Specialist Skills: Glass

Glass fuse was pretty easy but can take quite a bit of time to do. To fuse glass you just have to carefully cut and layer your glass to be baked in the kiln. Glass can be full fused or tack fused which doesnt fully melt the glass and can leave you with a textured effect.

 

This glass wasnt originally supposed to be orange but the colour changed in the kiln, i think it actually looks pretty good against the blue.

 

 

You cant see it properly in the photo but i used lots of pearlised  glass

 

This piece was made using glass crystals and powder and put in the kiln on a tack fuse, it really reminded me of the petri dishes ive been looking at and i was inspired to try and make a petri dish looking piece

 

  

I tried my best to cut a smoothe circle of glass and used the thin shards and crystals to get the petri dish look. I though the edges might smooth out in the kiln but not really, i still think the effect worked well the little crystals look like paint splatters.