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Rings & Things expands line of Art Clay™ Silver
Every cloud has a silver lining, and so can your glass! While many glass artists love to work metal into their pieces, the mechanics of bezels, screws, nuts, bolts, glue and soldering can make the creative process feel more like an engineering mission. Art Clay Silver removes the technicalities and leaves the technique, giving you a more design-creative process.
Rings & Things is pleased to announce that its ever-expanding line of ACS products now includes more varieties of low-fire 650, new tools and 28 new texture plates. Art Clay Silver is a powdered fine silver mixed with nontoxic binders and water. When kiln or torch fired, the binders burn away to leave pure, 99.9% silver. This product is revolutionary for glass artists because it provides a direct working material, allowing you to fire metal and glass simultaneously.
Rings & Things is not only a great Art Clay Silver source — it’s also a resource. Resident expert Kurt Madison is a certified ACS master instructor. This silver-tongued artist answers all your ACS questions in his user-friendly online forum, which can be accessed at www.rings-things.com. He describes ACS as "extremely easy to improvise," providing "a broad way of working."
"ACS is more expressive, more continuous," he says. "It lets you go from metal into glass and glass into metal"
Kurt’s skill and enthusiasm for Art Clay Silver are evident in his work, such as this stunning necklace, created in collaboration with Chris Chorvat. It’s composed of borosilicate glass and ACS 650 overlay paste, which Kurt says is especially compatible with glass.
"The success rates are really high… that’s something I find exciting about it," he says. Kurt also stresses the art of experimentation, or as he calls it, "the experimentiverse." ACS offers countless possibilities, giving each artist the opportunity to take it in a new direction.
Call 1 (800) 366-2156 or visit www.rings-things.com for our entire ACS line.
