Its been a while since the last post. There is one more class to attend in this four week class. Here are some examples of the irid on irid process.

The idea is taking two pieces of irid glass, putting the irid sides facing each other. To achieve this, you need to sandblast a design into the irid so the glass will fuse together. Irids and micas will not fuse to each other, the irid coating prevents it.



Top piece taped and dots of glue

Base Glass with Tape

These two images are of my piece in progress. I used a deep blue transparent irid and taped it with masking tape and then cut out a few random piece of tape. On the right is a clear piece of rainbow irid that I also taped and put some glue on as dots.



This picture shows the two pieces of glass after being sandblasted and the masking tape and glue removed and now the two irid surfaces are face to face.

Sandblasted and tape removed ready for the kiln

Here is the piece after it had been full fused and is now ready for slumping.



Full fused ready for slumping


Unfortunately, irid to irid pieces are very hard to photograph, they just don't depict the colors and depth you see with your eyes.

 

 

This piece was created using mica. The mica was added to Glastac and brushed on. Again, the picture really doesn't capture how shiny this gold mica is. It was put in the kiln at 1400 just to get the mica to settle into the glass. I now have added a border around this piece and it's in the kiln now. Can't wait to see what it looks like.