Fused Glass Vitrigraph Class

Back in March one of my customers asked me if I could teach her how to pull vitrigraph. I love making vitrigraph so I had no problem teaching a basic vitrigraph class. The main reason is people are a bit scared to touch molten glass – I don’t understand why – LOL. First, I wanted to show her what you can do with vitrigraph, cane, and murrine.

I wanted to show her what tools (pots, hemostats, cutters, gloves, etc). We talked about which are my favorite gloves and pots.

Because Janice was coming over at a certain time and I didn’t want her to wait, and I didn’t want it to it come to fast I did a test run to see how long the pot takes to be ready to pull (1.5 hrs) and how long it took me to pull (1 hr). I use a lot of green, so I decided on green. additionally, I like my green extremely then for branches and stems.

I looked through my available vitrigraph and I don’t have a lot of red so I wanted to build her a red pot but I also wanted her to be able to make twisties, so I put whit in as well. It was a great pot.

I wanted to give Janice plenty of vitrigraph to choose from, so I got out all my 96 vitrigraph. She could purchase as much as she wanted. She lives in Arizona, so she didn’t choose much.

Here is Janice pulling vitrigraph. She did a great job. It’s therapeutic to me and to be honest a cool – pulling hot liquid glass from a kiln.

Some of the techniques I showed her is thin, bulbs, curvy, cane, twist, springs, etc. Below you can see the green and red (which she pulled).

I also wanted to have her build a pot. Since the first 2 pots were strips standing up, I wanted to do layers. I’m lazy so I don’t like to cut 35 circles of different sizes we did it the way below. Obviously, we didn’t pull it while she was here, but we did get it all ready while she was here.

Janice also brought this soap dish that had massive devit and asked me how to fix it. There are 3 ways to fix devit 1- sandblast, 2- super spray, and 3- powder. I wanted her to be able to take it with her so we sandblasted it. I showed her how to do that. Then we talked about how to slump it – which is dependent on if she wants it shiny or mate.

If you would like to take a class. 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). ** Vitrigraph class maximum is 2. Here is the pull from the pot that Janice and I built.

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Keeping my kilns warm,

Karen