Enameling

In the late 20s, a small enamel tray, made in China, introduced us to the word cloisonne. The material looked...

Through the years, a variety of enameling techniques has been developed. Some involve how the metal is prepared and some...

Enameling involves the firing and melting of suitable glasses onto and into metals for decorative effects. It is done at...

This article is a part of a series offering enameling tips and what is most occurring that enamelists encounter. This...

Overglaze enamels, as their name implies, are made to be applied over other enamels. They act much like paints or...

This article is a part of a series offering enameling tips and what is most occurring that enamelists encounter. This...

The most commonly used metals for enameling are pure copper and fine silver. The fine silver is primarily used for...

The question about the differences between lead bearing and lead free enamel is the same as the questions about the...

Enamel comes in a number of forms: lump, string, liquid, and powder, as well as in the optical qualities of...

For more than twenty years, I have been using overglazes as a direct painting technique. My canvas usually is a...

Applying liquid gold, palladium and/or silver in the final firing of enamel pieces is something that can frequently raise the...

There are a number of methods for plique a jour, a filigree technique that allows light to shine through the...

It is a rare and most welcome event when a technical innovation is accompanied by an esthetic revelation. This is...

This article is a part of a series offering enameling tips and what is most occurring that enamelists encounter. This...

The primary reason designer Amy Roper Lyons of Summit, New Jersey, began working in enamels is fairly black and white:...

Active as an enamelist since 1957, Annemarie Davidson has made functional objects - from plates and boxes to ashtrays, trivets,...

The fascinating depth and quality of the intesive colors that are created by melting stained glass on a metal surface...

Photo 1: Apply a coat of enamel on a piece of domed copper and fire. Photo 2. A sheet of...

I have been making my cloisonne beads since 1996 in a variety of methods with fine silver and wires of...

On the difficulties with handling enamel: Enamel is one of the most durable methods of confining colors to a background....

This article Amy Roper Lyons offers two things: a Plique-a-Jour pictorial and three safety tips when handling or working with...

Each medium has its own vocabulary and so it is with enamels and enameling. The glass glaze material that is...

How to Make a Frame for Enamel Pieces The instruction below is addressed to people who have little experience in...

When enamelist Bill Helwig celebrated the half-century mark in July of 1988, his wife Lenore Davis, asked the celebrants to...

We are often drawn to the naïve sensibility of self-taught artists in any medium. The fresh, unassuming quality of their...

One of the many workshops presented at the 10th Biennial Enamelist Society Conference was The Fauré Studio Enamel Techniques, instructed...

The Northern California Enameling Guild ("NCEG") and the ACCI Gallery recently sponsored an excellent show of works from around the...

In the beginning, there was glass. Glass was created or formed along with our planet Earth. Glass was here —...

In the gay nineties, one hundred years ago and more now, the newly rich were off to see the world....

When I asked him who Kenneth Bates is, he laughed and replied "a simple dirt farmer from New England." However,...

Possibly of another time and almost certainly of another place, Hal or Harold Hasselschwert enamels entice the imagination with the...

English enamels, in the genre also widely classed as Battersea work [after the initial place of their manufacture] were profusely...

Precious Metal Clay, being fine silver and high karat gold, is the perfect material to accept enamel. It is possible...

February 21 - 22, 2004 was another high point in our enameling career. Irmgard and I travelled to the John...

Application of Enamel En Plein In my 30 years of enameling and creating objects of art and jewelry, I have...

Most people in our discipline use the word Enamel to identify both the glass which is fused to metal, and...

More than 3000 years ago, someone spread powdered glass onto metal, probably gold, and subjected it to sufficient heat to...

Background My formal education includes a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering and a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering. My interest...

The English enameller, Alan Mudd, born in Lancashire, began his studies in the fine arts, and served an indentured apprenticeship...

Couleurs de Crateres is an enameled lava workshop, established by Mrs. Nathalie Fourniat in 2001 in the Auvergne region of...

For those of you who have not worked with Precious Metal Clay, you'll find there are certain terms unique to...

When one looks at a world map to find New Zealand, it's easily overlooked due to its location and size....

Enamel A Current Perspective Enameling, like other mediums in the vast world of art, has seen ebbs and tides of...

English enamels made during the period 1750 to 1840 were chiefly ornamented with transfer printed images and mottos. While the...

Unbeknownst to most enamelists, there is a treasure of turn of the century enamels at the Delaware Art Museum. I...

Industrial liquid enamel is a versatile material. It can be used as a base coat, directly on the metal, or...

Applicator for Crumbs (Enamel Lumps) If you have worked with small lumps or tiny crumbs of enamel or glass to...

Reviving the virtually dead enameling technique plique-à-jour, which means "the light of day as seen through a membrane," has been...

Hungarian Enamel Symposiums The International Enamel Studio, open throughout the year, provides the possibility of experimenting and studying for all...

My affair with precious metals began while working with my father a talented jeweler who worked with spring movement. He...

While Limoges, France was celebrating its 200th anniversary as the city of the "Arts of Fire" this year, July and...

Jewelry artist Leila Tai is renowned for her extraordinary one-of-a-kind pieces celebrating perfection in nature and for her masterful use...

Vessel and vesselmaking come the closet to establishing a universal language form; encompassing ceramic pots, holloware, fiber baskets, glass and...

Minerals such as silica, soda ash, potassium nitrate, borax, calcium carbonate, etc. are weighed according to each enamel formula, well...

It was during one of my exhibitions in Den Haag, Netherlands, that a visitor came up to me to ask...

When I was the only American enameling in a week's workshop in a small town in Hungary, it had taken...

Expressionist art creates images designed to communicate the artist's feelings. In this art, the artist is not a dispassionate reproducer...

I have been using coarse enamel mixes (20/40 mesh) in my torch fire enameling work since 1972. My first use...

The show season had come and gone. With my kids still in school, I was unable to participate in the...

Multicolor enamel ballpoint pens can provide the artist graphic versatility and direct color enhanced drawing never before possible. In combination...

The Delhi chapter of the Enamelist Society, India presented "Enamel Revisited", an exhibition of a varied repertoire of enamelled paintings...

Mixing Dry Granular Material Frequently, we are asked how to mix two or more dry materials, such as two transparent...

30th International Enamel Workshop The well-known international Enamel Workshop in Kecskemét celebrated its 30 years existence with a conference and...

I recently had the opportunity to teach teenagers enameling at one of my favorite places in the world, John C....

It seems like it was over a year ago, but in fact, The Arsenal Metals & Enamels Exhibition debuted this...

Our second conference was a success! The conference started promptly at 9 a.m., August 18 - a beautiful sunny day....

When I was asked to make an enameled Menorah last summer, I agreed to try. The only ones I had...