Glass Class

Photo: Glass yellow aspens

For the past two years I have been wanting to learn how to fuse glass and I finally took a "glass class" last week at Glen Echo Park. To fuse glass, I learned how to cut glass, create a composition and fire it in the kiln. I made these yellow aspens as a tribute to my favorite state - Colorado!


This is a piece by a classmate I call "Jamie Sprinkles." If you do not think Jamie Sprinkles' composition is the best awesome-est glass piece you've ever seen, then you are not in the majority of my glass classmates. About every 10 minutes during the 4 hours I sat next to Jamie Sprinkles while she created this wild glass manifesto, another woman or the instructor would stop by to tell her, "Jamie, I sooo love your artistic style. You really have a talent."


Apparently creating glass art makes people gravitate to the art styles of the 80's. Here's another piece by a glass classmate.


Totally 80's

One guy made a Bunsen burner glass composition. OK.

Valentine's glass composition by a classmate.


One lady made a fish. Pretty cute.

Here's a fish by another woman. This is pretty talented glass cutting.


My instructor made a leopard. Amazing work.

I also made a cherry blossom. The sky was supposed to be all blue, but I didn't know these light blue pieces were going to turn purple when fired in the kiln. I also made a plate with flowers on it, and used an "all blue" sky, but there was one piece of purple in that, too. It ruined the whole plate. I was very sad. I couldn't look at it anymore, so Tom took the small glass plate to work to use for paper-clips.

Someone gave me a small moose for a gift once. Now the moose goes perfectly with my small aspens!