Colour Your Silver: how to give your silver jewellery an antiqued effect
Joanne Tinley, Jewellery Designer, Tutor and Writer
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1. Colour Your Silver: how to give your silver jewellery an antiqued effect
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2. Colour Your Silver: equipment
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3. Colour Your Silver: creating the patina
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4. Colour Your Silver: finishing the effect
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5. Colour Your Silver: the finished earrings
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6. Colour Your Silver: your project
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7. Colour Your Silver: what if you don't like the antiqued effect?
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About This Class
I made two pairs of earrings in the Petal Earrings class and at the end of the video I showed one pair of the earrings with a darker antiqued patina or surface treatment/colour. This effect is sometimes called 'oxidised' as it can mimic the colour that silver goes when it is tarnished or oxidised. I don't use it on all of my jewellery designs but it can be a lovely way of highlighting a beautiful texture. I also like to use it sometimes on jewellery with lighter stones or beads, especially pink stones - I'm not a pink with bright polished silver type of girl!
This new class teaches you how to easily give your silver jewellery this effect quickly and easily and with the minimum of equipment.
Of course, if you need to make some jewellery first to be able to give it a patina then enrol on one of my other jewellery making classes:
Silver Stacking Rings: Making Beautiful Rings From Silver Wire
Silver Stacking Rings 2: Dress Up Your Rings
Bird on a Branch - Sawing a Simple Silver Pendant
Create Beautiful Jewelry From Scrap Silver - Petal Earrings
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Meet Your Teacher
I have been making jewellery for as long as I can remember, and have been passing these wonderful (and addctive!) skills on through my classes for nearly 20 years. I am self-taught and like many people I started with wire and beads. Learning how to solder, however, opened up a whole new world of jewellery making! There is something so magical about watching solder flow through a seam, joining two pieces of metal together smoothly.
My studio is in Southampton, on the South Coast of the UK. I design and make jewellery for galleries across the UK, teach regular and popular jewellery design workshops, and also offer private tuition. My jewellery design projects have been published in both UK and US magazines and books.
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Hands-on Class Project
Your project for this class is to follow the instructions to add an antiqued patina to a piece of jewellery! Remember that this effect will work on fine silver, sterling silver and copper.
Do make sure that your jewellery is clean before you put it into the patina solution - this seems to be especially important for pieces made from silver clay where finger grease can protect the surface from the solution and so stop the process from working.
If you don't like the effect then you can remove it by either heating your jewellery gently with a small blow torch and then popping it into the safety pickle, or by cleaning your silver with bicarbonate of silver (baking soda) as I show in this video class: Cleaning Your Silver the Eco-Friendly Way.
And lastly - don't clean silver with an antiqued effect with silver dips or using the bicarbonate of soda unless you want to remove the colour!
Remember to upload a photo or two of the finished results!
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