As I mentioned in my last blog I am focusing on the fused glass techniques I learned in two of Tanya’s big Bootcamps. In this blog I thought I’d write about fused glass strip construction, I learned it in the first large project bootcamp. Typically when creating fused glass you […]
Last month I focused on fused glass techniques I learned from a Patty Gray class I took. For this month I’m going to focus on some fused glass techniques I learned from Tanya Veit from AAE Glass. I’ve written about Tanya many many times. The first time I met Tanya […]
Valentine’s day is just around the corner and I thought I’d post a few pictures of some fused glass options for Valentines ‘day. As I was looking for pictures of some appropriate fused glass Fused Glass jewelry I ran across an old […]
I’ve been revisiting fused glass techniques from my class with Patty Gray. First I want to tell you a kind of funny story. This was one of my favorite fused glass techniques Patty taught us so it was one of the first ones I redid. I made 2 soap dishes. […]
This month I am focusing on a class I took with Patty Gray. I really enjoyed the class and one of my favor fused glass techniques she taught us is what I like to refer to as windows. When my son was around 16 he was in an AP […]
As you know my blogs for January are focusing on my fused glass class with Patty Gray. As with the other fused glass technique I’ve written about this month I love this technique. Patty calls it jaws and I really like it. It’s fun and easy and I think it’s […]
One of my New Years goals for my fused glass is I have decided to revisit some of my favorite techniques from some of the classes I’ve taken. In Nov 2015, I took a 3 day fusing class with Patty Gray in Denver, Colorado with my good friend Pam. I […]
So last week I got an email from Teresa the winner of the Rockledge ranch arts show. She wanted to chose snaps for her prize, which as you know I don’t have on my websites. So she came by today to chose her prize and she got some additional fused […]
I blog about my good friend, Marilyn, all the time and the different fused glass pieces that I make for her. Well recently I made some custom photo fused glass magnets for her (I made some for me as well). Then this month while I […]
I hope everyone had a fabulous Christmas. I had a great Christmas and was able to spend sometime with my husband and daughter. I also got to speak with my son and I got to spend time with two of my good friends. Yep it was a great Christmas. […]
Sometimes, when I create fused glass jewelry I make a block of glass to cut my pieces from. In metal terms a block of metal is called ingot so I thought I’d steal the term for my glass ingots. Anyway first I fuse various pieces of glass together. I added […]
I have two new fused glass dishes. I made these the same way but I used light colored pebbles in the green one and dark based ones on the red one. I also added some powder printing two the dark one. The green one is pretty shallow and the edges […]
In November I took a painting class with Shelley Long. I finally picked it up today. OMG it’s so beautiful I had to show it too you. It’s 1 inch thick. It’s so beautiful, I just love it. I especially like the aspens! It’s amazing and the firing schedule was […]
I love taking fused glass classes from amazing teachers like Bob Leatherbarrow, Tanya Viet, Amanda Taylor, etc. I love learning their techniques and meeting other glass artists that love fused glass as much as I do. Another thing I like doing is buying their fused glass artwork. This piece is […]
