Pet portrait of Loki
Using the technique cloisonne enamel makes up the dog portrait part of this pendant. It entails carefully bending pure silver ribbons of wire and fusing them to a pure silver surface with clear enamel. The following layers of enamel are colored and can take up to 30 firings in a kiln. After all the firings are complete the enamel dog or cat portrait gets sanded down so the wires are flush to the glass. The glass enamel pet portrait then gets sanded to a high polish, which gives a gorgeous effect of depth and translucency to the glass enamel. After that the cloisonne enamel jewel is bezel set in a carefully handcrafted sterling silver setting. The technique is quite labor intensive but the results are a magical beautiful piece of finely handcrafted art jewelry.
The photo of Loki I worked from to create this pet portrait.
Loki pet portrait on.
Cloisonne enamel pet portrait- Webster
Using the technique cloisonne enamel makes up the dog portrait part of this pendant. It entails carefully bending pure silver ribbons of wire and fusing them to a pure silver surface with clear enamel. The following layers of enamel are colored and can take up to 30 firings in a kiln. After all the firings are complete the enamel dog or cat portrait gets sanded down so the wires are flush to the glass. The glass enamel pet portrait then gets sanded to a high polish, which gives a gorgeous effect of depth and translucency to the glass enamel. After that the cloisonne enamel jewel is bezel set in a carefully handcrafted sterling silver setting. The technique is quite labor intensive but the results are a magical beautiful piece of finely handcrafted art jewelry.