Monday 10 September 2018

simple fused mushrooms


small fused mushroom pieces - simple design.

Small red triangles on top of white/vanilla rectangles. 

Dots are white enamel glass paint, and added millefiori on the top piece.

Monday 6 August 2018

Shoal of Fish


 Before firing - using little shards and cut pieces


This was painted with black glass enamel paint. Allow the pain to dry then decorated with white enamel paint.
Small millifiori were added.

Tuesday 26 June 2018

fishes



this is a before and after for my Fish.
They are fun to make, as you can use up lots of your 'bits' that you're 
not too sure what to do with.

The pieces are placed on a clear glass fish-shaped base - cut from clear glass, and fired in the Microwave - usually on Medium or Medium High.
Watch them carefully, though, they can completely splat out if you fire them for too long.

Thursday 21 June 2018

mosaic effect with glass bits


I was trying to achieve a mosaic/crushed china effect (sort of) and this is how it came out ..........


I fired it on High (in the microwave kiln) - carefully! until it was fused to where
I wanted it to be.  You do have to keep watching pieces, as
I've found the microwave kiln to be a little 'hit and miss' - you do tend to have to watch things,
if you want to be precious with them.

Monday 4 June 2018

Little Bird (stages)


Strips (coe90) tac'd together


fused 


extra unwanted bits cut, little beak and tiny black eye and feet added then refired

Wednesday 23 May 2018

Sunday 20 May 2018

Buttons, Earrings and Studs

gold dichroic on black

silver dichroic on black

clear glass with dichroic squares



these are millefiori  fused together.  If you fuse them with other glass you may have in your stash,
and  dont know the Coe numbers, they may not  be compatible eg. Coe 90 with Coe 96,
they may well crack your fused piece.  
Sometimes this doesn't happen immediately, but may well do at some stage later.

Saturday 10 March 2018

going with what you've got!

 These were 3 broken up shards, re-fired, - think they came out quite prettily. 

This was meant to be a skeleton - not quite right, but liked the way it came out.
 
 This was two pieces which I fired together to make the fish.  Unfortunately it cracked and gave the fish a sort of strange expression! - but I love the colours - will try again!
I think one of the problems (though not always a problem) with the Microwave Kilns is that they are a bit unpredictable, and sometimes you have to just go with what you've got!

Saturday 24 February 2018

'Splatting'



 

 



Basically - cut thin rectangles, (1/4" - 1/2" width : length to choice) -  place in a star shape. Put small pieces on the ends, so they splay out a little when fired. Place a central piece, which holds them all together.

Dichroic Glass

There is a beautiful selection of dichroic glass which make wonderful pendants. I usually use Warm Glass ....... https://warm-glass.co.uk/...