Coloured Enamel

Using colour in enamel is not like mixing paints on a pallet! Some colours are so difficult to fire while others can be very lively and unpredictable. They react to each other, to the metal they are fired on, the temperature of the kiln…..there are endless possibilities.

Then you can add beads, glass threads, silver foils….I do try to remember to make a note of the colours I use and the temperatures I fire at!

These photos show a few of my recent experiments, using layers of colour on copper sheet, fired at around 800’C between each layer.