The Language of Enamel – A Workshop with Ukrainian Enamelist, Oleksii Koval

After the process of preparing and etching 2 large copper plates students will enhance the etched plates with photographs, stencils, volume overlay and waterslide decals and then enamel. One of the etched plates will include a portrait or full figure from a photo the student provides.
After the plates are etched students will cross over into the realm of printmaking where one of the etched copper plates, before enameling and other enhancements, will be printed onto watercolor paper and painted with watercolors.

What you will learn:

How to prepare photographic images for transfer to a copper sheet
Preparation of copper for etching using various etching techniques
After learning about various ways to etch 2 types of etching will be done
Cleaning and preparing etched plates for enameling and other application forms
Printing etched plates on watercolor paper and embellishing the image
Enameling etched plates
Transferring images with decals, stencils and creating overlays with various materials
Biography

Oleksii Koval was born in Kiev, Ukraine. In 1996 he graduated from Republican School of Art and continued his education in the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (2002), Beginning in 2000 he began to work in monumental art and has created approximately 100 pieces in Ukraine and abroad. These are frescoes, mosaics, ornaments and drafts of stained-glass windows. He discovered enameling as his medium at the enamel workshop of Ivan Kyrychenko in 2006 and he immediately realized that this was the technique he was meant to use. To date, Oleksii has had more than 40 solo exhibitions around the world of his large and monumental works in enamel. He began teaching only recently. He came to the US last year as a refugee from the Russian invasion of Ukraine and is now giving master workshops throughout the US to support his stay until he can return home.

Some videos about Oleksii and his work:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zck4UsuYPzA
www.oleksiikoval.com/video

Basics
This workshop is being sponsored by The Crucible’s Enameling Department and is being held in The Crucible’s enamel and jewelry studios which are ADA accessible.

Cost: $975 – includes a materials fee
Fees only refundable if class is cancelled. Payment by credit card or PayPal only.
Maximum enrollment: 10 – registration deadline March 14.
There will be a 1 hour lunch break every day of the workshop.
Workshop preparation information will be emailed to all registrants at least 30 days before the beginning of the workshop..
Coming from outside the Bay Area? Please contact Judy Stone, [email protected], the workshop coordinator for lodging and other information.