Sample Video: Metal Clay Earrings by Instructor and Jeweler, Janet Alexander

This is a sample video showing part of the fifty-minute video I created.
The full video teaches the beginner metal clay artist how to make the pictured earrings.
It teaches:
* Applying a texture to precious metal clay
* Rolling the metal clay into an even thickness
* Attaching two layers together
* Embedding earring wire into metal clay
* Working with dry metal clay, what you can do with it
* Firing (sintering) precious metal clay
* Bringing the metal to a high shine by hand
* Making repairs to sintered precious metal clay
* Adding color using alcohol inks on sintered precious metal clay
* Applying liver of sulfur to blacken sintered precious metal clay
It is not the full version. The full version can be bought at www.janetalexander.net\\
Janet is an accomplished metal artist with her work published in several books and magazines including on the cover of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist; The Gemmys 2015, Contemporary Metal Clay Rings. Her creations can be found in Metal Clay in Color, American Craft Magazine, Metal Clay Artist Magazine, Contemporary Metal Clay Rings, Metal Clay 101 for Beaders, and in New Directions: Powder Metallurgy in a Sheet Metal World.
For the past several years she has taught adults metalsmithing at conventions and gem shows. As a writer she co-authored, Metal Clay in Color, has written many tutorials for books and magazines.