January 2021
January – Painting and Drawing in Enamels with Mi-Sook Hur (online)
** NEW second session** Painting and Drawing in Enamels Join Mi-Sook Hur as she takes you on a journey into how to draw and paint with enamels! Mi-Sook demystifies how to work with color, creating tones, and palettes to create realistic images of various flowers, bees, and butterflies! No drawing and painting skills are required! If you want to bring drawing into your work and have never done so before, Mi-Sook will guide you. If you have a illustrative background,…
Find out more »February 2021
Pattern Forming and Enameling on Dimensional Surfaces with Nash Quinn (online)
Pattern Forming and Enameling on Dimensional Surfaces In this workshop, join Nash Quinn as we explore the ways a flat sheet of metal can be transformed into a volumetric object using nothing but a jeweler’s saw and a carefully-designed template. No soldering! Once formed, these vessels can be enameled using low-tech methods for adhering enamel to vertical surfaces. Finally, we will cover strategies for enhancing the finished enameled vessel, including basic silver fabrication and cold connection methods. This versatile technique…
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Granular Spray, Sgraffito, and Watercolor Enamel with Alisa Looney (online)
Granular Spray, Sgraffito & Watercolor Enamel with Alisa Looney (online) Expand your artistic tool kit by learning to sgraffito with ease in liquid enamel, and no more chipping! We will work on pre-enameled steel, adding layers of glass with granular spray, sgraffito and watercolor techniques to create colorful, custom surface treatments. Join Alisa Looney as she shows us how to use spray application to achieve a buttery smooth surface and create extremely detailed sgraffito designs. Alisa will…
Find out more »September 2021
Separation Oil in Enamels with Gabrielle Castonguay (online)
Join world-renowned enamelist Gabrielle Castonguay for a two-day LIVE online intensive workshop on the use of separation oils with enamels. Separation oil provokes a chemical reaction on the surface of enamel by modifying its viscosity, forcing expansion of the surface and allowing the underneath enameled layers to show. It is a powerful, fun and unique effect that helps enhance contrasts between transparents, opaques, and textures. When separation oil is applied accordingly to the requirements of…
Find out more »January 2022
Opalescent Grisaille with Mer Almagro (online)
Join enamellist Mer Almagro as she teaches her specialty- Opalescent Grisaille! In this LIVE interactive online workshop, Mer will walk you through the intricacies and steps of how to create beautiful pieces in the distinctive grisaille style. Mer will be your guide as you explore a vitreous enamel technique with rich history, grisaille, in its 20th century incarnation developed by Andreu Vilasís. We will utilize beautiful, semi-translucent opalescent…
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