Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out had a heart of glass
I recently had the wonderful opportunity to work in Rick & Tracey Bewley’s Art Fusion Studio. With a couple of my Super Good Friends, we spent the evening carefully cutting and placing glass pieces to create our own unique pieces of art.
I, of course, worked on making a T3
Once the pieces are all cut and placed, Tracey used super glue and accelerator to lock the pieces in place until they can be placed in the kiln for fusing. Glass fuses together starting at around 1200° F, when the pieces simply stick together, to as high as 1700° F where the glass melts completely together and flows.
My piece was destined to be a bowl. This would happen by taking the fused piece and placing it on a form in the kiln and heating the glass to a lower temp where it simply gets soft and slumps onto the form.
All in all this was one of the most interesting and enjoyable evenings we have had doing art.