Sharon ScaliseHello Lauren,
Thank you so much for your kind comments about my enamel piece. I did take my a while to develop my shading styles - and to master how to achieve the colors I imagined in my head.
People shade in many different ways - and I often vary... moreHello Lauren,
Thank you so much for your kind comments about my enamel piece. I did take my a while to develop my shading styles - and to master how to achieve the colors I imagined in my head.
People shade in many different ways - and I often vary slightly my shading techniques - but often the way my shading is done is by using several shades of a simular color darker to lighter in one chamber - and the variation is added by maybe not just going only from darker to lighter - but also going to slightly varying hues of the over all color.
For example - with the blues in one of the rings - I put a little of several blues in line from dark to light - a dab of each and worked them with the brush or pick and water until I saw a shaded effect. I visual blurring of the dark to light. I used #26 Soyer dark blue, then # 25 Soyer slight lighter medium blue, then # 23 Soyer lighter still blue - they are all a simular color of blue just darker to lighter. But then into the mix I worked in slightly different blue - like a blue aqua in the lighter transition zone say maybe a tad of #251 Aqua Blue Soyer, or #45 Soyer aqua blue or another lighter green blue as well - that gives more dynamics in the shading.
Then I dried it well and fired it. And then I repeat the whole process of shading drying and firing again and again in the chamber until I build up the color. I shift slightly back towards the darker area of the shaded chamber where the change from color to color happens. Each successive layer is moving the lighter colors back over the darker.
When I reach the desired effect I may fill with the lightest blue or with a tad of clear flux.
Additionally adding bits of fine silver or 24 kt gold foil also adds variation to the shading. Remember many pinks and reds even some purples and others do very poorly directly on silver or silver foil so make sure you choose the right foil for the type color you are working with - DO TESTS!
I hope that this helps!
Warm Regards
Sharon Scalise
Lauren Coe
Beautiful. Absolutely, marvelously, perfect. The colors, the composition, the balance with the metal, the execution is flawless... THIS is what I want to learn how to do.
How DO you get the colors to do that?
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