Using all transparent frit would have created a very interesting look, as well. The place where the non-transparency is the most noticeable is on the watery layer on the front side of the piece.
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| Subterranean Landscape - Front view |
In the image above, notice the hazy periwinkle over the central portion of the waves. This is where I did not brush the frit granules away from the black stringers, so as it fired, the frit remained on top of them. Comparing the front of the piece to the back shows a different look.
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| Subterranean Landscape - Back view |
On the back side of the same location, the stringers, for the most part, rested on the anchor glass, and therefore there is no periwinkle haze "over" the waves. It is interesting that on all of the stringer pieces, a stray frit granule has managed to get between the stringer and the anchor glass to give the black a somewhat shimmery effect....wonder if I could do that again - it certainly was not planned.
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| Subterranean Landscape - Front view |
The bumpy texture of the large rocks in the image above are much more visually appealing and interesting than the same rock on the back of the piece, as seen below. Not only have the rock lost their texture, they have also lost the streaky pattern characteristic of this type of glass. The movement of the green frit granules around the rocks is also much more noticeable on the back side than the front.....I am not sure this is detrimental to the image, but worth noting when thinking about future projects.
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| Subterranean Landscape - Back view |
The grassy stringers present the same type of issues when comparing front and back. The texture of the grass is appealing on the front, but the pronounced reactive layer between the green and the cyan is distracting.
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| Subterranean Landscape - Front view |
The anchoring of the grass roots in the cyan layer is very visually appealing, as seen on the back side of the image below, but the beauty of the texture of both the grass AND the small rocks is lost.
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| Subterranean Landscape - Back view |
It's a tough choice between front and back - both have wonderful features and distracting features. Once again, it goes back to function. I look forward to making a night-light sized one of these and perhaps a trial one using transparent glasses and frits. I still don't think the transparent glasses are very desirable for night lights.....more experimentation needed.
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| Subterranean Landscape - Back view |
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| Subterranean Landscape - Front view |
When you look at both sides of this tack-fused piece, which do you think is the most visually appealing and why?
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