What a quandry! I'm ready to start playing with this stuff, and I can't decide which would be best to use. A question that I'm sure someone here can answer is, which gives you less shrinkage?
I love the paper you can get from Art Clay. I see lots of potential there, for sure!
I want to be able to use it with glass. Which would be best for that? I won't ONLY be using it with glass, but that's one thing I definitely want to try.
It's soooooooooooo confusing!
Tink
I haven't used Art Clay, but I think the 2 are very comparable from what I have heard. Different manufacturers and distributors.
As far as PMC goes you want to use PMC3 with glass - it comes in clay, paste (slip), and syringe form.
PMC also has a sheet or paper form, but it's PMC +.
PMC has less shrinkage. It also tends to have more technical advances, as one might expect from Mitsushiba.
As for as I know, the only silver clay available that fires at a low enough temp to use with glass is PMC3 . Plus won't work, nor can it be torch fired as PMC+ (Plus) can be.
With the polymers in it, it does have to be fired before you use it with glass, or it will dirty it up.
However I have never used Art Clay.
Tina
Art Clay has the 650 clay for glass now, it fires at 1200 degrees. Most of the books I see are for PMC. PMC seems to know their shrinkage rates better and have little template/sizers to help you. The two products are fairly similar in make up and how they are used.
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