by Patsy Croft | Jun 3, 2011 | Building a Good Foundation
Great book on watercolors. She uses the white of the paper to stay bright as we would use our fine silver. Adding warm colors and light to make the information come forward, adding shadows and cool colors to create distance. Try the exercise she has, it helps you...
by Patsy Croft | Jun 1, 2011 | Building a Good Foundation
Watercolors are a great way to get your enamel designs together and see on paper first, to helps to know your imaginations view will be delivered in your final enameling design. A set of Winsor Newton Travel Watercolors, with a block of watercolor paper that...
by Patsy Croft | Apr 15, 2011 | Enamels, Properties, Firing Times and Color Charts
History and Facts About Enamels Art Enameling on Metals by H.H. Cunynghame 1906 Interesting Facts about Enamels, Metals such as gold, silver, iron, copper and fine brass; copper with a small amount of tin, are capable of being enameled. But nickel, zinc, or common...
by Patsy Croft | Dec 22, 2010 | Enameling Metals, and Demos
Demo by Brenda Radford, The Gum Bichromate Process for Enamels This process is an old photographic printing technique, and I learned it from Gretchen Goss in a workshop she gave in Oakland, California in 2009. She adapted it from photography colleagues at the...
by Patsy Croft | Oct 26, 2010 | Plique a Jour Jewelry Techniques
The plique-à-jour technique with torch, amazing! In my research of alternative methods used in Plique a Jour I can across this article in Glass on Metal, by Carmen Lombardi and yes she uses a torch to create Plique a Jour. Carmon uses sterling silver as her metal to...
