{"id":1395,"date":"2009-08-09T15:09:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T23:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2023-02-22T14:36:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T22:36:35","slug":"photos-from-my-workshop-in-rhode-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/09\/photos-from-my-workshop-in-rhode-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos from My Workshop in Rhode Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the way to the class I was teaching in Bristol, Rhode Island, I stopped at Whole Foods Market. A bag of pasta caught my eye. It was pasta in the shape of calamari, which I’d never seen before. That day the class was about to make hollow forms and I thought how strange that I saw it precisely on that morning.<\/p>\n

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It was like bringing a box of candy to class. Almost everybody grabbed some to use as a mold for hollow forms. By the end of the day Jennifer Elliott had managed to finish a whole necklace of silver beads.<\/p>\n

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Other people took some home to make mixed metal hollow forms. This is the one I made:<\/p>\n

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Here are other pieces that were finished by the end of the class. Marjorie Barnes made these earrings and this necklace from copper and silver…<\/p>\n

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…which she was already wearing by the end of the class:<\/p>\n

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Marjorie also made hollow forms using rocks and rigatoni pasta as molds…<\/p>\n

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…as well as a folded hollow form from silver clay:<\/p>\n

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Sana Greene also made a folded hollow form from copper clay:<\/p>\n

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Alicia Buckler-White made a checkerboard pendant and earrings from bronze and copper clay:<\/p>\n

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Linda Busheeb made this pair of earrings combining copper and silver clay (sory for the quality of the photo):<\/p>\n

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Terri Wright made these earrings from copper and silver clay…<\/p>\n

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…and this hollow form from silver clay, with flush-set gemstones.<\/p>\n

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And Trish Connant made these three-panel earrings from all three metal clays:<\/p>\n

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By the end of the third day a lot of pieces were still waiting to be fired. All three kilns had a front door so the number of pieces fired in each kiln was limited. What I have learned in this class is that another variable that affects the sintering is the amount of power that kilns get when they are all working at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the way to the class I was teaching in Bristol, Rhode Island, I stopped at Whole Foods Market. A bag of pasta caught my eye. It was pasta in the shape of calamari, which I’d never seen before. That day the class was about to make hollow forms and I thought how strange that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9270,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/9270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}