2018 Season BEGINS!

 

I have been placing out new work all over the Gallery!

 

It has taken me a week to get all the pieces in place and dust and make ready for the new season!!

 

We are beginning the new season!

It is 2018!

There is a LOT planned!

 

Our first event is April 14 and begins at 11 am.  Brenda DeHaan will visit and bring with her crystals and gems and talk about their powerful connection.  Join us in a warm welcome, please stop by and look at all the new she alone is offering!

And take in what all our artists are presenting.  Our lovely work has fabulous price points already, with a few additional incentives.  THIS day ONLY!

BE SURE TO STOP IN!

 

 

Refreshments are served until 4pm.

 

We also have printed brochures explaining the upcoming planned events.  Which are also on the website:  www.stagecoachplatte.com  check there now for more detailed information!

 

Do NOT wait for signing up to the event that interests you, they are space limited and tend to fill quickly!

Plan to sign up on April 14th if not before!!!

 

April 1 begins the mass sign ups!

 

As a follower of the Stagecoach Gallery you are the individual who wants unique one ~ of a ~ kind

charm!

Come on in to help us celebrate the beginning of spring.  You are sure to not be disappointed!

 

:)



Platter One...Done!

Between these 3 photo's it might be possible that you can get a sense of the final results of this turkey platter.

Glass it difficult to photograph and I can't seem to make my flash turn off...I have done it before but either the feature now won't co-operate, or I am not doing the turn off thing right...so the pictures have some glare.

This side to picture has the least glare....

This is not a decal...the process for vitreous staining and enameling to glass has been explained before on this blog so I will kind of just highlight.

The colors are fine ground glass chips with minerals and ores in the mix and flux as well to help imbed the mixture down into the glass creating new glass with a specific design.

High kiln heat fuses the mixture into the substrate and each color has a specific maturation temperature...too much that color fires out.. the chips remain they are glass

the ores are touchy.

So you need to schedule the different color layers according to temperature.

Yesterday marked the last kiln visit for this platter...

Thank you for stopping in!

Days for Aberdeen Class Seminar Arrive

I arrive in Aberdeen and set up the classroom.

You see along the wall under the windows I set up assembly style.







After a brief lecture about glass in general and about points specific to fusing...the students make a tile.






After much dilemma over kiln issues...no plug after all, for my huge kiln I brought along..a borrowed kiln that essentially wouldn't heat up well...I pushed the little quick fire I brought along to handle the many fuses of the day and here are the students results.
Bails attached and ready to send to them...this about 1/2 of the class projects..at the time the others were in different stages of completion.

All in all I think the students had a great day!

3 other artist involved were
a couple: Nick and Nichole Fisher represented murals
Rocky Hartberg for Story Illustration
Michelle Bacon on Ceramics

Judging workshop with Nathen Cantwell and Emily Williams Wheeler
key note speaker: Brad Bachmeier


We had a full 2 days...it went smoothly and I think everyone teachers included came away with information to ponder.

:)

Prep for Intro-Glass Fusing

I am late late late...posting the process for this class.

This class was given through the Dacotah Prairie Museum in Aberdeen, South Dakota.
April 22-24

For the past 15 years they invite High School students interested
in art to this seminar to learn more on the subject through accomplished artists shown through the museum.


To prepare I made samples of their project.


Cut blanks they worked on decorating with glass powders and frits.






Shows decorated tile before firing in the kiln.








Tiles coming out of the kiln. You will see in another post the students work from that workshop.

The top picture of the necklace was demonstrated to show them where they can take their finished tile.
Glass drilled with holes and jump rings made to fit...created a wearable art piece.

Lady Bug Box

Finished the little feet box birth announcement.

The decorative effect on the solder is little lady bugs.

Aren't they cute!

the bevels added along the sides of a box allow light to enter and illuminate the lid.