Publications where you can see Barbara's work:
Metal Clay Beads, Barbara Becker Simon, Lark Books, 2009
Though my book is now out of print, it's still available from sellers like Amazon. It continues to provide quality, relevant information for all skill levels of metal clay enthusiasts. Metal clay is particularly wonderful for creating hollow forms and despite the content being devoted to bead forms, a majority of the information applies to almost anything one wants to do with metal clay.
Bibliography:
Metal Clay Synergy, Gordon Uyehara, 2012
Creating Glass Beads, Jeri Warhaftig, 2011
Bronze Metal Clay, Yvonne Padilla, 2010
Pure Silver Metal Clay Beads, Linda Kaye-Moses, 2009
Zilver Klei, Noortje Meigerink, 2008 (published in The Netherlands)
Setting Stones In Metal Clay, Jeanette Landenwitch, 2008
Glass Bead Workshop, Jeri Warhaftig, 2008
PMC Decade, Tim McCreight, 2007
Metal Clay Jewelry, Louise Duhamel, 2006
Crafts Report, April 2006
The Art & Craft of Making Jewelry, by Joanna Gollberg, Lark Books, 2006
Studio PMC, Fall 2005, Vol. 3
1000 Glass Beads, Lark Books, 2004
Beads of Glass, Cindy Jenkins, 2003
The Art of Metal Clay Jewelry, Sherri Haab, 2003
Creative Metal Clay Jewelry, CeCe Wire, 2003
More Than You Ever Want to Know About Glass Beadmaking, James Kervin, 2003
Formed of Fire, Bandhu Scott Dunham, 2002
Contemporary Lamporking, Bandhu Scott Dunham, 2002
Beadwork Magazine,"Focus on Glass," August/September, 2001
Wire In Design, Barbara McGuire, 2001
Lapidary Journal, Sternberg, Ilene, "Quick on Her Feet", August, 2000
Lapidary Journal, Simon, Barbara Becker, "Hollow -Form Precious Metal Clay Bead, August, 2000
Lapidary Journal, Hazel Wheaton, "Beading By Accident", December 1998
Lapidary Journal, Nina Cooper, "The Alchemy of Precious Metal Clay," April, 1998
Studio PMC, "Gallery," Spring, 1998, Vol.1 No.2,
Contemporary Jewelry, Second Edition, Morton, Philip, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, NY, NY, 1976 (Four Photographs of Work Represented)
Webinars:
On Craftcast: www.craftcast.com
Learn to Make Texture Plates
.Learn as award-winning jeweler and author Barbara Becker Simon teaches you the how-to secrets behind making customized texture ...
Learn to Make Photopolymer Plates
Ms. Simon shows you close-up all the tips and tricks you need to know to get ...
Six steps to perfect lampworked hollow beads with a bonus silver core
Watch as award winning jewelry artist, Ms. Barbara Becker Simon, demonstrates the art of lampworked beads. Barbara will guide ...
Learn to Make this Spectacular Ring in Metal Clay
Ms. Simon has created a spectacular new metal clay ring she is calling, The UFO ...
Creating a BIG Toggle in Metal Clay
Join Barbara Becker Simon, metal clay artist extraordinaire and learn what you need to know ...
Learn to Carve a Bronze Clay Bangle
The dynamic Ms. Barbara Becker Simon is back once again to take you on a creative journey, teaching ...
Enamel and Metal Clay Bead Mash-Up
Enamel and Metal Clay Bead Mash-Up Learn to make a set of graduated beads using an enamel and metal clay hybrid
The Macaroni Metal Clay Pendant
Join master craftswoman Barbara Becker Simon, and learn how to make this handsome three dimensional metal clay ...
Learn to Make a Graduated Big D Necklace
Learn to Make a Graduated Big D Necklace ...
Barbara Becker Simon Hollow Flameworked Beads Webinar DVD Movie
available from Glass Art Magazine's Glass Expert Webinars
Hollow beads are distinctive in shape, lightweight and part of every skilled lampworker's repertoire. Though tricky to master, in this Webinar Barbara will approach this process in gradual steps so the technique can be more easily learned and several options for making and altering hollows will be demonstrated, including making a fine silver core with metal clay.
Techniques covered include:
Metal Clay Beads, Barbara Becker Simon, Lark Books, 2009
Though my book is now out of print, it's still available from sellers like Amazon. It continues to provide quality, relevant information for all skill levels of metal clay enthusiasts. Metal clay is particularly wonderful for creating hollow forms and despite the content being devoted to bead forms, a majority of the information applies to almost anything one wants to do with metal clay.
Bibliography:
Metal Clay Synergy, Gordon Uyehara, 2012
Creating Glass Beads, Jeri Warhaftig, 2011
Bronze Metal Clay, Yvonne Padilla, 2010
Pure Silver Metal Clay Beads, Linda Kaye-Moses, 2009
Zilver Klei, Noortje Meigerink, 2008 (published in The Netherlands)
Setting Stones In Metal Clay, Jeanette Landenwitch, 2008
Glass Bead Workshop, Jeri Warhaftig, 2008
PMC Decade, Tim McCreight, 2007
Metal Clay Jewelry, Louise Duhamel, 2006
Crafts Report, April 2006
The Art & Craft of Making Jewelry, by Joanna Gollberg, Lark Books, 2006
Studio PMC, Fall 2005, Vol. 3
1000 Glass Beads, Lark Books, 2004
Beads of Glass, Cindy Jenkins, 2003
The Art of Metal Clay Jewelry, Sherri Haab, 2003
Creative Metal Clay Jewelry, CeCe Wire, 2003
More Than You Ever Want to Know About Glass Beadmaking, James Kervin, 2003
Formed of Fire, Bandhu Scott Dunham, 2002
Contemporary Lamporking, Bandhu Scott Dunham, 2002
Beadwork Magazine,"Focus on Glass," August/September, 2001
Wire In Design, Barbara McGuire, 2001
Lapidary Journal, Sternberg, Ilene, "Quick on Her Feet", August, 2000
Lapidary Journal, Simon, Barbara Becker, "Hollow -Form Precious Metal Clay Bead, August, 2000
Lapidary Journal, Hazel Wheaton, "Beading By Accident", December 1998
Lapidary Journal, Nina Cooper, "The Alchemy of Precious Metal Clay," April, 1998
Studio PMC, "Gallery," Spring, 1998, Vol.1 No.2,
Contemporary Jewelry, Second Edition, Morton, Philip, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, NY, NY, 1976 (Four Photographs of Work Represented)
Webinars:
On Craftcast: www.craftcast.com
Learn to Make Texture Plates
.Learn as award-winning jeweler and author Barbara Becker Simon teaches you the how-to secrets behind making customized texture ...
Learn to Make Photopolymer Plates
Ms. Simon shows you close-up all the tips and tricks you need to know to get ...
Six steps to perfect lampworked hollow beads with a bonus silver core
Watch as award winning jewelry artist, Ms. Barbara Becker Simon, demonstrates the art of lampworked beads. Barbara will guide ...
Learn to Make this Spectacular Ring in Metal Clay
Ms. Simon has created a spectacular new metal clay ring she is calling, The UFO ...
Creating a BIG Toggle in Metal Clay
Join Barbara Becker Simon, metal clay artist extraordinaire and learn what you need to know ...
Learn to Carve a Bronze Clay Bangle
The dynamic Ms. Barbara Becker Simon is back once again to take you on a creative journey, teaching ...
Enamel and Metal Clay Bead Mash-Up
Enamel and Metal Clay Bead Mash-Up Learn to make a set of graduated beads using an enamel and metal clay hybrid
The Macaroni Metal Clay Pendant
Join master craftswoman Barbara Becker Simon, and learn how to make this handsome three dimensional metal clay ...
Learn to Make a Graduated Big D Necklace
Learn to Make a Graduated Big D Necklace ...
Barbara Becker Simon Hollow Flameworked Beads Webinar DVD Movie
available from Glass Art Magazine's Glass Expert Webinars
Hollow beads are distinctive in shape, lightweight and part of every skilled lampworker's repertoire. Though tricky to master, in this Webinar Barbara will approach this process in gradual steps so the technique can be more easily learned and several options for making and altering hollows will be demonstrated, including making a fine silver core with metal clay.
Techniques covered include:
- proper application of glass to the mandrel
- how to keep the walls consistent in thickness
- judging the heat necessary to maintain the form and not melt it
- how to prevent collapse and what to do if it happens
- shaping, altering form, decoration and how to apply glass to a silver core.
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