These are wonderful! I'm a fellow Michiganian, so the agate piece is my favorite. ♡ Please come back and show us your finished cat. It looks awesome, and your friend is going to love it!
You would love it! There is always something new to learn. But it is an expensive and space-consuming hobby. And it requires specific glasses that are not likely in your current supplies. If you are on FB - there are many, many groups that discuss various techniques. You might browse a little...
And from my 2nd kiln, this morning. This one with fully-opaque, streaky glass and leaded frit
Sorry for all the glare. I don't have my photography station set up
From the kiln, this morning. Same technique, but with a clear base and with plain frit (the piece above used semi-opaque base-glass and the frit was leaded)
Thank you. ♡ I will show the others when they are finished, in a little while.
I guess I can explain here, since I think I'm the only Glasser. Having purchased an e-book tutorial, I'm not supposed to explain it to others who might use it, without purchasing the book.
The set-up is done inside...
I'm working on a new technique I recently learned, called "Frit-Stretching". Here is a piece that employs the technique - a substantially heavy, platter-bowl. I have a couple more pieces in my kilns tonight that are more colorful. This one is rather muted. I'm enjoying the technique, but it...
Yes. Internet scrabble - on a smaller board. I only play that and "Wordle". Well.... I guess that's not true. I also sometimes do a puzzle or coloring app when I'm listening to my podcasts.
My DIL requested a soap dish to match her night light. I needed to fit more in the kiln, to justify running it - so made a couple trinket dishes. These were all made with the same frit, but the soap dish's base is white and the trinket dishes' bases are clear. Very different results