Brilliant Color and Handmade Foil
This comprehensive set of tutorials is designed to provide the foundation for your enamel success. It includes basic enamel science, techniques, making color samples, enamel vocabulary, and more.
Class #1: July 15
Class #1 Edited
Office Hours Replay
Office Hours #2 Replay
assignments and confidence steps
Our Online Community
Our Pre-Class Tutorials
My Basic Approach to Enameling (7:55)
Lesson 1: Our Pre-Workshop Tutorial
Lesson 2: My Approach to Teaching
Lesson 3: Transparent Enamel Color
Lesson 4: Layer Architecture: Learn to think in enamel layers (11:05)
Lesson 5: Learning to become a Creative Enamelist
Lesson 6: Some Zen-ameling Thoughts for the Enamel Studio
Lesson 7: Some Baby-Step Goals
Lesson 8: Enamel Glossary
Tools for Making and Embossing Silver Foil
Tools to Make a Copper White Enamel Canvas
Tools for Wirework
Tools for Cutting My Foil
Tools for Painting Enamel Layers
Tools to Make a "Transparent Color Sample"
Tools for Grinding Lump Enamel Colors
Materials List
Lesson 1:Experiential Learning with Enamel, Copper, and Heat
Lesson 2: Basics with Opaque White and Flux on Copper
Create an Opaque White Copper Canvas (Kiln)
Lesson 2: Torch-Fired White Opaque Copper Canvas
Lesson 3: Torch Fired Canvas Variation (begin with the counter enamel)
Lesson 1: Develop Your Enamel Language
Lesson 2: Why make color samples?
Lesson 3: How I make a Transparent Enamel Color Sample
Lesson 4: Color Sample Variations
Lesson 5: Enamel and the Color Wheel