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

Workshop with Joseph Cavalieri Part 2

In this part of the process Joseph showed us one on one; how to edge the glass with copper foil. The three plates were stacked and soldered together. We added gal wire as hooks. I felt so clumsy with the soldering iron but I guess, as with most things you get the knack with practice.

So here we have..two plates copper foiled, the whole construction and Deb and Joseph.

Workshop with Stained glass artist Joseph Cavalieri

Joseph managed to interrupt the feasting to start his workshop. This project is a multilayered glass painting excersise. The paint used drys extremely quickly allowing you to scrape paint off to create effects as well as painting on. Joseph showed us  how to use the atomizer. The possibilities are endless, and we were only using black paint. The pieces go in the kiln tomorrow.