Have you ever experienced this? You’re sawing away so quietly and suddenly the saw blade doesn’t quite want to glide through the metal. Here, any candle through which the saw blade is pulled provides an effective remedy. The wax acts as a lubricant during sawing and the saw blade glides […]
Yearly archives: 2023
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You can enamel not only in a kiln, but also with an open flame. Here some impression on this method:
Transparent enamel is often underlaid with gold or silver leaf to increase the luminosity of the colors. For this purpose, the gold leaf/silver leaf is fired onto a layer of enamel and then further layers of transparent enamel follow.
On the occasion of the 101st birthday of Margarete Svoboda, the CKI is exhibiting a retrospective of her works. Born in 1921 in Mercydorf in Banat, she devoted herself to porcelain painting and enamel art. She attended the art school in Timisoara and the art academy in Cluj-Napoca and was […]
Before the enamel can be applied to the metal (copper, silver or gold), it must be degreased and freed from all oxidation (in the case of copper). Here are three completely harmless and environmentally friendly recipes. However, it goes without saying that even these stains should not get into the […]
Creativity, painting, drawing, creating objects, sewing, designing jewelry, I saw this as a necessity for my life from an early age and practiced it intensively. Then, during my studies, and later in addition to my university job as a university teacher and my freelance work as a technical translator and […]
Renate Mikolajczyk passed away in October 2023. She was one of the first members of the CKI and together with her husband she played an active role in shaping the association. Her first contacts with the material enamel were in 1965, from that point she developed her artistic activity as […]
I am an artist and my studio is in the Uden area. I work with goldsmith design and attended four years of evening drawing school and two years of Paris art school. Besides the CKI I am also a member of the artist group Kubra, which unites artists from Brabant. […]
My name is Rob Vermeer. I was born in Amsterdam in 1946 and I am currently living in Valkenswaard in the Netherlands. I am an autodidact in arts and have been painting for many years. Apart from painting in oil and acrylic, I started to work with enamel and became […]
Material Round copper blank Copper wire Enamel (powdered fondant enamel, wet black enamel, transparent chip enamel) Painting brush Tin plummet scissors Side cutter Rosary pliers Modeling tool Tweezers File Grinding block Firing sieve Instruction Draw spiral shape on copper blank and cut it out Bend the copper wire and place […]
Born on 8th of April 1941, Hedi Hentschel completed an education at the artisan training workshop in Duisburg and studied textile design at the Textile Engineering School in Krefeld. She worked as a textile designer in the studio Derichsweiler and Hillers in Krefeld, took numerous courses in weaving techniques and […]
The foundation “Ritter von Böhl” houses an extensive enamel collection in the homonymous hotel and café in Deidesheim. Contact http://www.ritter-von-boehl.de
How to create a penguin pendant with jewelry enamel on copper using the technique of Cloisonné? Sprinkle enamel onto the cleaned copper plate Bend the copper wire and place it on the plate First firing results in a copper plate covered with enamel and the contour-giving wires Colour the penguin […]
In Ponte San Pietro in Bergamo / Italy the Enamel-Museum “ArTchivio” of the Italian CKI group is located. It’s run by the president of the CKI Italy, Attilio Compagnoni, who exhibits his extensive private collection of enamel art. Contact http://www.cki.altervista.org
How to create an enamel artwork using different techniques on steel? Air-brush enamel on a grounded steel plate, skratch the contours and fire the first time Air-brush enamel again, using different colours and strickles and fire the second time Add enamel with sponge and brush and fire the third time […]
Petra Werland, born on 6th of February 1959 Some years ago, I took part in several enameling classes offered by Ingeborg Martin. From my school days, I still knew enameling and working with colour and fire and was immediately “on fire” again for this creative design. My husband Peter shares […]
Peter Werland, born on 12th of August 1954 Growing up on the beautiful Middle Moselle, I like wine and culture. More than 30 years ago my wife and I moved to Monzelfeld in the nearby Hunsrück. Only a few years ago I became interested in working with enamel. My wife […]
Born on 12th of April 1947 in Grünstadt in the Pfalz Education as social pedagogue I have been working with enamel since 1969 1971 to 1975 study visit in Johannesburg / South Africa in the enamel studio “Forma Viva”, there active as a designer for jewelry, after my return to […]