| Hot Glass |
| Lately, Deb and I have also begun working with hot glass. We make lampwork beads and fuse glass in a kiln. We are both very much amateurs at this stuff. We are still experimenting with this new (to us) media. |
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| The two photo's on the left are of pendants that I made. The pendants on the right were made by Debbie. I did the silver work on all the pendants. These pendants were made with what is known as "frit". Frit is ground up glass that is not quite as fine as powder. The frit was sprinkled on the base layer of glass and then covered with a clear piece of glass and fired in the kiln to 1500F or what is known as a "full fuse" where all the layers of glass melt and become a single solid piece. |
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| This is my first experiment with a product known as Glassline Pens. They are very finely ground glass in a liquid media. You draw, paint, or airbrush it onto the glass, let dry, and fire in the kiln to 1500F. The glass powder fuses together and becomes part of the base glass. In the experiment I covered the base layer with a clear layer, sandwiching the glassline between them. I let the kiln heat up too quickly and, as you can see, I got some bubbles trapped. |
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