by Jodi | Bottle Glass, Float (Window) glass, Tools
One of the facts of life about working in glass is cold working. It’s not a lot of fun for very long. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy watching glass become all smooth and clear and gorgeous through all of the stages. I just don’t love it 90 times in...
by Jodi | Float (Window) glass, Inclusions and Additions
Using plaster elements in fused glass is an easy way to add variety to your basic stock of molds and shapes. The little plaster elements are made using a mold, and a mixture of pottery plaster and silica flour in a 1:1 ratio. However, you can also achieve excellent...
by Jodi | Float (Window) glass
Things tend to get creative when you are working with only one color of glass. In my never ending quest to figure out yet another thing I can do with recycled glass, I tried metal inclusions as part of the design. There are a number of metals that you can include,...
by Jodi | Float (Window) glass
Recently we reviewed a couple of ways to use stacked and tack fused layers of recycled glass to create visual interest in our artwork without the use of color. You can use this same stacking technique fired to a full fuse to great, but different, effect. This is a...
by Jodi | Float (Window) glass
When creating glass artwork with recycled glass, color play often isn’t an option. By stacking and tack fusing, you can create visual interest. Using ‘white space’ in conjunction to ‘stack and tack’ gives you a huge variety of options....
by Jodi | Float (Window) glass
Every now and then I get a wild hair and decide to do something big and bold. What better way to test my boundaries than with a gigantic kiln carving? This piece was created for the Nature of Sustainable Art show at Red Butte Garden from a few years ago. The cranes...
