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| Happy Valentine's Day! |
Simple : sweet : everyday Valentine
I've been slowly collecting different little jars of enamels, absolutely fascinated. I have been doing my own lapidary work and amassing beautiful stones for such a long time and now this colorful addition has me oohing and ahhing at the sweet, soft combinations. I'm using both copper and silver and playing with some success that has even me excited to combine enamels with metalwork and stones.
I am finding that different gases produce different subtle effects - wanted and unwanted! I particularly like the sugar phase of the sifted enamel powders transforming and the two pair of earrings here show exactly that. Rough texture and deep, deep color. Fun to watch the enamels as they transform and a trick to get them to stop just where you want. Practice practice.
This pink and white pair of earrings shows that colors are not blended like paint. Rather, combining two or more colors of enamel will give you speckles and another dimension to pieces.I have a wonderful show on the schedule for 23 Feb in Omaha - Art & Soup - and I've been creating piles of earrings and pendants in the last month. Gotta admit, I'm pretty excited to see if everyone else is as enamored with enamel as I am.
Fingers crossed.
