Virgina woolf portrait -3

3rd application of paint dry and before kiln

Out of the Kiln

After engraving back 'highlight areas'

Virgina woolf portrait -2

The first firing schedule I did was low and the bullseye frit was still raised, Kirstie said I would be able to put it in for a full fuse..which resulted in a smooth finish. To continue on with my mish mash of techniques I applied some of the reusches black over the top in a more drawing style...those are the lines you can see and used Joseph's polish schedule.

 Not sure what is next...I need to study the tonal areas of the photo

Virginia Woolf portrait

I tried the first step of Judith Shaechter's "How to..' starting off of course with not quite the right stuff... to be found here I learned something interesting though..I shall start again tomorrow with the right paint. Deb and I went to the glass supply place in (um).
Float glass (profile sandblasted) with Bullseye fine frit mixed with natural binder...smouged around the glass before firing

After firing

Kiln formed glass with Kirstie Rea - 2

I got up early this morning to bake cup cakes, my turn for the class sweet treat (Kirstie brought banana cake last week).This week was about transforming our designs through different mediums of bullseye flat glass, powder and stringer.
Using combinations of clear and white glass and black powder and rod we experimented with transferring and transforming our images and words to 3 more surfaces. The powder was unusual but exciting to use as you can push, fluff, scrape, pull and scatter in application. The rod was quite minimal and angular (to be expected) but a telling exercise of reduction. Below are pictures of our work pre fusing.

Artist of the Day: Galia Amsel

GALIA AMSEL Spring 5 (2008) and Sundowner.


You can find more of Galia's work at Koru Galleries and Milford Galleries.

New books: Contemporary kiln formed glass

Contemporary kiln formed glass: A world survey / Keith Cummings. (....) : A & C Black, 2009. ISBN: 9780812242324

I had been chasing "Small world by David Lodge" all afternoon as one of Dougie's Literature lecturer's put a book on the reading list the day of the first class...hence there are 600 first year literature students desperate for a book not published in Australia nor massively stocked in Sydney. On my last shot at Kinokinuya (no luck) I was delighted to find in their glass section THIS book. Keith Cummings has already written a very comprehensive work on kiln glass methods but this book differs as it show cases current warm glass artists with some insights into their technique and practice. I'll be getting it ASAP and our library is now aware of it's magnificence. Kirstie Rea our teacher features in it too!  BTW the copy at Kinokinuya is MINE.