The Creative Enamel Color Class

This class is currently available as a "Self-Paced" Class with no coaching.
A new Coaching Class will be available during Summer, 2021
Please email me for more information

Register Creative Color Class

Would you like to use your enamel ​color
with Control,  Freedom, and  Confidence!

Learn Ricky's  "7 Enamel Layers"

Learn how I create the "Layer Architecture" in all of my enamel artwork.
I've deconstructed all of the different types of layers that I create and combine.
I show you, step by step, how I do this.
I describe what I see and the questions that I ask myself while creating these layers.

Module 1
Enamel Edges

Module 2
Layer Styles

Module 3
Custom Colors

Module 4
Color Gradations

Module 4
Value Gradations

Module 5
Foil Layers

Module 6
Opalescent White

Combine enamel layers to create your new vocabulary using enamel, foils, and wires.
​Color inside of the lines, Color outside of the lines.

After working with you on color gradations, I now realize how to bring out the depth in the enamels so they don’t look like a flat surface."
-Diana A.

Sample Enamel Layer Video Lessons

Opalescent White Layers

Layer Edges

Module 1: Enamel "Edges"

• How do our enamel colors meet one another?
• How do our enamel colors over-lap one another?
• How do I create different types of edges: crisp, feathered, and blended edges?
• How do my enamel edges affect the shapes that I create?

Module 2: Enamel "Layer Styles"

• How does my enamel layer thickness affect the types of "marks" that I can make?
• How can I create different types of layers: even layers, modeled layers, tapered layers, and partial layers?
• How does the style of one layer affect how another layer will appear?
• How can I use different layer styles to create different types of enamel design elements: lines, shapes, patterns, color, and value?

Module 3: "Custom Color" Enamel Layers

• How can I combine enamel layers to create my own colors?
  
• How can I layer transparent, opaque, and opalescent enamel colors?
• How can I mix my different enamel colors together on the same layer?
• How can I darken a color? Can I lighten a color?
  

Module 4: Color Gradation & Value Gradation Layers

• How can i seamlessly blend different colors together to create movement and rhythm?
• How can I blend different values (dark, medium, and light) together to create movement and rhythm?
• What variables will help me to create gradations? color choices, value choices, grain size, layer thickness, edge applications, water.

Module 5: Foil Layers

• How can I use foils to create design elements: lines, shapes, patterns, color, value, and light?
• How can I layer foils in different sequences to create different "light combinations"?
• What variables affect reflected light and transmitted light?
• How can I use foil elements as a focal point?
• How can I use foil elements as a background?
• How can foil elements create movement and rhythm?​

Module 6: Opalescent White Enamel Layers

• How do I prepare, apply, and fire opalescent white enamel layers?
• What types of opalescent white are there and what are their characteristics?
• When and why do I use opalescent white layers? How much and how little?
• How can I use opalescent white enamel to "bridge" two different color areas"?
• How can I use opalescent white enamel to create changes in "light and depth"?
• What is possible when I combine opalescent white layers with other types of enamel layers?