ALCHEMY GLASS AND SILVER FOIL PIECES

Are you familiar with the work of Tanya Veit from AAE Glass ... and her webinars presented through Glass Patterns Quarterly? In fact, on the Glass Patterns site, under Glass Expert Webinars, Tanya is repeating her 3 hour "The Pebble Experience" on May 9th. I've seen all her webinars, plus have many of Tanya's DVDs available from AAE Glass. She also has many instructional videos (free) on YouTube. ALSO .... she presents a Saturday night video once a month to subscribers of her blog. She is really a wonderful teacher and just bubbling over with energy! Be prepared, as she talks very fast! You have to be a speed writer.

I made a couple pieces from last month's Saturday night video and fired them yesterday. These were made with Bullseye's alchemy glass (two different colors), along with silver foil, stencils and glass powders. I like them. The two colors of glass were cut into 1/2" strips. Next time I'll use more powder and use solid pieces of glass, rather than strips. Maybe small bowls? More to come ...

Picasso Webinar with Tanya Veit

I have been following Deborah Read's blog http://deborahreadcom.blogspot.com for a long time and am amazed with all the wonderful work she does. And she does it all! She downloaded a Webinar a while back that featured the work of Tanya Veit of AAEGlass.com. I have been wanted to try it, so over the weekend I bought a copy of the webinar through AAE. It's called, "Picasso and Creme Etching Engraving Technique Instruction". The price $59. It has extra project ideas too and am so excited about doing everything! I noticed Tanya will be featuring another Picasso Webinar in December through GlassPatterns.com.

This morning I got out several small pieces of black glass (Bullseye 3mm) and decided to try this project in my little Paragon kiln. The shelf is like 6" x 7" (I'm guessing), but when you are fusing small jewelry pendants, it holds a lot. So onto the black glass you layer and glue dichroic glass pieces with the dichroic side up so they are touching. This is the hardest part. I had odds and ends of all kinds of pieces. And you stay away from patterned and textured dichroic. Then on top you can add (glue) strips and pieces of contrasting colors here and there, again with the dichroic side facing up. Now the reason you glue everything together is that you will fire the pieces upside down on the shelf. That way the dichroic surface will fire flat.

And why do you want the dichroic surface flat? That's the next step. I can't show you until my pieces are fired. Here is a photo of the pieces on the kiln shelf, glued and ready to go. I'm keeping my fingers crossed ... probably won't sleep tonight wondering how they will look in the morning ...

Remember, we have to fire these pieces upside down. Here they are on the shelf ready to be placed in the kiln.

Can't wait to show you the next step!