It's happening now and until Sunday

another collage of my work

I'm back

Back at last. In time I may get around to putting up some of my holiday pictures but for now I'm in CRAFTfest mode.

Here is the poster:

And here is what I intend will be the first of a series of panels to illustrate my wares:

 

If you want to know more you may go through to 

http://craftfest-events.com/best-of-british.html

Here is a link to the CRAFTfest brochure

http://craftfest-events.com/brochure.html

relisted my wildlife collection today

 

Coming soon

http://www.craftfest-events.com/best-of-british.html
 

How is enamelling done?

This short video slideshow demonstrates the basics of enamelling including the scrolling technique I use in many of my creations

We see the kiln ready for use, glowing red hot. The next two slides show a red hot bowl being taken out of the kiln. The bowl is upside down; I have fired a coat of counter enamel to the reverse side. This balances the expansion and contraction as I fire further layers of enamel to the decorative side of the piece.

At this stage the bowl has one layer of enamel on the decorative surface; from here I will add anywhere from four to ten more layers.

Next I show a bowl being put into in to the kiln. It is at its final firing.

When it reaches red hot I will reach in with a crooked tool to disturb the patterns I have put on it to create  a scrolled pattern. The next slide shows this part of the work.

Some samples from a week of relistings

Evidently the first day of CRAFTfest went so well that we managed to crash the server.

I have a sale - no idea if it emanates from the CRAFTfest activity.

Here is my display picture and the avatar that illlustrates my CRAFTfest stall:


 

Time to get back to this blog. CRAFTfest2016 starts on Friday, 26th February.
 
Here is the link to the brochure http://www.craftfest-events.com/brochure.html