New Christmas Tree Ornaments

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For several years, I have been creating a Holiday Ornament. This year it is a collaborative effort, an Appalachian Warm Glass, LLC design. The ornaments are the same size as pendants. 

We use Bullseye 90 COE glass. The base is clear glass. The red is for the top border and covers the wire hanger. The brown glass is for the base of the tree.

Dichroic glass is broken in a frit maker. The glass is then shifted until it is almost the size of a large piece of glitter. It becomes frit. There are two pieces of dichroic glass before they are made into frit.

I use Bullseye Glastac Gel to glue the glass to the glass. I also cover the tree with glue. I use a toothpick to find shiny pieces and also sprinkle the frit onto the tree.

Two trees decorated with frit. The trees are currently for sale at Heartwood and Arts Depot in Abingdon, Virginia. They are also at the Southwest Virginia Museum in Big Stone Gap, Va. Soon to be in the Charles Harris Library Gallery in Wise, Va. Next weekend, Nov. 18, 19, and 20, they will be available at our Open Studio.

A Long Glass Weekend at Arrowmont

 We arrived at Arrowmont  http://www.arrowmont.org/enriching-lives-through-art in Gatlinburg, Tennessee on Thursday evening. I was taking a glass class with Barbara Cashman from Greensboro, North Carolina.
http://www.custommade.com/by/GlasTile/  I was really intrigued with the idea of using tempered glass and fusing it with other glass. The bowl above is plate glass cracked with a hammer. Really hit the glass hard for it to break. Frit or fine glass like glitter which is compatible to the plate glass is added. First firing is at full fuse and second you slump onto a plate.

 We used Spectrum 96 glass to make sushi plates. Mine is rimmed with frit. We made two of these. We used the Morton system to cut our glass. I cut out the five inches for the bottom and four for the top. The second piece went right over the edge, apparently, it was more than five inches. This also happened to another student.

Freeze and fuse is how these starfish were created. Mix up frit with water and freeze it inside a mold. After an hour in the freezer, take it out and let it stand a bit and then into the kiln it goes.

There are so many possibilities in creating with glass!



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