The Best Enameling Course You Will Find! (Learn To Enamel)
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.
This video package is the best place to begin your enameling journey!
Learn the art of enameling from expert Dave Berfield.
$169.95 for 4 Videos, 6.9 Hours of Instruction and Secrets of Methods for Small Shops
DVD#1: 1 hour 38 minutes:
About the Steel
Cleaning the Steel
Preparing Ground Coat
Checking Specific Gravity
Checking the Set
Spraying the Ground Coat
Firing the Ground Coat
After a Few Minutes
Cleaning the Gun
Applying the Finish Coat
After Spraying Three Coats of Brown
Firing the Finish Coat
Time Passes
After the Panels Cool
Media
Making Finish Coat Colors
Making Overglaze Enamel Colors for Spraying
Applying Graphics
Comparing Use of Finish Coats & Overglazes
Finger Painting & Sgraffito
Using an Airbrush
Using Magnetic Sheeting
Spray
DVD#2: 1 hour 44 minutes
Using Friskets
Transferring Art Work
Cutting the Frisket
Preparing for Spraying
About the Ink
About the Spray Gun
Spraying the First Color
Removing the Frisket
The Second Color
Registration for the Second Color
More about Registration
Spraying the Second Color
Another Way
Making a Last Minute Correction
Firing
About Five Minutes Later
Cleaning the Spray Gun
Wax Resist
Using Roughback
Spraying Finish Coat on Two Trays
First Firing
Minutes Later
A Quick Review
Applying Wax Resist
Second Firing
Minutes Later
Applying Digital Decals
After Firing
Making Colored Overglaze Enamels
Making a Rough Surface for Painting
Some Painting or Drawing Techniques
After Firing
DVD#3: 2 hours
Chapter #1: Screen Printing
Making a Stencil: Coating the Screen
Exposing the Stencils
Exposing Indirect Stencils
Developing the Direct Emulsion
Developing the Indirect Emulsion
Placing the Film
Setting Up
Mixing Silk Screen Ink
Printing
Odds and Ends
The Second Print
Printing Text
Mesh Size
Cleaning Screens
More Odds & Ends
Printing Gold
DVD#4: Part 1, 37 minutes, Part 2, 55 Minutes
Part 1:
Chapter 1: Screen Printing with Dave Berfield, Deborah Mersky and Joe O’Brien
Printing Public Art for John Muir Elementary School
View the actual process of screening enamel onto several large pieces that were
combined to make an even larger sculptural display. Design by Deborah Mersky.
Part 2:
Chapter #2: Milling Enamels
Chapter #3: Checking for Fineness
Chapter #4: Worth Mentioning (Dry Milling Possibility)
Chapter #5: Making Finish Coat Colors with a Blender
Chapter #6: Dave’s Stock of Colorants
Chapter #7: Making Colors with Overglaze Enamels
Chapter #8: Recycling Waste
Learn the ancient art of enameling with expert Dave Berfield. Decades of experimentation and information you cannot find anywhere else!
