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8 x 10 Sgraffito fused glass by Gloria E. Moses
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Artist Kelly Crosser Alge of Modern Ancient Glass gave a workshop to introduce us to Sgraffito Drawing Techniques in Fused Glass.
Personal Note:Taking a workshop and learning something new gets your blood flowing and your neurons firing! But when you take a workshop with friends and fellow artists Kristen Dukat and Laurie Mueller all bets are off, anything and everything with 24/7 of nonstop LOL!!
After a introduction to and demo of materials. Kelly then handed out a multitude of mark making and drawing tools for us to try while explaining the more technical side of fusing glass. We started with these small 2 x 3 inch pieces just to get a feel for learning how to draw with the powdered glass. So this was my quick little design, and it will soon become a nightlight (when I put it all together).
We then worked on our large 8 x10 inch masterpiece, while the first demo pieces were being fired in the smaller kiln. These larger pieces took quite a bit of time and effort no one wanted to stop working on them for the night. We continued perfecting our drawing techniques the next day until we each were satisfied with how we thought it might look when it was fired. Here is how it looked pre-fired.
Workshop peeps Shirley Cole, Laurie Mueller, Gail Stanforth, pre-fired pieces looked so good, the fired amazing finished pieces can be seen on Kelly's website. Modern Ancient Glass
Then Kelly introduced us to color, lots of color, in free form expression making Cityscape's!!!
She let us play with all her beautiful glass pieces and scraps that she made for use in her large Cityscape. We used bits of copper and also silver, stringer, Frit,..... I was like being a kid trying to fit all the pretties on one small glass sheet!
She let us play with all her beautiful glass pieces and scraps that she made for use in her large Cityscape. We used bits of copper and also silver, stringer, Frit,..... I was like being a kid trying to fit all the pretties on one small glass sheet!
This is one of my finished Cityscape's and I love it! Thanks Kelly for all the work she did when we left, she added the extra glass pieces to fuse them, she fired, packed, and mailed us the finished masterpieces! Thank you Kelly for what you taught us and for allowing us to play and use the pretties! Can't wait to go back for the advance class!!!!
You can find Kelly at: http://www.modernancientglass.com/
This is a wonderful post. So interesting with beautiful results. I love the term "Modern ancient glass" as I love to paint the actual ancient glass. (I own some Roman 1st Century pieces)
ReplyDeleteI looked through some of of your previous posts and went to your website and am VERY impressed by your work.
Wow Julie, now I'm speechless, thank you! I am trying to loosen up by learning alla-prima and painting from life, very different from what I learned when I started. Your tools even though I don't completely have the idea, did helped me freely break the form. Lol, it like gave me permission? Which is the idea of it, and I will use it again because it adds such interesting textures. I read you teach locally but do you ever do workshops for other outside groups?
DeleteI'm really just trying to get the hang of blogging and the FB stuff, I'm becoming a little more comfortable. Kelly Alge the glass artist's knowledge is very impressive and I'm looking forward to refining my skills at her next workshop in August. I too have always been fascinated with glass, I collect but do not have such impressive still life. lol Thank you so much for your very kind words and taking the time to write them!
Awesome blog post about the sgraffito workshop! My piece finally got fired, I'll send a pic, it's pretty cool
ReplyDeleteI will be looking for your piece, I bet it will be amazing! I sure hope you took before and after pictures. We sure had fun, can't wait to see what Kelly will teach us next time!!
DeleteThese pieces are simply beautiful. What a treat to read about and see photos of the workshop. Hope to see more in the future, Gloria. And, BTW, I heard you guys laughing all the way over here!
ReplyDeleteThanks Chris you meet Kelly soon! That laughter is coming your way, you and Kristen will have fun. Wish I was going too!
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DeleteLovely work and this technique looks very fun! I enjoy employing sgraffito on scratchboard and sometimes even use it in other media.
ReplyDeleteThank you Diana! It was an exciting experience to learn about something so different. It is kind of like drawing, but with all the uncontrolled elements added. I'm intrigued about how you do this with other media, did you write about it on your blog? I will look for your examples, because I'm learning how fun it is to find other ways of artistic expression. Thank you so much for stopping by!
DeleteI was not familiar with this fascinating technique and they are gorgeous! Thanks for posting.It really makes me want to try something similar.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping Mary, Kelly's workshop was so much fun, were going to take the next class! It was a new medium and we loved the immediate gratification of being able to use our drawing skills to make something so very cool!
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