Slumped clear glass with red and blue airbrush

Other

Traditional

A sheet of glass is to be put in the kiln, on top of special ceramic fibre templates put on the kilnshelf, cut-out to the desired shape. At high temperature, the glass will slump around the templates, creating relief effects and textures.

Material

Glass

Craft

Glass-making

General Technique

Surface modifying

Specific Technique

Slumping clear glass before airbrushing with red and blue opalescent vitreous enamel.

Properties & Qualities

Application

Architecture Art Sample making

Qualities

2D 3D Colourful Translucent

Colour

Blue Red

Sample Information

Date of creation

July 10th, 2023

Dimensions

21cm x 30cm x 0.6cm

Weight

0.94 kg

Process & Production

Cutting special ceramic fible templates to the desired shape. Putting ceramic fible templates onto the kilnshelf.laying a sheet of glass onto the templates and firing at around 800° C. The glass will slump around the templates, creating relief effects and textures. Mixing of opalescent vitreous enamels with water and screen printing medium or gum arabic until right consistency is reached. Applying colours to the glass through airbrush. After each wash of paint a firing at about 605° C in order to melt the paintlayers to the glass.

Credits

Craft Maker

Glasmalerei Peters Studios

Photographer

Glasmalerei Peters Studios

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