I was playing with a metal clay lavender leaf that I made long ago and thought that it would be nice to make a fibula with it.
After soldering the pin stem, I decided I wanted to enamel the leaf…Bad call as it turned out! I hadn’t even used hard or IT solder to do the job. Everything fell apart while enameling. I tried to resolver and re-anamel the leaf, the enamel was burnt and I couldn’t remove it. Finally the metal clay leaf cracked too and everything was ruined.
Lesson learned the hard way. Though I love improvising, there are certain cases when careful planning is required.
I started again, no-enameling this time and I used a sage metal clay leaf instead of the lavender that I cracked. Here’s how the final piece turned out:
Sage leaf fibula, fine silver, sterling silver.
I’m quite pleased with the fluidity of the lines. I debated whether I should introduce some color but in the end I decided to keep it only silver. Now I certainly want to make more pins and experiment further with this form.
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