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More glass stuff
May. 11th, 2015 11:03 pmNow that I have a kiln, glass frit is something I've been looking forward to trying. Frit is basically ground up glass, and comes in a few different 'grit' sizes, from small (but square/jagged) peas all the way to dust powder.
I thought it would be cool to take my love of paper cutting and apply it in a stencil type fashion to glass.
These are just a few things I've tried so far.
I really wasn't sure how they'd work out, as there are SO MANY things to consider when fusing glass together. Temperature, length of firing, grit of frit, base glass, etc. Not to mention that I couldn't find all the colours I wanted to try!
There are frit makers on the market, but it's $80 for what sort of boils down to a boxy, metal mortar and pestle. So I made one myself with $3 worth of metal pipes and a length of rebar! The blue feather was from my own frit. Yay!
So after making these feathers, I tried to think of wtf to do with them now, and I came up with the idea of doing some stencil cats and birds and making a window out of them. They are cooking in the kiln right now! Geez, the hardest part is waiting for the glass to cool down so I can see them!!
I thought it would be cool to take my love of paper cutting and apply it in a stencil type fashion to glass.
These are just a few things I've tried so far.
I really wasn't sure how they'd work out, as there are SO MANY things to consider when fusing glass together. Temperature, length of firing, grit of frit, base glass, etc. Not to mention that I couldn't find all the colours I wanted to try!
There are frit makers on the market, but it's $80 for what sort of boils down to a boxy, metal mortar and pestle. So I made one myself with $3 worth of metal pipes and a length of rebar! The blue feather was from my own frit. Yay!
So after making these feathers, I tried to think of wtf to do with them now, and I came up with the idea of doing some stencil cats and birds and making a window out of them. They are cooking in the kiln right now! Geez, the hardest part is waiting for the glass to cool down so I can see them!!
