Fine Silver Art Clay Leaf
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$165.00
$165.00
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This awesome leaf pendant was made entirely by hand.
Using Precious Metal Silver Art Clay paste, I was able to fashion this silver pendant as a real life replica of a living plant-leaf!!- So the textures you see on the front of the pendant are from the many small veins that run through many plant leaves. The nature of Art Clay paste requires a lengthy process of building up thin layers of metal clay paste on top of a mold- or in this case, a leaf- letting each subsequent layer dry before adding another one on top. Because this pendant is fairly sizable- (approximately 2.5"-3" from the top of the bail to the bottom point)- the number of layers of silver paste used, makes the fine silver pendant more substantial in size and weight. Although I have not weighed the piece itself, leave it to say that it can get a bit heavy after wearing it all day...!
Using Precious Metal Silver Art Clay paste, I was able to fashion this silver pendant as a real life replica of a living plant-leaf!!- So the textures you see on the front of the pendant are from the many small veins that run through many plant leaves. The nature of Art Clay paste requires a lengthy process of building up thin layers of metal clay paste on top of a mold- or in this case, a leaf- letting each subsequent layer dry before adding another one on top. Because this pendant is fairly sizable- (approximately 2.5"-3" from the top of the bail to the bottom point)- the number of layers of silver paste used, makes the fine silver pendant more substantial in size and weight. Although I have not weighed the piece itself, leave it to say that it can get a bit heavy after wearing it all day...!
To keep it simple and keep the focus on the pendant itself, I chose to put it on a basic sterling silver snake chain (18" long chain), of a substantial enough gauge size, to be able to stand up to the weight of the fine silver pendant- Fine Silver being a higher grade of silver than sterling, as its percentage of silver is around 99.7- 99.8 % pure silver vs. sterling's 92.5% composition.
