Underglaze and Overglaze.
Boy-o! Life does creep on ya! I have many more thoughts about the conference and have yet to find the time to write them all down. It was wonderful visiting with friends, eating at fabulous restaurants*, staying with gracious couchsurfing hosts, and meeting inspirational and established enamelists.
I drove home through the redwoods where I had my very first bald eagle sighting and came across a herd of elk. I love the West Coast.
The class I took in coorelation with the conference was called “Form and Image” taught by Jessica Calderwood. We worked a bit with a hydraulic press and explored the possiblities of under and overglazes. I was stoked. I’m still stoked to apply this the new found knowledge to my pieces! Essentially, one needs to put down a nice ground coat and counterenamel, etch the enamel to give it texture and then it is ready to draw on! With a pencil! Seriously! A regular graphite pencil will work though we used Amaco’s underglaze pencils. After firing it in we explored the wonders of overglazes. I’ll stop yammering and give some examples I did in class. How ’bout that? 
Work in Progress from Jessica Calderwood's class in underglaze pencil and overglaze
Work in Progress from Jessica Calderwood's class in underglaze pencil and overglaze
- Work in Progress from Jessica Calderwood’s class in underglaze pencil and overglaze
*Millenium, Mint Leaf, Cha Ya, B, Harveys, La Mediterranee, nom nom nom
