Dorothy Cockrell

The Editor has not tried these ideas herself, but would be very interested to hear from those enterprising enough to try. Not all the products mentioned will still be available, so modern versions will have to be found. While some of the instructions seem ‘surprising’ and a bit old fashioned, there are ideas which could be modernised with advantages in the present day.

Unfortunately, the journal had almost no colour illustrations until about 1996, so we have no idea what the work described looked like. (To insert one a colour post card had to be printed separately and stuck into each copy by hand!) It would be most interesting if perhaps a really senior member still has test pieces or pictures in their archive.

From Autumn 1986

“You can write or draw on enamel with gold or silver spirit-based lettering pens (Platignum or Japanese makes). After firing the gold markings become black and the silver remains silver or becomes white. At a painting tutorial at West Dean where members were experimenting with these pens, the silver remained silver coloured when fired once in a gas kiln, but went white when fired in the electric kiln or after several firings.

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