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Die Forming and Enameling
Learn how to add dimension and color to your jewelry pieces! We will learn to create our own unique acrylic silhouette dies for forming metal and then add color to our formed pieces using vitreous enamels. A variety of ways to alter and enhance our die formed pieces will be demonstrated, including piercing, texturing, and forming techniques.
Students will learn enameling on a three-dimensional surface and how to create a rich surface through the use of metal texturing and enameling techniques including sugar firing, layering opaque and transparent enamels and the use of reflective glass beads, microbeads, seed beads, and sand. Kiln firing and torch firing techniques will be covered. Finally, we will learn setting techniques for our die formed enamels. Students can expect to complete a finished die formed enamel piece.
Meet the instructor
Kathryn Osgood is a metalsmith, enamellist, and former Associate Professor at College of The Albemarle. She received her MFA in Metal Design from East Carolina University. Her work is included in the collections of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Yale University Art Gallery, Mint Museum, Crocker Art Museum, Gregg Museum, Racine Arts Museum, and The Enamel Arts Foundation. Publications include The Art of Enameling, 500 Necklaces, The Art of Jewelry: Wood, Contemporary Enameling: Art and Techniques, Steel Wire Jewelry, The Art of Fine Enameling, and Metalsmith magazine.
Materials & Tools
There is a $50 materials fee for this class that is payable upon registration. This kit includes all the metal, enamels, and other consumables (e.g. sawblades) you will need for class.
- Closed-toe shoes - required in the Metalwerx studio