All Levels* $220-$270 Materials and Studio Fees**
Transform your ideas, drawings, or personal photos into lustrous enameled surfaces as you explore mark making, painting, and drawing to capture your inspirations with the exciting possibilities in the colorful world of enameling. You will explore dry sifting, stenciling, silk screens, and sgraffito in combination with painting and drawing techniques using a variety of materials, from underglaze pigments to overglaze paints. Shimmering details will be added with mica powders, metallic inks, and precious metal foils. Participants may choose to create a collection of working samples to later inform their work, finished pieces to be set as beautiful enamel jewelry, or small works to mount on the wall.
*Some experience with enamel or metalwork is helpful but not required. Any painting and drawing skills will support a participant’s experience but are not required.
*Materials and studio fees are charged to students based on studio usage and materials Touchstone is providing at the request of the instructor. Additionally, some instructors may also require that you bring certain materials and tools with you, in which case a list will be provided. Final cost of these fees will be posted at least two weeks ahead of the workshop to be paid in full prior to check-in.
MATERIAL LIST
WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS should bring the following materials for the workshop
*It is recommended that you wait to hear if the workshop is running before you purchase materials. Touchstone will let you know if a workshop is running no later than 2 weeks before the start of the class. Regardless of the outcome of the class, running or not, Touchstone is not responsible for the reimbursement of any materials bought for a workshop.
- 1 each of Sable Brushes for overglaze painting; 1, 0, 2/0, 3/0 These are expensive but worth it. OR Budget oriented option for brushes; 1, 0, 2/0, 3/0
Suggested purchase: Winsor & Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable Brushes and Set | BLICK Art Materials or Blick Master Synthetic Kolinsky Round Brushes | BLICK Art Materials
- Palette Knife (A more flexible palette knife is essential)
Suggested purchase: Richeson Offset Economy Painting Knife – No. 893, 1-7/8″ x 1/2″ | BLICK Art Materials
- Cheap Ceramic White Tile 6” x 6”
- Various Graphite pencils~ Variety hard and soft; 4B- 6H
Suggested purchase: Blick Studio Drawing Pencils – Set of 12 | BLICK Art Materials
- White & black art eraser
- Fan Brush (Optional)
Suggested purchase: Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolor Brush – Fan, Short Handle, Size 4 | BLICK Art Materials
- Filbert Brushes (Optional)
Suggested purchase: Da Vinci Nova Synthetic Brushes and Sets | BLICK Art Materials
- Angle Brush (Optional)
Suggested purchase: Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolor Brush – Angled, Short Handle, Size 3/8″ | BLICK Art Materials
- Tachikawa Comic Pen
Suggested purchase: Amazon.com : Tachikawa Comic Pen Nib Holder(T-40) + Zebra Comic G Model Chrome Pen 10 Nibs(PG-6C-C-K) : Office Products
- Copper shapes for enameling (optional) Thompson Enamel Supplies
Suggested purchase: Stamped Copper Pieces – Thompson Enamel
- Personal sketches, drawings, inspirational photographs, or images that interest or inspire you
- Personal or family photographs (black & white best) or high-contrast black and white designs
- Apron and Lint free work rag
- Small pad, wood block, or cupcake turntable to set work on
- N-95 particle mask or other similar quality dust mask
- White Prismacolor Pencil (Bring color sets, if you already own them)
- Magnifying eyewear or Jewelers Opti-visor
- Small scissors; any but Joyce Chen are great!
Suggested purchase: Amazon.com: Joyce Chen Original Unlimited Kitchen Scissors All Purpose Kitchen Shears With Comfortable Handles, Red: Joyce Chen Scissors: Home & Kitchen
- Sharpie Extra (Ultra) Fine Point
- Xacto knife + extra blades no. 11
- Any plastic stencils or other materials such as lace, laser cut cards, netting, cheesecloth (Optional)
Laser cut greeting cards make great stencils! Any other materials you have on hand
- Rubber stamps, various ones on hand (Optional)
- Wipe out tool
Suggested purchase: Kemper Wipe Out Tool | BLICK Art Materials
- An airtight container to hold the tile with paints overnight (Cookie tins, heavy duty food storage containers that shut tight completely)
- Covered Paint Palette tray-A nicer version, if you want a personal long-lasting tray
- Copper Sheet: 16, 18 g. for flat work/20, 22, 24g for jewelry
Any you have on hand (Thinner sheet must be formed or domed before enameling)
- Metal scribe or pointed sharp tool; i.e. sewing needle in cork
Suggested purchase: Inlay Tools – Thompson Enamel
- Nitrile Gloves
- 80 Mesh Enamels (Optional)- any that you have on hand
- Mason Stains (Optional)- any that you have on hand
- China Paints/Sunshine colors (Optional)- any that you have on hand
- Gelly-Roll’ Sakura metallic gel pens: white #50, Silver #553, and gold #551
- Any of your own personal tools that you wish to use (Optional)
- Apron (Optional)
- Sketch book, Pen, Pencil
- Reusable Water Bottle
Download this list: The Alchemy of Enamel_Materials List