Step by Step to Scarlet Pleasure

I meet nice individuals with fantastic concepts once I go to Warrandyte Market.  That is such a narrative.

I’m going to share with you the Step-by-step to Scarlet Pleasure.  Listed here are totally different plates that I make.  A stunning buyer got here as much as me and requested me to make her a particular platter as a centrepiece for a particular occasion in her house.   She needed the centre characteristic from Distant Horizons (proven above) and the scarlet out facet as seen in Pink Heiroglyphics:

Pink Heiroglyphics by Jenie Yolland

We mentioned the design additional and one other design was born!  With a view to produce the work I wanted to create the centre sample.  To do that I totally fuse some artwork glass “stringers” right into a sheet of clear artwork glass.

Stringers in deep turquoise

You possibly can see how high-quality the stringers are.  They’re like very leads in pencils.  Stringers can be found in an unlimited variety of colors.  Anyway, I line up the stringers on a transparent piece of glass utilizing graph paper as my information be certain that the stringers are persistently perpendicular .  (I forgot to point out you this step.)

Tack fused stringers on clear glass

I then put the glass into the kiln for a tack fuse.  That’s when the glass doesn’t utterly soften flat into the bottom glass however solely barely melts into it.  You possibly can see that there’s nonetheless some dimension left on the floor of the glass above.

Now that the centre characteristic is completed, I get a full sheet of glass (which involves me 1220mm x 610mm) and lower it all the way down to the dimensions of the work on order.  On this occasion it’s 350mm x 200mm.  I lower utilizing only a common oil stuffed glass cutter, a sq. edged ruler and operating pliers.

Generally the glass comes with an uneven edge (it is because it’s double  machine rolled – considerably like rolling out pastry – extra on this in one other weblog, if requested.

You’ll discover that between the scarlet on the interior edge and the clear there’s a single deep turquoise stringer that was a part of the brand new design.

As soon as this has been washed and dried and reconstructed, this “clean” is put into the kiln to full fuse.  This firing schedule relies upon by yourself kiln.    My full fuse works very well at 766 levels, however different individuals must take their kilns to 804 levels to realize full fuse.  Every one that does this retains a log ebook of what works and what doesn’t of their kilns.  It could rely on the place an merchandise sits within the kiln and many others and many others.

Okay, now you have got a clear dry completed work, however it’s completely FLAT!  This isn’t what the client needed so when I’m 100% pleased with my completed clean – I choose a mildew and put the work onto the ceramic mildew.  The molds are made particularly for artwork glass they usually have tiny holes within the base to let the air escape.  Let me know if you wish to know extra about glass molds.  There are thousands and thousands to select from and you may make your personal with some fabulous new merchandise.

A shelf of molds in my studio 2012

When the glass slumps into the interior form of the mildew.  To do that I put the kiln on to a a lot decrease temperature than for the complete fuse.  The glass simply wants to melt to take the form, it doesn’t want to totally soften to include different items of glass.   In my kiln, I take this solely to about 676 levels and typically lower than that relying on the thickness of the glass and the glass sort.

In order that’s it.  That’s how an thought turns into a contemporary practical object!

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