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Fish wall art
In float glass - the 'bones' were cut first, coloured and fused. The background was created and then the bones placed in position and tack fused.
Candle - Float Glass
Segments cut individually, placed together with a centre piece to seal, coloured and fused. Whole was then draped on mould and refusd to lower temperature adn glass allowed to take shape..
Candle holder
Segments cut individually, placed together with a centre piece to seal, coloured and fused. Whole was then draped on mould and refusd to lower temperature adn glass allowed to take shape..
Clear bullseye in front of coloured band
With the clocks I wanted the curve of the mold to be sufficient to ensure that the clock stands safely upright without additional support. I broke a few pieces early on in the drilling of the hole for the mechanism until I realised that needed to drill under water (the drill not me!)
Alternative clock design
In this case the clock face was glued to outside surface.
Candle holder
Segments cut individually, placed together with a centre piece to seal, coloured and fused. Whole was then draped on mould and refusd to lower temperature adn glass allowed to take shape..
Coasters
Take a fused glass course and the first things you will be making are coasters. Straight pieces of glass - easy to cut straight, tucked or glued against each other and then covered with a clear sheet and fully fused. The difficultly is all about the colour combinations as the glass colour does not always stay the same - sometimes it is wildly different when fused.
Dishes
After coasters, low profile dishes are quite easy - the difference being that after the fusing, the sheet is placed in a shallow mould and refused to take the shape of the mould. You need fireproof paper to stop glass sticking.
Blow up of previous dish
The texture is determined by the nature of the material used to stop the glass sticking to the mould.
Experiment in float glass
This was a series of many shaped pieces of float glass with changing sections of colour and then fused together. Not particularly effective although it makes a good paperweight
Dolphin
Here I made a mould using a carved simple image which was fired separately. Coloured float glass was then crushed and poured into the mould and the whole thing fired. It was intended as a decoration for a larger piece.
Wall Art
In float glass - seaside theme. Glass was broken and crushed and added to some cut sheet glass and then fused. No front sheet was added to give texture.
Wall art
I had lots of thin pieces of coloured glass and arranged them on a piece of bullseye sheet glass.
Wall Art
Spare pieces of green bullseye added inside curved cut pieces and fused
Candle holder
Segments cut individually, placed together with a centre piece to seal, coloured and fused. Whole was then draped on mould and refusd to lower temperature adn glass allowed to take shape..
Candle holder
Segments cut individually, placed together with a centre piece to seal, coloured and fused. Whole was then draped on mould and refusd to lower temperature adn glass allowed to take shape..
Coaster blue with bubbles
The very thin pieces of blue glass are called stringers and were position and glued between two pieces of clear bullseye glass. The bubbles - see next image were formed naturally as the fusing happened quickly before all of the air was expelled by the heat
Coaster blue bubble detail
Dishes
This time with float glass and coloured frit
Open lattice
Long thin pieces of coloured glass were cut and arranged flat in an open lattice. After teck fusing it was then draped over a shallow mould and refused.
Flat large coaster
This is an example of how the colours can change unexpectedly - not inteh end a good combination
Leaf dish
Real leaves were used to create moulds.
Large dish
The coloured darkened too much but it is still a fuinctional dish!
Shallow dish
Stringers were sandwiched between two sheets of 3mm bullseye glass
Pate de Verre
This was my attempt to replicate one of the techniques used by teh romans. I turned a mould in wood and then used that to create a plaster negative mould. Once that had been fired I crushed coloured float glass and then mixed with glue and pushed it against the side of the mould - fillign the centre with more plaster.
Various glass projects
Each one is described briefly - click on image.
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