by Patsy Croft | Jul 15, 2010 | Enamels, Properties, Firing Times and Color Charts
Color Plates-Understanding Expansion of Your Enamels Color plates are very important. And yet so many choose not to do them. I know it takes a lot of time! Yes, you can get recommendations of colors from other artist, but in the long, the practice of making color...
by Patsy Croft | Jun 28, 2010 | Enamels, Properties, Firing Times and Color Charts
Some thing you can do to enhance your work is to carve in the enamel. On this Nautilus Pendant I used white Askansas Stones to carve out the shape of the shell’s spiral. Hi Jennifer, Thank for the visit. I was not at the conference, but Merry-Lee Rae presented a...
by Patsy Croft | Jun 16, 2010 | Enamels, Properties, Firing Times and Color Charts
Hi Patsy, First of all, thanks for doing this blog; it’s obviously a big help to many people. I’m relatively new to enamelling; I’ve done mostly flat pieces that have gone basically well. I just enameled a pair of earrings that developed serious cracks. To fabricate...
by Patsy Croft | Jun 15, 2010 | Enamels, Properties, Firing Times and Color Charts
If you see white specks in your enamel, remove them. This is a sign of deterioration. Some times there is only a few and you can remove them before you place any enamel in your work. Sometime the enamel sits on the bottom and water will not penetrate the enamel at...
by Patsy Croft | Apr 18, 2010 | Enamels, Properties, Firing Times and Color Charts
A few words from Bell Helwig of Thompson’s Enamel on Leaded Enamels The absence of a US manufacturer will not detour the enamelist, nor will the use of lead free vitreous enamel decrease the quality level of items produced. The replacement of lead bearing with...
by Patsy Croft | Apr 17, 2010 | Enamels, Properties, Firing Times and Color Charts
Patsy I am brand new to enameling and it is like being in the Land of Oz. I look at the catalogs and just get lost. There are opaques and transparent and leaded and unleaded and oh yea the grain size stuff. So now that I am sitting here with couple of hundred of...
