This workshop focuses on ways to achieve images and marks in vitreous enamel. Develop new compositions and designs in your work by learning to make a variety of lines and marks in enamel. Using copper as the substrate the demonstrations include sifting, sgraffito, stencils, ceramic oxides, overglaze/china paints, underglaze pencils and other experimental techniques.
The emphasis in this workshop will be on creating exciting surfaces through exploration of both traditional and non-traditional enameling processes.
Some Materials Included.

Work by Jan Smith

Work by Jan Smith

Work by Jan Smith
Prerequisites: - Basic enameling experience preferred.
Materials Included: - -Various enameling supplies including mixing oils and tools to be used during class
Students Must Bring: - -Jewelry size copper pieces: circles, squares whatever shape you want to work on
-Brushes #03, 01 fine #10 flat and additional round and flat brushes
-Flat palette knife
-Flat piece of glass or tile for mixing on
-Round paint tray plastic or glass, best with a lid
-Graphite pencils of varying hardness (2h, 2b,4b etc.) and automatic pencil with leads
-Scribe, pin tool or needle tools (if you have various pointy tools with different thickness bring them)
-Calligrapher's pen with tips (quill pen)
-N95 Dust Mask (available in studio store)
Students May Bring: - -A sample kit is available from Thompson Enamel, www.thompsonenamel.com. Students may want to purchase the sample kit for a wider variety of colors and to have enamels to work with after class.
-Sifters if you have
-Favorite enamels