Here’s what I found about the iridescent glass. When you put dichro on top of it and fuse it, it doesn’t fuse completely because of the iridescence. This worked in that I was able to put masking tape over it and feel where the outline of the body and thorax were so that I could …
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Jun 24
First Beetles
At this point in the class, I decided to just go and buy some more clear glass. If you ever take a glass fusing class, be aware that you will likely use more clear glass than any other color, for capping dichro if nothing else. I hadn’t yet tested the mica pigments yet, so the …
Jun 18
Dragonflies in Amber
This technique was something I kind of made up, because the other students in the class just did their own, straightforward projects. I saw that someone was using mica pigments on her glass work, and I have a bunch of those that I use for mixed media. Naturally, the ones made for glass are expensive. …
Jun 15
Beetles in Amber
I took a fused glass class this spring. I hadn’t been terribly inspired by anything I’d seen in fused glass, but I figured that it was one of the few types of glassworking I hadn’t tried yet, so I ought to give it a go. My first couple of pieces are really ugly. So ugly …