In July I wrote a post about my fused glass sugar castings. In that post I said I couldn’t attach them to other things. Well, that turned out not to be accurate. I used some of the smaller ones on flower stakes. I really like them. You can still see […]
A few months back I asked my good friend Tracy to cut bears out of special reactive glass (petrified wood and robin’s egg blue) for me. She cut 4 bears out and I fired them. They turned out magnificently. Here they are – aren’t they stunning? I have been struggling […]
I decided to create glass art based on one of my myriad of tutorials. The class I chose is from Sarinda Jones, her curious mondo & patron class – Fused Glass Sugar Casting. I’ve wanted to do this for a while. I love texture and sugar casting has a lot […]
As those who follow me know, I am a retired Air Force Veteran. I love the our National Anthem, the American flag, and of course America. So I thought I’d make pieces of fused glass artwork with my own screens (more to come in the July’s DyK) a few to […]
In the DYK I wrote about my friend Merle and the class with her friends. I also wrote a post how Merle and I did traded glass for one of her beautiful gourds. She also took some glass dots to add to her gourds. Here are some pictures of my […]
One of favorite glasses is petrified wood. I did a post a while back and made some little dishes. It’s reactive glass and changes colors. The bottom four dishes are the ones I made back then. I had Tracy cut some bears out of the petrified wood. Aren’t they beautiful? […]
After making Marilyn’s fused glass aspens I liked them so much I decided to make more. I loved the bears so much that I had Tracy make me some other animals. Here they are, I just love them and can’t tell you which one I liked the most. Which is […]
I love hummingbirds, I find them beautiful and fascinating. So many memories of hummingbirds. The first year I was in Colorado Springs I went to a hummingbird festival and learned so much about them (like their tongue splits and wraps around it’s brain). I also remember the first time I […]
Sometimes I write a post then I change or modify the piece so I like to write a follow-up post. I wrote a post in July about my Colorado pieces. I added decals to the three other smaller ornaments. The other thing is any decal can be added not just […]
I wanted to do a quick updates on some of the fused glass pieces I did in the last few months. First I finished some of the pendants from my fused glass show. The first two are the decal pendants. The two on the left are snaps and the two […]
Another technique I talked about briefly last month in my Newsletter was my Frit mix pieces. My turtle and sea horse turned out beautifully so I made a few more. The first time I fired the bear, deer, and wolf they didn’t fire quite right so I added some more […]
I mentioned in an earlier blog that I am cleaning up my studio. One of the things I had a lot of was glass that I never finished including frit. So I made a several fused glass pendants. These are casted pieces. I had an entire jar of blues and […]
In keeping with my 2019 goals for my fused glass I decided to uses some of my dichroic glass. I have on hand. I learned to etch dichroic glass years ago from Tanya Veit. Back then it was huge, albeit now it’s pretty common but it’s still beautiful and fun. […]
This month I’ve made several new fused glass night lights and I thought I’d show them off. These first ones are made with iridized glass, ironically I made flowers. I also use both switch lights and sensor switch. I love my nightlights they are such pieces of art. These two […]
