Hit and Miss Decals
May 16th, 2009 WendyLee Posted in Images on Glass, Techniques | No Comments »
Sometimes things do not work the way you want to regardless of the best laid plans.
Opening that kiln door will always lead to suprises, they can be good suprieses or they can be bad ones. Sometimes so bad you want to throw a tantrum.
Working with Ceramic decals on glass can sometimes be a bit hit and miss. Some will work beautifully and others won’t for no apparent reason.
The pig cabochon below is one of those ones that didn’t work. For some reason the colour of the pig leached out and smeared. The decal was fused betweeen two layers of glass. I don;t know why this one didn;t work out when the others in the same run did work. Perhaps it was a slightly inferior decal. Not sure if decals have a shelf life, perhaps it hadn’t been stored properly or was just a bit old.
I wonder if this is what happens to a pig with Swine flu?
The cabochon with the frog decal below is also a miss. The frogs shorts started to smear and the colours are not as vibrant as they should have been. Which is a shame as it such a cute frog.
The stone cottage decal was a hit, it worked perfectly. The colours are lovely, no smearing, no bubbles!
All decals were used in accordance with the manufacturers instructions, except for the minor detail of using them on glass and not ceramics.
You win some and you loose some, but thats part of the excitement and the learning process of working with glass.
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