It’s been a while, but I’ve finally broken my string of project disasters with the fused glass. To celebrate, I’ve made a small piece for my mother’s birthday (shhhhhhhh… don’t tell her!). It’s just a little trivet with an abstract flower-style pattern. Pictures after the jump.
After a bit of a hiatus with the glass fusing (I’ve been super busy lately and not much motivated to hang around the joint while I wait for glass to melt), I decided to make a new bowl. This one started as a simple octagon of Bullseye tekta, to which I added an octagon and a border of iridescent glass. I tack-fused the whole thing and then finished up the slump today.
After my attempt at fusing gold leaf failed miserably, I decided to try again: this time without any adhesive. I had a fair amount of scrap tekta lying about the place (as one does) and decided to try a number of different types of metal inclusions: gold leaf, silver leaf, aluminum foil, and copper leaf. I pretty much knew what the copper leaf would do, since I’ve used it before, but here are the results.
So, sometimes things don’t always work the way you want. I wanted to experiment with gold leaf as an inclusion, so I bought some gold leaf (surprisingly inexpensive stuff, by the way… gold leaf is
Well, live and learn, eh? I’ll try it again without the adhesive and see what happens.
I’ve finished the tiled star piece. I used a metal slumping form (otherwise known as a cheap stainless steel mixing bowl) to slump the dish into a general bowl shape.
It’s been a while since I could spend time in my glass shop, but I did get a new toy recently I had to try. My new toy is basically a jig to make it easy for me to cut regular polygons. To experiment with it, I decided to cut a whole mess of diamonds and to try to make a bowl using a tile pattern (like the checkerboard dish, only not so tedious to cut). Here’s the current state of the project.
My father likes kaleidoscopes and has actually made a few. I thought it might be interesting to try to make some objective disks for them. Here are my first two tries.
I have a new piece. I wanted to play with inclusions a bit (that’s when you include something other than glass between the glass pieces). In this one, I put copper leaf in between two pieces of clear glass.
Wow… first comment! Amy, you win the prize!
