Sunday, August 31, 2008
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
A few new projects
These are glass coasters I made for a friend who just bought her first place.
This I made by gluing a paper doily to the glass and sprinkling with ground green glass frit...then removed the doily...addd some dichroic frit and fired at 1,525F.
Then I slumped it at 1,225F.
This I made for a friend in Hawaii who is a LOST fan.
Monday, October 01, 2007
2 bowls in the process for silent auctions
Here are a few pictures to show more of the process of making a fused glass bowl or plate.
Starting with a circle of sheet glass and adding layers of either strips of glass or ground glass frit.
Then firing the first firing to make a flat disc of fused glass and then slumping into a slumping mold for the final shape of a plate or bowl. One of these is for a silent auction at church and the other is for a silent auction for the Anchorage Senior Center.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
This is a plate I made for a choir director who I think is in Arkansas. This was a 12 inch clear circle of glass with stringers for the music bars, orange/yellow and blue and green frit, coarse frit for the notes, liquid glass for the lyrics and little pieces of dichroic glass for the bars dividing the measures. Hopefully you can read the lyrics.
What to do with scraps of glass
These are just a small number of the fused glass barrettes , little heart dishes, spoonrests and soapdishes I made with left over pieces of glass. The little heart dishes I've been giving to my best girl friends
Stuck on stripes
I got stuck on a stripes theme for awhile. I cut strips of glass and laid them ontop of each other on top of a circle of glass I'd cut out.
This plate you can see the beginning of it below in my first post. This was a 12 inch circle of clear glass. Then I cut out strips of glass and layered them on top. Then I added a strip of dichroic glass. I think I made this for my friend Deb in Madison.
This bowl reminds me of grape jolly ranchers. It was also made with strips of glass. This is a sort of verrigated glass with many colors in it.
This little square dish I made for my oldest daughter. "Mister Dog" was one of her favorite books as a little girl. Its all ground glass frit except the "goldenbook binding" which is copper "liquid glass" with black frit on top.
I made three of these "fairy garden" plates. the first one I made was meant to be an underwater scene but somehow it got away from me and seemed more jungle like. It has little curvy strips of glass cut out as well as lots of liquid glass and glass frit.
This plate was made for Melody also. It also got an ominous bubble in the middle. I think that's now three plates ruined with over firing bubbles.
This plate was made for my daughter's sixth grade teacher. It was blue glass for the base and then I cut out pieces and layered them on top...so some parts are three layers thick. I decided not to fuse this to a "full fuse" so it would have some texture/layered effect. Unfortunately I don't think she liked it...but she said her mother loved it.
This is a plate for my friend "Shakes". This is made with glass frit and "Liquid glass" for outline on clear glass. This was before it was fired. This plate also developed a really nasty bubble in it. I was screaming mad. "Shakes" is a 7th grade honors English teacher and I wasn't going to give it to her since it "failed" but I thought maybe she could use it as a teaching example.. if at first you don't succeed....try try again????
This plate was made for my friends Melody and Steve. First I fired the heart shapes using frit in a heart shaped mold. Then I placed these hearts on top of "glass confetti" on top of clear glass. .
This was made for a friend that loves Jack Russell terriers. Hers is named Boo. Well this plate ended up having a boo boo.....I fired it too hot on the fusing and it developed a bubble in the middle. I have made this mistake a few times and it makes me wonder if I'll ever learn from my mistakes.
This is before any firings. Its a clear glass round with white and blue frit and "liquid glass" used for the poles and skis. This ended up being a bowl.
This plate was made with a clear circle and then glass stringers and frit.
This plate was made for no particular reason when I was sorting through my scrap pieces of glass. Because glass is so incredibly expensive to ship to Alaska, I don't throw any away. So I just pretty much threw the scraps on the clear glass and fused it.