I've been around glass my whole life. Both my father and grandfather were stained glass artisans. In 2002 I started working with stained glass. In 2009 I started glass fusing. My blog is mostly about my journey in glass, with a sprinkling of other things thrown in.
Below are before and after photos of some part sheets I made using powdered glass. For two of the sheets I used some keys placed on the glass as a stencil. For the other sheet I used a razor blade to “cut” in the design. I am looking forward to using these in some future…
More part sheets in the kiln today. I first experimented with part sheets back in February of this year. You can read about it here: Experimenting with Fused Glass Part Sheet. I used the part sheets to make some great unique pieces. I knew that this was a technique I would definitely be trying again….
I recently came across a young man, Chris Pittard, who is an up and coming glass artist particularly in the area of blown glass. Like many glass artists, it was a glass demonstration that he saw that ignited his own fire – no pun intended! He has been blowing glass for two years now. At…
… try, try, try again. That is exactly what happened to this fused glass piece. The first step in making a fused glass dish is to take pieces of glass and place them on a shelf in the kiln and fully fuse the pieces to make a single flat piece of glass. In this process…
I am back from Glass Craft and Bead Expo 2013 in Las Vegas. I took a class called Two Intense Days of Something Different with Roz Stanton and Debbie Patana. It was indeed an intense two days. Roz and Debbie are enthusiastic teachers and love sharing their knowledge. The picture shows the projects we worked…
