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May

One More AE Glass Piece

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Patte's piece after firing

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Patte Kayne creating her hot glass piece

Here is Patte Kayne creating her glass piece. She is getting to be a veteran glass artist! This is her third or fourth piece she has created. Be sure to check out Patte’s blog sistersoftheart.blogspot.com as she has some cool stuff there.

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May

Hot Glass Night February 2009 AE

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Ellen Banzaca creating her glass piece

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Ellen's piece after firing

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Clare Majorossy's piece before firing

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Paula Bagwell's piece before firing

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Judy McDonald's glass before firing

As you can see I haven’t quite figured out how to line up these photos but you get the idea. Everyone used their inate creative abilities to “play in the glass” and a great time was had by all.

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May

Shaded Wash Fruit Technique February 2009 AE

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Paula Bagwell

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Ellen Banzaca

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[/caption]Are you just “Too Impressed” with the skill these students show! I certainly was! Each of their personalities came through with the intensity of their colors. They were also painting on an uneven surface – I wanted to add a bit of a challenge for them! All painting is done in acrylics.

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Mar

More AE Pics From February 09

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Projects from February 09

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Mar

Glass Class

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I will begin to add some of the art work created by my students during the Art Experiences. Let’s start with the fused/hot glass class from the recent February class. Judy looks on as SJ explains different techniques to Jennifer, my daughter, and Heather who is my niece and my assistant. We gave each student two pieces of ordinary window glass, ground up glass in varying chunk sizes called frit, a variety of glass colors, inclusions such as copper wire and let them just play!

Judy, Jennifer, SJ and Heather

Jennifer’s piece has two layers of glass, with copper wire inclusions between the layers and glass color fused between the layers and on the top layer. I use my old ceramic kiln that uses cones to fire the smaller pieces like this, for larger panels such as those shown under Magazines we use SJ’s larger, digital kiln.