Ever wanted to try enameling without a kiln? Turn off that electricity and join us. This is your low budget, low tech approach to enameling small objects or jewelry pieces that will leave you with the skills to do this at home.
Torch-fired Enamels: Let’s Sugar Coat This
You will learn how to use liquid, transparent & opaque enamels, sgraffito techniques, and the use of all firing techniques with the final firing being under-fired to achieve the sugar/granular surface. Cold-connections, minimal soldering skills, metal and surface embellishments for your piece(s) can be explored.
Some Like it Hot: Torch-fired Enamels
You will learn how to use liquid and transparent enamels, sgraffito techniques, and the use of under and over-firing for particular desired affects. Cold-connection and minimal soldering skill options for your piece(s) can be explored.
Anne Havel
Anne is an enamelist, metalsmith, and lampworker (she makes glass beads). Anne is inspired by many of the abstract painters, space objects and creatures from her imagination, molecular level shapes, geometry, clay artists, building structures, flowers, etc.
The world is imperfect and that is reflected in much of Anne’s work – not a perfect circle or square – rough around the edges. Even nature, which is the closest anything comes to perfection, manifests its “perceived flaws” in the imperfect flower, the decaying tree bark, or the mold-ridden fence-post. All these beautiful “flaws” drive
her work.
The enamel pieces created are intended to express humor, or make a social, political, or environmental statement, while balancing the color palette selected. The drawings, which are created with dental tools scratching through hardened liquid enamel, convey Anne’s ideas about the subject matter that is dominating her thoughts at the time. From her perspective, the world suffers from many injustices covering all spectrums of thought. She uses her art to express and convey her ideas about the many problems and issues that literally plague our planet.
Anne’s motivation is simple and pure – she wants people to be moved by the balance of the lines and forms, but most importantly the colors – have a visceral, soul-stirring response. If that happens, her work is done.