Every year, early in the new year for the past three years, I've been taking a 6 week workshop in enamelling on copper. Having worked with copper when creating jewellery, I had collected many of the necessary components needed to also work with enamels. A second hand kiln I bought came with a box of enamel powders which, at the time, seemed completely foreign to me. But now I've been bitten by the bug, and have just ordered more new colours and have a sketchbook of ideas. I love how one medium can morph into a new one. For example, using my jewellery saw to cut into the copper shapes created a more exciting copper blank to embellish. I have to now concentrate on planning my firings to avoid losing the layers of colour to over firing.
It is just challenging enough to be rewarding.
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