Enameling On Steel by Dave Berfield:
Instruction, Tools, Techniques and Tips after 35 years of work
The process of enamel on steel is weather durable, scalable and long-lasting. Porcelain Enamel on Steel has lost out to far less durable methods and the knowledge is in jeopardy of becoming lost. You can successfully enamel jewelry sized pieces as well, but Dave takes you to the realms of permanent: Photographic Presentations, Gallery Art, Trays and Boxes and transforming other art media presentations into more permanent and larger formats. Berfield shares his discoveries into the most cost effective processes for small studios, best materials for successful enameling on steel, and his favorite creative design techniques.
Dave Berfield - Enameling On Steel (Learn To Enamel From An Expert)
$169.95
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
Belfield’s four disk set (6.9 hours) includes chapters on:
Transferring Art Work
Using Friskets
Choosing the Steel, Screens, and Enamels
Making Finish Coats and Overglaze Enamels
Using a Spray Gun and Spraying
Firing
Design Techniques such as Applying Digital Decals
Painting Techniques
Using Magnetic Sheeting
Slip Trailing
Spray and Brush
Sgraffito
Recycling Waste
And sooo much more!
Information you cannot get anywhere else.
Dave Berfield has a background in art and art education, and studied ceramicsat the University of Hawaii where he received an MFA. In Seattle, he learned enameling techniques and over 35 years, collaborated with many artists, including painter Jacob Lawrence, on large-scale public murals, fixing enamel images to steel. His company was called The Porcelain Company. The Lawrence enamels in Seattle’s Kingdome were Berfield’s work and were moved to the Seattle Convention Center when the Kingdome came down. More recently he built a prototype mural with artist Ellen Forney, painted with porcelain enamel on steel, for the Sound Transit Capitol Hill Station which opened in March, 2016.
