Just a few pictures of recent work

Just a few pictures of some of the things I've been working on.

Kaleidoscope Sunset

Detail

The Kaleidoscope was created from a wedge type pattern bar which was cut on the tile saw and assembled. I finished the piece using a technique of strip construction. The glass is cut into strips and then stand them on edge and fuse them together.

Fiesta

Detail

The three windows in Fiesta started out as sheet glass which I decorated with stringers (long thin pieces of glass), frit (ground glass) and confetti (very thin pieces) glass. It was fused, cut into strips, assembled and fused again to form a block of glass that was again cut on the tile saw and inserted between sheet glass.

Glass before it went into the kiln

Fully fused

This piece was created using a technique that was developed by David Alcala. I took a 2 hour class from a local studio and learned the basics to create a landscape out of glass frit which is finely ground glass.

And last, here are three pattern bars. They don't look like much right now but they will be cut on the tile saw and assembled to make a pattern which will be used as a design element in 3 different projects.