For beginner through intermediate learners, this course covers all phases of working with fine silver clay, from texturing, joining and sculpting, through professional finishing techniques and maximizing the life of your clay. Lessons are shared through six different projects. Learn to make highly finished jewelry for yourself, as gifts or for a business.

This course builds on a basic silver clay skillset to give you a foundational understanding of how to make settings for many different sizes and shapes of stones, that need to be set after your silver clay is fired.

Learn how to make the bail styles pictured, including which are harder and easier to accomplish, and how to attach them seamlessly and elegantly. Some bail styles require jump rings for proper hanging on a chain, so there is also a lesson on how to solder closed a jump ring. These lessons are extracted from the longer course Setting Stones in Silver Clay.