wendyleehearn.com » Glass http://wendyleehearn.com/blog Adventures in Glass and Jewellery Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:09:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Flowers, Daisies, I wish it were Spring. http://wendyleehearn.com/blog/2010/04/flowers-daisies-i-wish-it-were-spring/ http://wendyleehearn.com/blog/2010/04/flowers-daisies-i-wish-it-were-spring/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:09:20 +0000 WendyLee http://wendyleehearn.com/blog/?p=496 I have been very busy making some new pendants and I am very happy with the way they have turned.

Saw pierced sterling silver with a brushed finish and featuring either my dichroic glass cabochons or fused glass cabochons.

Here is a sneak peak of a couple of the pendants.

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I have been playing with the new Gaffa Glass Chalcedony to see if I can some interesting reactions with the glass fusing it as opposed to lampworking with it.

The results were interesting and I got some great colour reactions with the glass. The ones pictured above are my my favourite images and cabochons from the experiments I did.

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I have been playing with the glass again over the break and have made this dimensional art glass pendant. I made pendants of this style a few years ago when I was adding the the surface orbs to the dichroic glass pendants as accents. I thought that I would play with using all art glass to see if the effect was just as interesting.

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Terra

Amoeba

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This pendant has a hole that has been fused into the pendant.

Pendant is currently available in my Etsy store. Wendy Lee on Etsy

Etched Dichroic Glass Pendant

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This is another product that I get students to play with with teaching when teaching images on glass. It is a paper that can be fired at high temperatures between layers of glass. The paper does not burn off or warp and colurs stay bright and vibrant.

The samples of the cabochons below is using the Fusible crinkle paper in pretty mauve colour. The paper looks like crumpled up paper that has been painted and then flattened. I use these 2 examples of the paper so that people get an idea of what it looks like when fused between glass. When people have a visual of what a product will look like its easier for them to then design and create somthing using the paper.

Using this product is very easy it can be used as you would any other paper. So you can cut it using scissors, plain or the fancy serrated scissors. Use paper punchies to punch out interesting shapes to fuse into your work.

As you will see in the above image you can still see the paper, its not like a decal in that the paper burns off and leaves the colour behind. The paper stays there. You also need to leave a border around the edge of the paper otherwise the glass will not fuse correctly.

Its a great product that has many possibilities.

Glassline fusible paper is readily available from Delphi

Glassline fusible paper

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Some new fused Glass cabochons that I have been experimenting with using Silver Powder.

Here is a close up of one of the reactions

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I purchased a couple of different patterns and had a play with them to see the depth in the colour and once again if distortion occurred if fused between 2 layers of glass.

Both pieces were fired on bullseye white. The first one was also capped with clear glass so that it was fused between 2 layers. The colour was a rich intense rusty red. I think by having the piece capped it added to the intensity of the colour. It could also have been because the kiln was fired at a much higher temperature to fuse the layers together that made the colour more intense.
The second piece was just fired on white bullseye sheet glass with no capping. The colour that came out was more a brown colour and was not as rich as if it had been capped.

For a full range of commercially available Sepia waterslide decals checkout this website : Sepia Slides

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This is a lampwork glass bead disc that I made using Moretti Silver Plum. I love how this glass comes out looking like a ceramic raku bead and not at all like glass.

The lampwork bead has a sterling silver core and a ball chain has been added to the bead. As the shape of the bead is not regular and flattish it flips around as you wear it.

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Sterling Silver rings with lampwork glass beads and fused dichroic glass cabochons riveted onto the shank.

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