Hello Arty Folks
I attended a Large Scale
Enameling workshop conducted by Kana Lomror (with whom I have been undergoing
an advance course in metal enameling) at Kharghar, India. It was held sometime end of Oct
2012 and I guess the next one will be in Jan 2013
The workshop was an opportunity
for artists to spend around 6/7 days lost in creativity. We had a mix of participants,
some who had come in for the 2nd or 3rd time. Some for
the first time like me but were not new to the medium and some absolutely first
timers trying out enameling on metal for the first time that too on a large
scale. It was a great mix and made a few new friends. I shared my space with
Shruti Dev who happened to my Silver Art Clay teacher a year back and we had a
great time. There were some amazing work that the participants have worked on
and I am sure Kana Lomror will upload soon. But here is what I made and I am
glad I could carry forward my intuitive style of painting that I finally rediscovered
believed and held on to. It’s a great medium for a lot of artists to try out
and work on. I love making enameled jewelry and small artworks on a regular
basis as that’s the size of my Kiln and I usually work on Copper. Here at the
JSW work shop I decided to work on Coated Steel as it does react differently
than copper and I wanted to spend more time enameling than on the cleaning and
beating and texturing of copper which I already had explored. I must say metal
enameling is forgiving to a certain extent and gives you some lovely accidental
effects that you will fall in love with but cant expect to repeat itself. So
it’s a self discovery each time you fire you wait for it to cool. Kana Lomror
has managed to master and tame the medium to a large extent thanks to hours of
practice so it’s a pleasure. I think the next workshop will be held in Jan 2013
so if any one is interested hop on to his FB page and write to him.
Its a hot sunny afternoon. - 10"x12"
Sunset at the workshop. We used to witness a lovely sunset from out workshop venue and it just decided to walk right into the painting. The symbol in black is a spiral that follow me in my paintings a lot. 12"x12"
Witnessing : The universe is inside me. Notice the crest moon instead of a nose ring, the sublime sunset on the right cheek. Its almost a twilight like effect below the nose. Sun setting and the moon rising. The beautiful third eye extending upwards. This one is my favorite. 18"x18"
6 comments:
Wow, Prerna, I am blown away by this! So beautiful, and I imagine a tricky medium to work with! Your style shows through, and each piece is layered with meaning. I love the spirit shown in your artwork.
Thank you so much Amy. Yes it was a meaningful workshop for me. :)
Sounds like that enamel class was a lot of fun. I've done this too, but many years ago. I really liked the medium. Following you now Prerna.
Yes Coleen, It was fun. :) Yes the medium is great. Love it just that I don't manage to work on it regularly. :(
Hi, Prerna - Hey! We have a Jindal Steelworks in my town -- Baytown, Texas, USA. Sure wish they would host a workshop here, too! winkwink Your metal canvases are gorgeous, xoxo.
Wow small world. They have a learning center kind of place here. And they have a Art India chapter by Sangita Jindal. Hope there is a course there soon. You will love it.
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