fusing

15 10, 2006

Watercolors

2017-10-07T18:12:02-07:00

Took a casting class and in the course of it one of the other students, a gifted metal and jewelry-maker named Carla Fox, started experimenting with tinted frits. When I saw the results I was hooked. Frit tinting is essentially mixing small amounts of deeply colored glass powder (normally opal, i.e., opaque, glass) with crushed clear or neutral-colored base glass. [...]

Watercolors2017-10-07T18:12:02-07:00
15 10, 2006

Five-finger exercise

2016-05-15T13:18:21-07:00

Just got out of Kirstie Rea's class, where we discussed how the medium influences the art, i.e., since glass has transparency, transparency becomes a significant part of the work. It's one of those "duh" statements that seem obvious on the face of it, but have a much deeper meaning when you think on it awhile. Nowhere, however, did we discuss [...]

Five-finger exercise2016-05-15T13:18:21-07:00
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