How to mix glass enamel

This is an example of how to mix glass enamel with a palette knife. I'm using Reusche Glass Pigment and Reusche D1368 Water-Based Medium. The process would be the same for any powdered glass pigment and any other medium regardless of manufacturer. The goal is to thoroughly incorporate the pigment with the medium - wetting it all the way through. I began filming once all dry particles of pigment had been incorporated - you can assume it took me about a minute of gradually adding medium to get the right consistency. This final mixing was done with a fair amount of pressure on the palette knife to force the materials together. Glass pigment doe not dissolve in the medium it merely forms a suspension. At the conclusion of this mixing process, the resulting "paint" is of the proper consistency to use for screen printing. If hand painting, the mixture would need to be further thinned with more medium or the appropriate solvent to get it to flow out of a paintbrush, airbrush or dip pen.