December Private Dishes, Earrings, & Dichroic Fused Glass Class

I held a private fused glass class for a wonderful group of ladies. It was quite a variety of techniques and projects. I had the liability forms out as always and because I just completed my Fused Glass home show the ladies had a lot of free fused glass options to choose from (each person got to choose 1 free gift)

Here are pictures of my studio and some of the supplies available to students including vitrigraph, murine, millefiori, etc. Of course, lots of coldworking equipment available for the students to use.

There were 4 students and two wanted to make jewelry (earrings and pendants) so in addition to the above supplies I also had dichroic glass available: pattern & textured clear as well as textured, pattern, and plain dichroic on black glass. I also made several samples so they can see how dichroic fires.

Barb made 3 pair of dichroic fused glass dangle earrings. They all turned out beautiful. However, if you look closely, I didn’t pay close attention and the blue ones one of the earrings the dichroic is up and the other it’s down. Clear dichroic is very tricky and easy to mistake up or down. I gave her the option of me making a new one, just let me know which she preferred.

Michelle made two 3×3 fused glass dishes. If you see the bottom row you can see the inspirational pieces that Michelle used to make her pieces. Isn’t the snowman adorable?

Paula made fused glass dichroic pendant and earring set. I just love it. She did a fabulous job in creating her piece. In case you didn’t know dichroic means di – 2 and chroic – colors. Thats why if you look at the pictures it looks so different. Hold the dichroic or jewelry at an angle and you can see the 2nd color. Additionally, because of the great firing schedule there is still texture in her pieces.

Jennifer loves pink and every time she comes for a class, she makes pink pieces. In case you didn’t know both pink and purple glass is made with gold so it’s pretty expensive. BTW the piece on the left had some devitrification that I didn’t like so I sandblasted it before slumping – I love the satin appearance. Her pieces are beautiful.

As a thank you for setting up the class I gave her an extra free gift, it’s a pink drink stirrer. I made several and gave her a choice, which one do you think she chose?

As I have done for all classes in December, I gave them the option of creating an extra fused glass gift. The two on the left is inside and the two on the right are on top. You can see 2 were pendants and 2 were made into magnets. They seemed to like getting to make a new piece with different techniques.

In addition to making the pink fused glass stirrers I also made 2 extra pair of earrings to add to my inventory. Aren’t they pretty.

Additionally, I added a decal to one of my cabochons and made it into a pendant/broach. I also made 2 dichroic snaps and a pendant. Aren’t they all beautiful!

As a great surprise both Jennifer and Paul bought some of my fused glass artwork. This was a surprise and it means so much to me. I love teaching and I really love it when people buy the fused glass artwork that I make. Thank you, Jennifer and Paula, for buying some of my fused glass artwork.

Please let me know (elegantfusedglass@gmail.com) if you have any questions or would like to have a private fused glass class all you need is 3 people to create a class (maximum of 5). I love teaching fused glass classes. It’s so rewarding when my students do such a fabulous job creating fused glass.

If you would like to see more of my fused glass work, please refer to my website Elegant Fused Glass by Karen. If you get a chance, check out all my site and my Elegant Fused Glass by Karen YouTube. If you would like to stay abreast of what I’m up-to check out our newsletter. If you’d like to take a class, please check out the information on my site about my classes.  It is published the last day of each month.

Keeping my kilns warm,

Karen

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