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Category: Technical Articles 1999

Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss” was the title for the themed exhibition for Conference 1999

Lesley Miller

If you are a comparative beginner and feel that "The Kiss" looks rather complicated, there are plenty of ways round the problem without having to do endless, boring tests. Adapt part of the picture, or design something which either combines the different techniques which are new to you or allows you to try them out separately. For example, make an enamelled pendant or dish using the patterning of the golden clothes as a starting off point.

For the hair and other dark areas and black lines etc. try using the painting, underglaze and liquid flux techniques. For the texturing on the clothing try sgraffito through liquid flux at the first firing, or through very thinly sifted opalescent yellow or soft white in final firings. For the flowers etc. try applying tiny quantities of mainly opaque enamels over, or leave clear. For faces, etc. try underglazes (outlines, eyebrows, etc.) direct on the copper with flux or pale yellow transparent over: then (in the final two low firings) a very thin, wet stencilled layer of opalescent, followed by painted detail (lips, etc.) in the final firing.

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