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Courtney Gray: Welcome to Creative Side Jewelry Academy of Austin, online at creativeside.org.
I'm Courtney Gray. I started my school here, Creative Side Jewelry Academy, four years
ago. I'm here in Austin, and I'm going to tell you about jewelry making today.
Jewelry Making Using Textured Metal
Today I'm going to tell you about textured metal and how you can incorporate that into
your work. There's a number of ways to get texture on your metal, you can use hammers,
you can use a rolling mill with a material that's going to texture that metal. You can
actually take fabrics, and press that into your metal, and make it mimic that fabric
pattern. Once you add all those elements in, you want to think about maybe layering those
textures. A good rule of thumb is three different textures overlapping each other. Here's some
examples. This has a very light texture on it, a brass, and then a heavier hammer texture
around the edges. Play with these different textures and see what kind of look that you
like. Precious metal clay lends itself more to texture as well. You can actually use stamping
tools to create texture in thin metal and in precious metal clay. Precious metal clay,
there's a ton of different ways to get texture on your piece and really quick, fun ways as
well. Hammering is one of the oldest techniques of getting texture, and just using different
pressures with the hammer, different types of hammer heads. So, experiment with this.
You can actually take texture and pull it into your pieces and creative really beautiful
looks in your work.