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Technical Skills and Artistic Skills

Enameling can be more than the skill of melting glass onto metal and making "pretty colors".
Learning to enamel is similar to learning a new language;
With enough PRACTICE, we become FLUENT and then can "speak in enamel".

The challenge: How can I improve my enamel skills to become "good enough"
when combined with my artistic skills to turn an idea into a meaningful enamel image?

About

Hi, I'm Ricky Frank.
Let's explore enameling and discover YOUR way to make YOUR enamel artwork.

I created The Enamel Channel to share my passion for enameling and the many challenges of learning to make meaningful enamel artwork.

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Enameling Skills

What do you want to learn or improve? Here are the main skill sets that will help bring your enameling to a new level:

  • Firing Skills: Most enameling steps require you to "fire" your enamel. Master the heat to control your results.
  • Canvas Skills: Make a copper or fine silver "blank" shape. Play with sizes & shapes.
  • Wire Skills: Use cloisonne´ wire to design your "cells". Bend and combine your wires.
  • Color Layer Skills: Create "panes of glass" within your wire cells. Discover and master the different ways that you can combine your enamel colors.
  • Foil Skills: Silver & gold foil create layers of "reflected light" that shine the light through your transparent or opalescent colors.

Artistic Skills

How can you USE your enamel skills to "make something that you like"?

  • Language Skills: Build your own personal enamel vocabulary.
  • Creative Skills: Develop and use your imagination to create unique enamel imagery.
  • Design Skills: Make your enamel pictures more interesting, exciting, intentional, and focused.
  • Story Skills: Share a part of yourself; your unique point of view to make your enamels more meaningful.

Mindset Skills

Change your questions and change your artwork.

Questions are better than Answers

Questions are better than Answers

Most of us are taught from an early age to find the "right answers" so that we can do it the "right way". When you change your question, you create space to discover more possible answers.

Coach Yourself to Improve

Coach Yourself to Improve

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More is better than Good!

More is better than Good!

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Frequently Asked Questions

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