The bottom two layers of this earring are reactive, which results in what appears to be a brown layer in between them. The top "button," is piece that has been pre-fired.
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| Cyan on the bottom, French vanilla in the middle and pre-fired woodland brown button on the top. This firing was a tack fuse and not a full fuse. |
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| Cyan on the bottom, French vanilla in the middle and pre-fired woodland
brown button on the top. This firing was a tack fuse and not a full
fuse. |
Each individual piece below began with rigid, hard edges and corners. Once the glass pieces go into the kiln, the edges round. Notice in the image below that the cyan corners appear to have pulled upward a little, as well.
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| Cyan on the bottom, French vanilla in the middle and pre-fired woodland
brown button on the top. This firing was a tack fuse and not a full
fuse. |
The buttons on the top that were pre-fired actually began as small squares of glass. When fired the first time, each one pulled into this button shape, taking the smallest form possible when liquid.
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| Cyan on the bottom, French vanilla in the middle and pre-fired woodland
brown button on the top. This firing was a tack fuse and not a full
fuse. |
Just like a soap bubble, glass, when obeys the lays of physics and "tries" to make the smallest shape possible when the surface molecules can move - what a useful law to use when planning glass images!
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| Cyan on the bottom, French vanilla in the middle and pre-fired woodland
brown button on the top. This firing was a tack fuse and not a full
fuse. |
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