Name: Painting with Enamel & Lustres
Start: 2026-02-21T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-22T16:00:00+00:00
Location: Craft Central, High Street, FK15 0EE Dunblane, United Kingdom

Painting Enamel & Lustres with Elizabeth Jane Campbell
Level: Intermediate to Advanced – Ideal for those with some prior enamelling experience.
Over the course of two days, you’ll explore the rich and expressive techniques of painting with enamels and lustres to bring colour, pattern, and illustrative detail into your enamel jewellery designs.
Painting on enamel involves mixing finely ground glass with a medium to create a paint-like consistency, which is then applied to a pre-enamelled surface. Each layer is carefully fired in a kiln—hot enough to fuse the glass, but controlled to preserve your design. Once fired, the painted decoration becomes a durable, glassy surface that is waterproof and fade-resistant. Lustres can then be added as a final embellishment, adding a beautiful metallic shimmer to your work.
This is a thoughtful, meditative process that builds colour and depth slowly, requiring precision and patience as you fire between each layer. Throughout the course, you’ll gain hands-on experience with both enamel paints and lustres, experimenting with their effects and learning how to incorporate them into your own jewellery practice.
By the end of the workshop, you’ll leave with a series of test pieces and samples, a deeper understanding of these techniques, and the inspiration to develop your experiments into finished designs.