The Best Enameling Course You Will Find! (Learn To Enamel)

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In Enameling on Steel (for Small Studios), your instructor, Dave Berfield, takes you on a complete journey. Along the way you will learn about enamels as applied to steel, but other metals are suitable. Enamels share glass as a portion of their makeup. Porcelain enamels are extra finely ground, to be able to be sprayed on, silk screened and so on. You can make your own color mixtures, which is not possible in every enamel technique!

LEARNING & eXPLORING

Preparing and choosing the steel and applying the first coats of enamel are just the beginning steps! You can learn about using screens, wax resists, stencils, decals, painting techniques, airbrushing and spray gun applications, photo transfers…Dave walks viewers through the processes and techniques of working with porcelain enamels. An Art which is very weather-durable! Whatever your art background, you will be able to express it with enamels.

Real Time referencing

This video gives you Dave Berfield in a very personal presentation. You can refer back to whatever section you may need, as frequently as you need. Books are great additions to hands on knowledge, but seeing an action done is worth many paragraphs about it. This information might be learned over a 4 to 5 day workshop. You would have to arrange to travel to the workshop location, stay nearby, take that time out of your schedule and absorb the information. Most workshops do not provide a video ‘refresher’ for you to take home.

You can use what you learn for small scale items of jewelry, boxes, or bowls. Or you can take your designs up to monument size, even if your studio space is small. You will learn how to use commercially prepared enamels. You will also learn how to make your own enamel material & how to use it on steel from the bare metal, all the steps in between, up to the finished product.

dave Berfield

Dave’s enameling career spans over 35 years, much of which was spent collaborating with artists wishing to move into large-scale public murals with their art. Enamel on steel provides lasting images which work both indoors and out. Dave’s background is in art and art education. He studied ceramics at the University of Hawaii where he received an MFA. Dave’s Company was called The Porcelain Company. Painter Jacob Lawrence collaborated with Dave Berfield on a large scale enamel work. The Lawrence enamels were displayed in Seattle’s Kingdome Sport’s Arena and were then moved to the Seattle Convention Center after the Kingdome was retired.

learn from an expert

All learning applies to other learning. This is especially true in the arts. Enamel on Steel applies to the wide world of enameling. Most enamelists choose to use a variety of techniques in one piece of enamel, to portray the atmosphere, the emotion, or subject of the art. Dave gives you all the techniques to take forward to other places. Steel is moving up in use as a metal for enameling. It can become a 3 D object, remain flat, have other planes wedded to it, or even some modeling of the surface is being done. It puts up with a lot of abuse and invites study.