When you look at the pieces I am creating on glass, I am using powder glass mixed with oil that strikes the color and design once it is fired in the kiln to melt it down into the substrate glass.
This is not paint although it looks as if it might be.
It is properly referred to as, staining.
Minerals and ores mixed with powdered/crushed glass, create the color. The color surfaces from different temperatures.
A kiln is used to reach the desired temperature.
The growth of QT is a bit more advanced than the couple, as she is mostly the white color.
The colors as I mentioned are chopped and mixed with oils. Each artists prefers their brand of oil to use and that become determined through their own experimentation.
The style for application has a specific method, however that can also become interpreted to each artist depending on their style and taste.
I explain this because I break from the pack and have a different style than most for applying my stains to the glass.
What I will show you is again, not "painted" but applied.
Chip by chip, drip by drip.
I use different brushes to move the elixir around until I am satisfied, then the oil evaporates off and I fire the powder residue left.
The technical stuff and chemistry and schedules I will leave off the explanation but, know there is more to this process than meets the eye.
A very labor intensive process but worth the results.
In the previous post we saw QT in her first fire in the kiln.
Here she is after many hours of application but, not yet ready for the next kiln visit.
Here she is ready for the next kiln visit.
I hope you are enjoying the process.
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