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Hot glass, photo edition
Aug. 15th, 2012 05:56 pmHere are the photos of what I made in the glass class.
First, the plain blue bead, part of getting used to using a mandrel. The clear beads with dots on them are from the end of class, and show just how new I am to doing this, given all the unevenness.
PS getting the beads off the mandrells was, for the most part, a bit more work than I expected. I put the mandrels in hot water, which was enough for one bead to be pulled off (and the white lining the hold of the bead is the ceramic lining of the mandrell, which I should dremel out someday, since it should be clear), while for the rest, I used pliers to hold the mandrel while twisting the bead again and again until I could get it off the stick. [Somehow, a plain blue and a clear-with-blue-dots bead seems to have vanished between there and here; I'm hoping I just missed them when packing up this afternoon.]
As described previously, the hearts. Of course, none of mine are as pretty as one of the others I saw there, but I think next time (I hope there will be a next time!) I'll be able to smooth out the rough edges (virtual, of course :-).
I'm sad about the two leaves in the color I liked more breaking in the kiln. And the end of the whole one should be green as well, not clear, but I was playing and not paying as much attention to those details. On the plus side, the loop is decent. (And other than breaking, the other leaves came out well, which is pleasing.)
The orange was my one foray into solid glass color, just because the melting points are different. I'm much more interested in the transparency of glass. And the other blob was playing with using (um, there's a technical term for almost-powdered colored glass, and I'm blanking on it) more than one color, or one color inside clear. The shape is obviously nothing special, but the two-toned effect worked pretty well, and of course, the loop came out better than on some of the hearts. C'est la vie.
First, the plain blue bead, part of getting used to using a mandrel. The clear beads with dots on them are from the end of class, and show just how new I am to doing this, given all the unevenness.
PS getting the beads off the mandrells was, for the most part, a bit more work than I expected. I put the mandrels in hot water, which was enough for one bead to be pulled off (and the white lining the hold of the bead is the ceramic lining of the mandrell, which I should dremel out someday, since it should be clear), while for the rest, I used pliers to hold the mandrel while twisting the bead again and again until I could get it off the stick. [Somehow, a plain blue and a clear-with-blue-dots bead seems to have vanished between there and here; I'm hoping I just missed them when packing up this afternoon.]
As described previously, the hearts. Of course, none of mine are as pretty as one of the others I saw there, but I think next time (I hope there will be a next time!) I'll be able to smooth out the rough edges (virtual, of course :-).
I'm sad about the two leaves in the color I liked more breaking in the kiln. And the end of the whole one should be green as well, not clear, but I was playing and not paying as much attention to those details. On the plus side, the loop is decent. (And other than breaking, the other leaves came out well, which is pleasing.)
The orange was my one foray into solid glass color, just because the melting points are different. I'm much more interested in the transparency of glass. And the other blob was playing with using (um, there's a technical term for almost-powdered colored glass, and I'm blanking on it) more than one color, or one color inside clear. The shape is obviously nothing special, but the two-toned effect worked pretty well, and of course, the loop came out better than on some of the hearts. C'est la vie.