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Watercolor Enameling: Easy and Simple
Using watercolor enamels, students will learn how to create images and patterns on opaque enameled copper with step-by-step instructions. The watercolor enamels used in the workshop will allow you to achieve very detailed, colorful, and subtle images and patterns on a glass surface. Techniques include mixing colors, making marks, building up layers, and adding fine details. If you have ever wanted to learn how to add drawing or a painterly quality into your work using watercolor enamels, then this is the workshop for you! Imagery can range from realistic to abstract and can include pencil drawings and watercolor paintings. Some experience with sifting preferred.
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Meet the instructor
Mi-Sook Hur is a metalsmith, enamellist, and educator teaching at the School of Art and Design at East Carolina University. She received a BFA in Metalwork and Jewelry from Seoul National University in Korea and an MFA in Metals from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mi-Sook Hur has exhibited her work at the Museum of Arts and Design, SOFA Chicago, Itami Museum of Arts and Crafts in Japan, and Vicenza Oro II in Italy. Her work has been included in The Art of Enameling: Techniques, Projects, Inspiration by Linda Darty, 500 Enameled, and Metalsmith. Hur has received prize awards from the Enamelist Society, Niche Awards, the Purchase Award from Arkansas Arts Center, and the European Design-an Asian Renaissance Evoked in Gold Award from the World Gold Council. She is a former artist-in-residence at John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and the Jentel Foundation. She published a book chapter on Limoges enamels in The Art of Fine Enameling by Karen L. Cohen. Additionally, she has taught workshops at Penland School of Crafts, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, John C. Campbell Folk School, Pocosin Arts School of Fine Crafts, Metalwerx, EGNE, Pullen Art Center, Seoul National University, and Kookmin University.
Her work is included in the collections of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (Little Rock, AR); Enamel Arts Foundations (Los Angeles, CA); Crocker Art Museum, (Sacramento, CA); John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI); Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA); Racine Art Museum (Racine, WI); Sunny & Gloria Kamm (CA); and Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT).
Materials & Tools
The following supplies will be used for course demonstrations and objectives. A suggested item and/or vendor has been provided below for reference. Click the vendor name (in red) to be redirected to a page where you can find the item. The quantities needed for each item are listed first. If ordering, please be aware that some items may come in larger quantities than needed for this class. We recommend not opening an item's packaging until the day of the workshop. Student participation during or in-between class sessions is strongly encouraged but not required - observers are welcome.
Enamels (Thompson brand):
- 1-2oz x 1010 undercoat or 1030 foundation (Thompson or Thompson)
- 1oz x 2020 or 2030 clear - 2030 preferred (Thompson or Thompson)
- 1 x set of 10 Thompson watercolor enamels (Thompson)
Enameling tools:
- BASIC ENAMELING SETUP WITH KILN (Basic Tool Resource Page)
- 1 x Kemper wipe out tool (Blick)
- 1 x small painting knife (Blick)
- 1 x quality round sable brushes - sizes 0, 2/0, 3/0 (Blick or Blick)
- 1 x cheap flat watercolor brush - 1/2" wide (Blick)
- 1 x Saral transfer paper - red (Blick)
- 1 x etching cream (Blick or Thompson or Enamel Warehouse)
- 1 x glass or fiberglass scratch brush (Thompson or Otto or Enamel Warehouse)
- 1 x pack of Dap blue Stik - and small pad to work on (Enamel Warehouse)
- 1 x Thompson A1 Klyr-Fire (Thompson)
- 1 x spray bottle - for Klyr-Fire - optional (Amazon)
Metal/raw materials:
- 5-10 x small copper sheets - 1" to 2" - 18g to 24g (Thompson)
Other/miscellaneous items:
- 2 x smooth white ceramic tiles or glass tile - approx. 4"x4"
- plastic containers with lids - larger than your tiles
- eye dropper
- dust mask
- masking or blue painter's tape
- old magazines - to work on top
- paper towels - one roll
- distilled water and two cups
- green scrubby pad
- green IR safety glasses - recommended
- magnifiers - 2x and 6x - optional