Alicyn Drew Fused glass

I was recently commissioned to do a bowl for a favorite client of mine. Suzanne always asks for pieces that I would have designed myself if I had just thought of it. This piece had 3 criteria, the colors were brown, red and cream and her friend used to be in the Peace Corp in Africa.

I don't really know African art so I did a little research and decided to go with patterns. I hope you like the piece, I had a lot of fun making it and I learned a lot making it

 A top view of the bowl

 The bottom of the bowl

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Last Feb Mark and I travelled to Vieques a little island off of the coast of Puerto Rico. It's a great little island, we've been several times but this was the first trip that we actually made it to the black sand beach. We were staying at Hector's by the Sea and from there you can walk to the black sand beach. Once we got there I grabbed a small amount of black sand to see what I could do with it.

 I added it to some dichroic glass and made a pendant that is really pretty. I sent the pendant to the inn keeper because she really loves that beach and her little island. My thought was that she could always have a piece of her beach with her where ever she went.

This got me thinking, "HEY, I can do this with any sand." Soooooo if you read my blog and you have a special place that you'd like to have a memory of, let me know. Get me a little sand (a teaspoon is enough) and I can encapsulate it into a pendant.

This pendant is in ocean colors, but I'm planning to try an Earthy one too. We just got back from a trip to Colorado and visited the Great Sand Dune National Park where I snagged a tiny bit of sand. I think that would go well in a red pendant, so we'll see how that comes out.

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I've been working on this piece for a long time, now I need to figure out what to name it. It's a direction I've been wanting to go in for awhile. The base was made seperately from the top, then fused together in the kiln in a seperate firing. Took a few kiln firings to get it right, I'm excited about it, will be doing more of these.

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I was commissioned to make two bracelet sets, one in blue and silver and the other with red with black and gold. The picture of the red one looks kind of brown but it's actually very bright red.

I'm very happy with how these came out even though they were a lot of work, they were fun and I learned a lot. I'll probably be making more of these guys as I think I could do some other designs that will be fun and stylish.

Happy Holidays everyone!!!!

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I just entered a juried show with a magical theme. Wish me luck in being accepted

I entered the following pieces;

Dumbledore's Pensieve, painted in runes, the memories are painted in a white gold paint containing precious metals

The next piece is called Water Spirits, it's aqua iridized glass with dichroic glass, I wanted bubbles and a very aquatic look to this piece. Love the color

Last the Scrying bowl, the inside is polished black glass, the outside swirling iridized black glass sitting in a metal stand so you can see the bottom.

The theme of this show was just too fun to pass up, now lets hope I get in. I'll be posting my progress

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I love how this bowl came out, it was commissioned by a client that wanted something in cobalt blue and artsy. It's about 12" round, the irid is carved into to create clear chanels of glass to create interesting reflections under the bowl.

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This is the platter I made for Rachel's birthday (my co-worker), it's a 12" round. There is a black base (hard to see with the dark background. The design is done with glass bits and the edge design is slices of a pattern bar. She really liked her present, she bakes a lot so can use this as a serving dish.

I'm excited because I finally have a firing schedule for pieces like this that allows two large pieces of glass to fuse with no bumps or bubbles within the glass. This is very exciting to me, it's been a challenge to get the glass this smooth, it took a 12 hour kiln cycle just to get the pieces to fuse solid, then another long cycle to slump into the shape of a platter. The results are worth the time to me. 

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