On a roll with more cups...

I am really digging the results I got with some liquid enamel. I luv they way it fractured.
My version of Cloisinee:

Some of my latest

I have been experimenting with dapping and pounding to form my own shapes. And I tried some matte finish enamel. Me thinks I like it!!These are made by fusing fine silver..i love fusing..watching that split second of molten metal. This is one of those...gee why didn't they tell me that. I wanted purple of fine silver. So I happily enameled...they came out of the kiln...Huh? Did I use the wrong enamel? Ok..so I put on another layer. Making double sure I sued the right colors. GREEN again?!? So I talked to my favorite enamel supplier, Joan Schlaifer of enameling.com, and she told me..Oh yes...that color purple fires green on fine silver. ok..now I know. It is a pretty color green.

Practicing Wet Packing

I still have not made my sample chips...I do not have much time to enamel let alone make samples. Although I desperately need them. This is my endeavor in wet packing some enamel on leaves that I cut and shaped out of copper. In my mind I was not expecting it to fire the way it did. So I made numerous other firings to get them to look like the finished earrings. I had to cover the what I felt was 2 dark potion on the lower/center right. I liked they was the turned out in the end.

WET PACKED before FIRINGAFTER FIRING (several more firings)

Enameling continues...

More of my experiments with enameling. I am always surprised with what comes out of the kiln. Now I get why they say enameling take minutes to learn and a life time to master. It doesn't always do what you think you want it to.

Not about Jewelry but so cool!

One year in 40 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.