Book Review: Metal Clay and Mixed Media Jewelry
January 30, 2008 by Cyndi Lavin
Filed under Beading, Book & Magazine Reviews, Metal Clay, Mixed Media, Wearable Art
Metal Clay and Mixed Media Jewelry
About a week ago, I mentioned Tammy Powley’s book, Making Designer Mixed Media and Memory Jewelry as a good basic introduction to adding non-traditional materials to your jewelry making. One of my own projects is in that book, so in the interest of not being overly biased, I thought I should look at some other mixed media jewelry books as well 
One of the best that I’ve come across recently is Sherri Haab’s Metal Clay and Mixed Media Jewelry. As the name implies, the book focuses on metal clay as the primary medium, and proceeds to explore all the different magical materials that you can use with it, like resin, polymer clay, glass, CONCRETE!!, fibers, and more. Sherri has some wonderful projects in this book, and shows the work of many talented metal clay artists, some of whom have helped to push the production of many new forms of metal clay through their innovative experimentation.
This is not a beginner’s book, but it is also not impossible for a slightly-more-than-beginner to follow many of these projects. I think that if you’ve never worked with metal clay before, you’re going to want to go through a much more complete primer on that first. Perhaps the one that Sherri Haab also wrote, called The Art of Metal Clay.
