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Painting with Enamel
This course is currently full. Spaces do occasionally open up so if you would like to be put on the wait list please call our office at 781-891-3854 or email [email protected].(Please include your name, phone number, and email address).
Linda Darty's painterly approach to enameling produces alluring gemlike surfaces, vivid colors, and remarkable depth. Not only is Linda's enamelwork incredible, but she also wrote the "go-to" book to learn it—The Art of Enameling, published by Lark Books. Spend a week with this passionate leader in the field, focusing on painting processes using enamel materials.
Both beginning and advanced students will learn basic application and firing techniques with opaque and transparent enamels as well as how to embellish the surfaces with imagery, textures, and patterns. Methods for shading with regular enamel, water-color enamels, acrylic enamels, graphite, underglazes, and china paints will be shown and students can choose to work with the materials they like best. Students of all levels can choose to make samples for further study or focus on creating finished jewelry scale pieces in this course.
If you'd like to see more of Linda's work, please visit her website lindadarty.com
Meet the instructor
Linda is a jewelry and enameling professor at East Carolina University and founder/ director of their ECU Tuscany study abroad program, where she currently lives and teaches. She has an extensive international exhibition record, is the author of The Art of Enameling, and frequently teaches workshops on enameling in this country and abroad. Linda is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for research from East Carolina University, the Board of Governors Award for teaching excellence and the Life -Time Achievement Award from The Enamelist Society. Her work is in public and private collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Museum of Art and Design in NYC, Yale University Art Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts and the Crocker Art Museum.
Materials & Tools
There is a $30 lab fee for this workshop which includes use of regular, water color, and acrylic enamels, under-glazes, over-glazes, and other miscellaneous supplies for the process
Students are certainly welcome to bring their own enamels and enameling supplies if they have them (contact us if you have questions). Additional items available for sale from the instructor as needed include: Copper shapes, 000 paintbrush, a set of china paints from Germany (optional) ($40.00), plastic disposable condiment cups, lead bearing colors optional, suggested if you wish to work on silver ($50.00).
Student Supply List:
If you are a metalsmith or already enamel, you might want to bring your favorite enamels, tools and supplies, (3/0 or 4/0 saw blades, pliers, files etc.) Metalwerx has many hand tools available for use during class as well.
Here is a specific checklist of items that students will need for class.
- Small copper shapes to enamel on - about 18-20 ga. (instructor will have discs in various sizes for sale)
- A good dust mask (we recommend 3M – 8233 (rated N100)
- Tweezers – clean and sharp, NOT previously used for soldering
- Soft graphite pencils and a small pencil sharpener – Linda likes to use various pencils, like 2B or softer
- A Sharpie marker is handy for labeling enamel containers
- Tracing paper/sketch book, colored pencils if you like using them for designing
- Cheap eye dropper
- Water color tray or about 12 plastic spoons.
- Small piece of glass with masking tape on the edges (like out of a picture frame – about 4" x 6" )
- A palette knife like used in painting
- 000 sharp pointed sable paint brush (instructor will have for sale)
- Any other small flat or pointed sable paint brushes that you like painting with
- Small scissors (like embroidery scissors) if you want to make stencils or cut foil – exacto would also work
- 6" half round file for filing edges of pieces
- Towel/apron