What will you learn?
Enamel Fundamentals

Enamel Skills, Science,
Design, Creativity, and more...

You explore the many different types of enameling questions.

Create your own "Personal Tutorials"
Design your assignments.

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Copy It

Watch the demonstration and try to duplicate what you see. This works great for learning a new skill.

Copy It
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Play

Ask "What if...?" and try it. Discover what is possible and what you like/dislike.

Play
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Experiment

Try to understand "cause & effect". Learn about the variables and learn to control your results.

Experiment
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Design

Combine your different design elements to create focus, interest, and excitement.

Design
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Translate

Change your visual language into a different media. Look at the design elements and imagine them as enamel elements.

Translate
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Connect

Tell your story!. Explore different ways to express your WHY.

Connect
What do "Baby Steps" look like?
Practice the "Baby-Step" Skills
Wires, Enamel, & Foils

IMPROVE YOUR CLOISONNE´ WIRE BENDING SKILLS

The "Drawing with Cloisonne´Wires " classes breaks down this basic skill set into 82 short video lessons. Each one explores different types of questions:
How to bend, apply, & fire your wires
Design Elements: shapes, lines, & patterns
Design Principles: combining wires
Alternative types of wires

LEARN RICKY'S SIX
ENAMEL COLOR LAYERS

The "Creative Color" classes break down all of the enamel layer techniques that I use in all of my artwork. Explore how I create enamel...

Edges
Gradations
Foil layers
Sculptural layers
Custom colors
Opalescent White layers

CREATE REFLECTIVE LIGHT LAYERS WITH SILVER FOIL

The "Introduction to Foil Layers of Light" class explores the science and theory of transparent light and provides tips and tricks to help your enamel layers "glow".

Cut, Apply, & Fire your foil
Transparent enamel color over foil
Designing with foil
Create a "foil gradation"

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Understand & Apply Enamel Science

Embrace your Inner Scientist!


There are many Enamel Myths.
Books, video, teachers, and friends may tell you that "you have to do ..."

Principles are like Laws of Nature: when you do X, you get Y. You cannot break Principles!
Rules are Laws of Experience: this worked for me, it should work for you too. You can break the Rules!

Would you like to be able to know the difference between Myth & Reality?
When you have Enamel Confidence, you break the Rules and use the Principles.

Learn to design experiments to answer your questions.

This helps you easily answer questions like these...

  • Do I need to clean my metal? Why or Why not?
  • How thick can I make my enamel layers?
  • Why did the bottom enamel layer bubble up through the top layer?
  • How long should I fire this piece? At what temperature?
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You are always learning. You are always teaching yourself.
Learn to Think in Enamel
You will LEARN to...
  • Use & control simple enameling skills
  • Understand & apply enamel science
  • Become comfortable more questions
  • Create plans to help you answer your questions
  • Make decisions without second-guessing
  • Make MORE samples & sketches
  • Doing "one small thing" to start
You will BECOME...
  • Confident with your enamel skills
  • An enamel scientist who solves problems
  • Able to move beyond your first question or idea
  • A Teacher who can plan & achieve goals
  • A fearless enamel explorer
  • Fluent with your enamel design language
  • Willing to confront the fears & doubts
Your questions have helped me view my desire to play with enamels in ways I hadn’t considered before. It has expanded my ideas and changed how I view the interplay of color, metal, texture and detail.
My design ideas are evolving.
Melissa B
Learn the skills to make my work,
Build the CONFIDENCE to make your own.


I do not teach "projects".
I will not teach you how to make a Ricky Frank enamel.

I WILL help you find a way to make something that expresses a part of YOU!

Develop the ability to discover what you want to make,
develop the skills to make it, and
become CONFIDENT enough to do it!

Your dreams can become a reality

Build and become Fluent in your Enamel Design Language!


Transform your...

MATERIALS.
IDEAS.
SELF.

Into the artist of your dreams.

Vision and Voice
Embrace your Vision and turn it into an enamel.

Students are sometimes afraid that they don't have anything important to say.

You are unique.
You have a personal point of view.
Embrace what you love.
Make it so that YOU love it.