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Click for larger view  Recently I have been experimenting with different kinds of effects
which could be added after an enamel picture is finished. Several
artists regurlarly apply final layers of sprinkled black, or opal
white, and one always covers her finished work with various
transparents. The function of all these practices is to draw the
elements of the picture together.
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Jewelery Enamel on Copper
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One of the most interesting techniques I found was combing. If various
transparents are sifted over a finished image and then a small piece of
comb drawn through with swirling motions, a very lively finish is
created. These fruit pictures illustrate the effect. I did try to apply
a combed layer on the top of each piece of fruit as it was finished,
but
this did not seem to be any more interesting than simply adding a top
combed layer. The only exception is when the background is combed
before
the fruits are applied. Then, when the final application of combing is
fired on, interesting criss-crosses can appear.
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