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Louise Krampien has done it again! She created a wonderful class that I just completed yesterday all about how to create a relief print in glass. It was a fun and interesting three and a half day class at the Bullseye Resource Center in San Francisco. The image to the left is of the sales…
One last quick post about the backsplash tiles. The tile installation was completed last week and they look quite pretty behind my bathroom sink, even if I do say so myself. For those of you who might want to do a tile installation of this type yourself, I’d like to share a few tips. First,…
These are the two finished 12″ tiles for the downstairs bathroom backsplash. Whew! At some point, I got to believing that these backsplash tiles would never turn out properly. I’m very glad that they are completed and will be installed in the bathroom tomorrow. I need to make a trip to the hardware store today…
This past week I had another go at the 12″ backsplash tile for the downstairs guest bathroom. This time the tile turned out very well – no splits or breaks, in spite of a few bubbles forming. I was able to refire it a second time without splitting or breaking it this time. (You can…
The last project of the class was creating a decal transfer. We again used the thicker glue-like medium to mix our enamels with so that the first layer of the transfer would dry before we printed the second layer on top. One of the interesting things about this project was that we used a piece…
Now we are up to Day 3 of the course and a fairly different method of printing. We used the same enamel colors (shown on the left), but changed the medium we were mixing them into. The first medium was very oily (it’s in the clear container all the way to the left in the…
And now we come to the main event, the reason why I was taking this class in the first place – the layered block project! Woo Hoo! As I said in the first post in this series, I took this class because I wanted to make a series of red rock tiles and I was…
The beauty and uniqueness of art glass tiles has a long and storied history. Artisans in Greece, Persia, and India began experimenting with glass tiles as early as the 3rd Century BC. The process was a laborious one, as the artisans struggled to find a suitable way to melt the glass for shaping and anneal,…
Fused glass consists of pieces of colored and clear sheet glass that are placed into and then heated in a special kiln. Once the glass pieces reach the proper temperature, they fuse together to look like one piece of glass. Then they are placed onto a mold and heated again so that they take on…
I had a few adventures along the way as I made two sets of dichroic fused glass tiles to be used as decorations in the lids of some wooden boxes that I bought. A while back, one of my suppliers was running a sale on accessories and I picked up four each of two sizes…
