Saturday 8 September 2012

Beginners workshop at the studio today with Felicity, Jane and Ursula.  Huge thank you again to Linda who came along to help out.

Felicity filing her copper to remove a burr, Jane wet packing her design

Linda explaining capiliary action to Felicity after wet laying enamel onto her design

Ursula seeing if the wires fit onto her design

Jane coiling wire ready to go onto her design

Felicity sifting flux onto the front of her piece of copper

Linda looking on as Jane is about to take out her piece of enamel

Linda giving a helping hand, it looks hot

Ursula steadying her hand to put her piece of copper in the kiln

Using carborundum stone to clean the copper design

The final result - finished pendants
Everyone did brilliantly
 

Tuesday 4 September 2012

Guild of Enamellers Region 4 meeting this month was a workshop with Gillie Hoyt Byrom doing sponge painting.  It was a fab day and you can see from the photos everyone was engrossed in what they were doing.  Gillie was an excellent teacher and gave us lots of encouragement and help and made the process really enjoyable.