also symbolizes gratitude....what I feel for her. She had no need to do what she did. But she did it anyway.
She is an awesome teacher! I highly recommend her to anyone! I think this is a fabulous piece...and its just the first project I did with her! Do go through her website:
http://wearablebydesign.com/Wearable_by_Design/Welcome.html
You'll see amazingly beautiful pieces. And do contact her if you want to learn to work with PMC.
This pendant is 3/4" in diameter. A 4mm lab created Ruby is set in it. I have antiqued this pendant using silver black, and then polished it, so that its beautiful design can be seen. The back has a pattern too.
4 comments:
Woo-hoo! that still blows me away Swati. I can NOT believe it is your first PMC. It is so stunningly gorgeous. Magic is working though your fingers:)
Thank-you for such a generous write up! That was lovely of you. And your pendant came out awesome. You're going to really excel in this new medium!
Dang! Is there anything that you cannot do Swati????
I just love it! It's gorgeous!
What a wonderful, kind soul Jennifer is...you are lucky.
I would have never believed or guessed this was your first piece. It's perfect and very lovely! You did an awesome job!!!
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