Making fused glass

Posted on September 17, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Craft, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2062, Design, Dichroic, Fine Art, Fused glass, Glass, Jewellery, Wire weaving6 Comments

Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life.

A few years ago I met a fused glass artist who showed me how to work with glass to create jewellery, bowls and other hand made craft pieces. A friend of mine helped mount the glass with wire weaving.

I wish I had learnt more about it so I could experiment more with glass. This piece was made with dichroic glass which gives it a metallic sheen. I made it into a pendant.

The trouble is that I can’t afford my own kiln so I’m limited in making things at workshops. The original glass artist moved away and it took a while to find another one, I’ve been to a couple of workshops with her and really enjoyed it.

I’m interested in doing other crafts too, like ceramics, but again there is a lot of cost involved. But I am a bit of a jack of all trades (master of none?)

I could have chosen a much more important subject to show how I have learnt from experience, but I’m not in the mood to consider a serious subject today.

Glass

Posted on July 2, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Fun, Fused glass, Glass, Necklaces, north east, Wire weaving, WorkshopLeave a comment

A few years ago I went to a fused glass workshop. I made glass cabochons that were then surrounded by wire woven to support them. The result were some amazing and bold necklaces.

The artist that ran the workshop was called Angela Ashton. And my friend Deborah Travis did the wire weaving so the results were really a good collaboration. I found this on Facebook memories and I really wish I could do it again, although Angela moved back up to the North East Coast I did find someone else who does workshops, the only problem now is the cost and I’m sure with the price of fuel these days the process won’t be cheap.

Glass necklaces

Posted on May 18, 2022May 18, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Etruria Industrial museum, For sale, Fused glass, Glass, Pendant, Shop, Wire weavingLeave a comment

I’ve just dropped off my glass necklaces at Etruria Industrial Museum. I hope that people will be impressed with them and I might make a few sales. The museum is about steam and fire, so there is a bit of a link between it and fued glass? I find art and jewellery making is a bit hit and miss. Just because I like it doesn’t mean anyone else will! And no one has much spending money anymore. So even if the would like something they aren’t necessarily going to buy it. Ah well, self belief is important when you’re an artist. X

Glass paperweights

Posted on November 8, 2021December 15, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged change of use., Collected, Colours, Fused glass, Glass, Pattern, WindowledgeLeave a comment

A random collection of glass paperweights that I have bought over several years. I have several more. If I had the money I would have more of them. I love making fused glass pieces but I would not know how to make these. They might be blown into round shapes with metal foil trapped inside them. They are beautiful. They are only around three or four inches, but so intricate.

Glass star

Posted on September 14, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, diamond shape, Fun, Fused glass, Glass, Memory, star shape, Time, Workshop2 Comments

Small pieces of coloured glass embedded in diamond shaped clear glass which is joined at the centre to form a star. This is an example of fused glass which my hubby made at a workshop a couple of years ago. This summer it’s been outside in the garden but I will bring it back in and hang it in a window when the weather starts to get frosty. I don’t know whether it would break in the cold but I would like to keep it safe. Its about the pleasure of making things and the memories of the friendly people who were there that adds to the experience. Made in a group led by Angela Ashton. Glass artist.

Foot in it?

Posted on August 1, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Foot, Fused glass, Jewellery, Longport, Necklaces, Photo, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Waiting room gallery4 Comments

When you take a photo of your work and post it in Instagram… Don’t include your foot! I was trying to take a photo of my necklaces on display at the waiting room gallery at Longport, Stoke-on-Trent. I’m pleased to say I have sold two necklaces and a small painting. It’s taken six months, but now they can allow people in again it might do better. I may arrange to make some more pieces.

I won’t be including my feet!

Hubby’s glass star

Posted on July 31, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Creating, Creativity, Fused glass, Glass, Sunshine, Workshop1 Comment

In amongst the fern leaves. My hubby created this glass star at a workshop a couple of years ago. When the sun is setting behind it the red glow of sunset sometimes lights it up. It reminds me of gum drops caught in jelly. The colours make me happy.

I think we shall book another workshop. I have an idea of us making some new pieces.

I needed chains…

Posted on July 24, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, For sale, Fused glass, Glass, Jewellery, necklace, New, Painting, vibrant, Waiting room gallery2 Comments

I’ve been panicking because I made some new glass pendants but I had no chains or laces to hang them on. In the end I went to our local supermarket and found some plain chains that were reduced a bit in price. As I make one off things I don’t use wholesalers so it’s a bit difficult to just find an appropriate match for the pendants.

I used my business cards to display the pendants. I realise now that my vibrant painting matches the colours on my jewellery.

They will be for sale at the Waiting room gallery in Longport, Stoke-on-Trent.

Glass time

Posted on May 29, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Experiment, Fun, Fused glass, Glass, Learning, Life, looking forward, WorkshopLeave a comment

Today I found someone at a place called Art Glass Lounge where they do glass workshops. I was really pleased because I had wanted to do some more glass pieces and my hubby wanted another go too.

We met a lovely glass artist who was very informative and helpful. Social distancing was used and at the end we bumped elbows. We had a go at grinding the glass to shape it, melting thin glass rods with either a candle or a blow torch to slump it or with the blow torch, fuse it together.

Very interesting and enjoyable.

Gone to a good home

Posted on April 28, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Friend, Fused glass, Glass, Happy, Life, necklace, Wire weaving4 Comments

Just delivered this to my friend. She is really happy with the necklace I made. The others have gone to the Waiting Room gallery in Longport, Stoke-on-Trent. They are having an open day on Saturday along with Cherished Chimneys across the road from there. I like the way it lies flat, the wire weaving looks really neat and the colours look good together.

Mallaband-Brown

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