Category Archives: enamel

Burning Bright

Posted on July 16, 2011 by

Vitreous enamel fired onto copper. 6×4 ins. One of several pictures that emerged from the kiln this week as I explored some new colours and ignored the text books. It’s amazing what you can get from a bit of battered … Continue reading →

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Bardo

Posted on July 11, 2011 by

A new enamel fresh from the kiln today. Making Bardo. After a session of careful work in which I tested the effects of disparate enamels on each other, and made notes, I decided to do one more before switching off … Continue reading →

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Moon Fleet

Posted on June 23, 2011 by

Moon Fleet appeared during investigations into the behaviour of leaded and lead-free enamels when juxtaposed. There is an interesting phenomena: the lead-free enamel tends to retreat from the boundary with the leaded; that is what produced the halo around each … Continue reading →

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We went botanising.

Posted on June 19, 2011 by

A day looking at wild flowers above Robin Hood’s Bay with the Whitby Naturalists Club. Half way round the walk, it bucketed down. But there were compensations. The dog rose for instance. And the dew-berry (a species of bramble). And … Continue reading →

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Not Much

Posted on February 20, 2011 by

A quiet week. Thought about enamelling but the workshop was too cold, so I just took a picture of it. We did go 20 miles up the coast to Saltburn. It was chilly. Not many folk about. Ten years ago … Continue reading →

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