Discuss the current issue of Art Jewelry

Re: Enamel

cool_vartan — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:26:30 GMT

Great posts! I knew nothing about what is enamel.

Re: Enamel

yogie03 — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:02:28 GMT

I agree. It is a lot of work, however, I am intrigued and plan on trying it.

I think I'm going to try the liquid acrylic enamels with my beehive kiln. I am new to this so if anyone has suggestions, please feel free to share.

I know I would need to clean the copper first. Would I need to still use kylfire?

Thanks in advance:-)

Re: Enamel

Bentiron — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:56:59 GMT

It is the March issue and the article is on adding dichro paper to your enamel. Still a lot of work to make little pendent but they look so nice.

Re: Enamel

tinksthings — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:42:11 GMT

Enamel has opened a whole new world for me, I experienced such trepidation when ordering my kiln but now I can't image my work without some color. I have a lot of admiration for all enamellist, especially Susan Knopp, Marianne Hunter & Karen Cohen and many, many others. I would love to have a class in cloisonné or painting with enamels, yummy!

Bentiron, I haven't seen this article yet, is this in the May issue?

Re: Enamel

rebaccawood911 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:50:13 GMT

Yeah doing enamel work is very very tough one but afrter finishin one work it looks very beautiful,,,,

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Enamel

Bentiron — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:12:46 GMT

After reading through the article on enamel work, twice, I have a whole new appreciation for the art of enameling. It ain't that easy! All that scrubbing, fluxing, firing, scrubbing, stoning, applying the enamel powder it is a time consuming labour intensive process just to get a small pendent. Not a quick nor easy process. You that do enameling have my admiration.