Enamel is not forgiving if you make a mistake. I think I’ve worked out how to join the different pieces together and the order in which I would make the two pieces I’d planned. Quite a long list of jobs. The texture had been hammered into the copper, holes for rivets were drilled. So it was time to fire up the kiln!
The backs of my pieces also needed to be “counter enamelled “ to help stop the copper warping. This means that I had to work out how to support these large pieces when they have enamel on both sides. There were a few wobbles…
The clear enamel, or flux, is going to act as a foundation for all the bright colours, and will hold the wires and copper circles in place.
