Great Collections: Making Your Own

If you want to build your art collection, you should

do so in an intelligent manner. This is so that

everything you buy for your collection wouldn抰 be

considered as a waste of money. However, collecting

art intelligibly would require you to master two

things. First, is to have good research skills, and

second the skill of collecting.

Starting On The Thought Of Collecting

Generally, as most people do, you抎 probably have the

knowledge of buying art on a piece-per-piece basis,

yet still may not be thinking of plans like making

multiple achievements as time passes by, or simply,

building up a collection.

Although it is possible to find artworks that you like

anywhere you go, and get to choose from an outstanding

diversity of subject matters, mediums, and price

ranges; doing so can still be confusing and

intimidating, especially if you抮e still starting.

Questions such as: "How exactly do you push your way

through and choose which direction to make an

entrance?" "How can you relate one buy to the other?";

"How should you group or organize your art?"; "Are

there ways of presenting it?"; and lastly "How can you

do everything in an excellent manner?"; may come play

in your mind.

However, once you get these queries off you head then

you抣l get to understand the real meaning of

"collection", which is the crucial case of controlled

and purposeful buying.

The Great Collections

Great collectors are extensively respected and usually

as popular as the artworks they collect; such as the

Rockefeller collection, the Chrysler collection, and

the Phillips collection, to name a few. Such

collectors are famous since they demonstrate a great

deal of talent when choosing and organizing their art,

just like the artists themselves are in making the

masterpiece. Similarly, each piece of art in one great

collection orders first-class attention as well as a

first-rate price not just because the piece is good,

but also of the name of the company it bears.

How Great Is 慓reat?

So how exactly do great collectors become great? Well,

experts believe that it is this skill of being able to

categorize specific artworks from the billions of

works existing and assemble them in such a manner

aiming to advance or increase other抯 understanding of

such particular art or of art抯 evolution in general.

For any kind of mature collection, the whole thing, as

a group, becomes greater than the value of the parts.

Thus, the collector becomes accepted to be a respected

authority in the matter and in outstanding cases

continues until he抯 the one that sets the standards,

establishes the trends, and influences the future of

art collecting for all.

This is how meaningful and influencing great art

collections can be. It all starts from a single piece

of art, until the whole collection itself becomes a

separate artwork from its components.

The First Step To Greatness

No matter how you see your collecting, whether

recreational or serious, there are methods that you

could use to get the most out of not only the value

and quality of your art, but also your personal

appreciation, enjoyment, and understanding of your

art.

Thus, you should know that your first step to

greatness is being real to your tastes. If you want to

be a really great collector someday, then

acknowledging and accepting that you like specific

types of art without considering what other people say

or what is popular in the market, would be the right

thing to do.

Remember, in collecting, you抮e making an artwork too

which is composed of different specific pieces. How

you抣l design your artwork is entirely up to you and

not what other people think. So if you抣l be

collecting, be sure to put your heart on it!

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FREE 5 Fire Precious Metal Clay, Art Metal Clay, or Silver Clay for Making Jewelry Components Tips

Precious metal clay makes it easy for you, the untrained amateur jewelry maker, to construct your own beautiful handcrafted beads, charms, and pendants from real precious metals like silver and gold.

Precious metal clay (also known as PMC and ACS or Art Clay Silver) is is as simple to use as potter's clay. It's soft and moldable, and works very much like clay in many ways

Here's how you use this material to make your creations. You shape your pendants or beads from the clay, let them dry, then fire to burn away the binder. This works because fine metal particles are suspended in an organic binder that can be burnt off leaving the metal fused into the form you shape it.

There are many different methods to texture, shape, and mold the precious metal clay into charming and ornate forms, but these are beyond the scope of this article! This article will share different ways to fire your creations once they are formed and dried.

Metal Clay Firing Methods

These are the 3 most commonly used methods for firing precious metal clay. These are using a small torch, a pmc kiln or bead kiln, or something called a "Hot Pot" (or similar gas/metal screen setup).

1. Using a Hand torch

Only torch smaller pieces.. Also, it's best to make sure your piece is pretty even in thickness and relatively simple. Complicated and intricate pieces are more likely to fare best in a kiln.

Here's how to torch fire. Don't forget touse a a heat proof and fire proof surface like a soldering pad or a fire brick with a piece of aluminum sheet underneath. You'll want a well ventilated area. Using your butane torch (I use a Blazer torch), start aiming your flame on the dried precious metal clay piece. At first you'll see a little bit of smoke as the organic binder burns off. Then you just need to get your piece to become a nice pinky orange colour (you can see it quite clearly as long as you aren't working in too bright a light) Move the torch away a little bit and then back again if the glow fades. Just don't go really close with the torch once you have got up to temperature or you will melt the detail on your work.

2. Use a Kiln

A small kiln is ideal for firing metal clay. Even heat and higher temperatures will usually produce stronger pieces, and some types of PMC like bronze clay, original PMC, most copper and gold clay will only fire properly in a kiln.

Any kiln should work, but Precious Metal Clay kilns are available. These are table top kilns. They are very small as kilns go. They run on regular household electricity, but they do need a three prong outlet.

To use, just follow the directions from the kiln manufacturer.

3. Hot Pot or Other Gas Ring/ Metal Screen Setup

A specialized PMC firing product, called the "Hot Pot" that can be found at precious metal clay retailers. The Hot Pot makes it easy to fire pmc without a kiln and is ideal for people who don't like using a torch. The Hot Pot uses a sterno-like fuel to fire your jewelry projects. When the fuel burns out, your jewelry is done. It's a very simple, low tech and affordable option to create your own jewelry.

To use the Hot Pot, you fill the provided terra cotta pot with fuel, then place your dried metal clay project onto the wire grid. Finally, you light the fuel with a long match. Once your fuel burns out, your creation is fired and ready for polishing.

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