Case Ivory
How to Make Cameo
Cameo is the strategy of carving an item of jewelry. Historically, cameos are made of 3 main carving materials like : glass, shells, or agate. They have dyed robust colored layers, but the commonest colors for two layers are white on black, white on blue, and white on red-brown.
Lately, many artisans consider the polymer clay and porcelain as good alternatives to use in creating cameos. You need sharper tools and more appropriate base materials if you would like to have a nice clean finished product. Polymer clay jewelry is cheap and material costs are kept down.
Prepare at least two colours of polymer clay, usually used are ivory for the cameo part and darker color contrast for the background. You can mix some ivory canes or balls in some darker color clay to have marbleized or shaded background. Just make sure that the clay you wish to is well conditioned. Mostly, molds don’t need a release agent, but if in case sticking occurs, attempt to spray the sticked clay to the mildew with water or dust it with corn starch.
Take a touch of ivory clay and place it by pressing it into the cameo portion of the mildew. You can use the paint brush handle or a chisel headed clay sharper in tamping down the clay. Just work thoroughly and slowly to get all the cameo’s detail. Preferably, leave some convexity to the ivory clay.
You can leave a thin section of the ivory to create a gorgeous translucent filmy look.
Smoothing the edge of the design is the most significant step in the level of cameo making. Smooth edge is vital because when the dark clay base is added to the mould, this may give you the nice sharp edge you wanted between the cameo and the background.
Make a correct thickness for your mould by rolling out a small piece of the background clay. Press the mould softly on top of it to make a shape mark for cutting. Then, cut the background and lay it into the mold. Tamp around the edge and gently work until you reached the center, just apply less pressure when you’re at the cameo part, in this fashion you can avoid ooze to the ivory clay.
If you spot that the clay is not well leveled, just softly put additional background color to finish it off. In leveling the back portion, you can use the paintbrush handle or the clay sharper. And finally, bake it. Learning a way to use jewelry making tools their proper usage will not only help you to learn how to improve craftsmanship but will make your work faster and more effectively. All great craftsmen learned slowly and took many years to become great artists. Knowing your tools will help you become better quicker.
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