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Enameling On Steel: Kat Cole's Marvelous Workshop
During the three-day workshop we learned all about steel: different types (which had always confused me), which kinds of steel work best with enameling, and resources for finding special enameling steel (which can be difficult to track down). As we discovered, you can even enamel on stainless steel, which we did on bowls provided to us in the workshop!
Enamel as Glass: Not So Radical!
Two recent workshops help re-define enamel’s place in the art world. Sometimes similar ideas appear in unrelated places and then turn out to be related after all, in what I think of as an ‘archetype’ in the Jungian sense of the word. This is what has slowly been happening in various corners of the art and craft communities, as makers of all kinds are treating enamel more as a glass, and less as simply a glaze for metal.