Upcoming Workshops 2023
THE ALCHEMY OF ENAMELS: TRANSFORMATIONS IN GLASS ON METAL
Arrowmont School of Arts & Craft
Gatlinburg, TN
10/1-10/6/2023
Transform your ideas, drawings, or personal photos into colorful and lustrous enameled surfaces as you explore mark making, painting, and drawing.
OVER, UNDER, AND IN-BETWEEN
Silvera Jewelry School
Berkeley, CA
6/16-6/30/23
Join Barbara McFadyen in this exciting workshop designed to take you through the ins and outs of underglaze, overglaze and how to use the various options out there. Discover the depth and beauty of enamel as you learn to layer color, pattern, and imagery into unique and lasting pieces while exploring exciting enameling techniques. Working from personal sketches or printed images, learn how to incorporate drawing and painting techniques into layers of vitreous enamel. This class will allow you to use enamel as a dimensional canvas, while learning the basics of what transparent enamels, opaque enamels, and painting materials can do to create depth and luscious surfaces.
OVER, UNDER, AND IN-BETWEEN
John C. Campbell Folk School
Brasstown, NC
8/13-8/18/23
Discover the depth and beauty of enamel as you layer color, pattern, and imagery onto unique pieces. Working from personal sketches or printed images, explore drawing and painting techniques as you transform your designs, building layers of vitreous enamel. Learn the basics of using enamel as a dimensional canvas and explore what transparent and opaque enamels combined with underglaze and painting materials can do to create depth and luscious surfaces. All levels welcome.
Closed Workshops
PAINTING ENAMELS- COLORS AND PATTERNS
John C. Campbell Folk School
Brasstown, NC
6/12-6/18/22
Explore a variety of ways to achieve monochrome and multicolor designs using powdered and other enamels. Inspiration will be taken from geometric and organic patterned fabric designs, photographs, and paintings. Work will be refreshed with watercolor enamels, underglaze pencils, overglaze china paints, pen and ink, and more. Learn about color theory and practice rendering, drawing, mixing colors, making marks, and adding details on enameled copper. All levels welcome.
KEEPSAKES: FUSING MEMORIES IN GLASS
Pocosin Arts School
Columbia, NC
9/30-10/1/22
Learn to use enamels to preserve your treasured photos and memories as a keepsake. Through the process of waterslide decals, photos and images can be transferred and fired onto a vitreous enamel base. Students will learn the fundamental enamel techniques of sifting, stenciling, and wet packing, as well as painting and drawing techniques using materials such as underglaze pencils and mineral oxides, watercolor enamels, and overglaze china paints. Embellishments like mica powders or gold and silver foils will add highlights and a bit of sparkle and fun as you create unique and personal enamel keepsakes. Some knowledge of enamels is helpful.
ENAMEL WRAP-UP!
The Arts Center
Carrboro, NC
TBD
This workshop combines the fun of metal marking and the basse-taille enameling.
KEEPSAKES: FUSING MEMORIES IN GLASS
Sertoma Arts Center
Raleigh, NC
3/7-3/8/2020
This workshop will explore enameling as a medium to permanently save your treasured photos and memories into a beautiful keepsake made of glass fired on metal.
Reviews:
“I sure did have a good time spending another weekend learning from you. It is a pleasure having you as a teacher…you are AMAZING and you have such a sweet and easy going personality! I agree with you mother in law that you do have the “patience of Job”. 🙂 I came home and told my husband that “I love this enameling teacher and she has so much knowledge to share!” I wish you were teaching at a local college or somewhere on a weekly basis because I would be the first to sign up to learn.” -C.C.
“I can’t say enough how much I enjoyed this workshop! I’ve already started consolidating my notes and making plans to play with more ideas this Thursday during Sertoma’s open enamel studio.
You are generous, patient and so knowledgeable. I’m so happy that I was able to participate in your workshop! I look forward to seeing more from you!” -T.C.
STAMP IT, ROLL IT, ENAMEL IT!
The Arts Center
Carrboro, NC
2/22-2/23/2020
This workshop combines the fun of metal marking and the basse-taille enameling.
All Fired Up! Enameling Basics and Beyond
10/5/2019
The ArtsCenter
Carrboro, NC
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Enameled It? Now Set It!
11/9/19
The ArtsCenter
Carrboro, NC
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Workshop at Yamawaki Art College, Tokyo, Japan
October 2018
Barbara was invited to teach a workshop on enameling at Yamawaki Art College in Tokyo.
Read more in this Spring 2019 Enamelist Society Newsletter. Read Story