New style of plates

Thanks for your patience with my lack of posting for so long. While I knew it had been a while, I hadn't realized that I had waited that long until I went to post today. Between the holidays, moving into a new place, and lots of classes, I haven't spent very much time in the studio or posted any of my new work.

With all of the classes I've been taking, the friends that I've made in the Phoenix area, and the Phoenix area groups that I've joined, I've been spending quite a lot of time in hotels for the last year or so.  It finally made sense to buy a small condo that I can use when I'm spending time down in Phoenix. To celebrate my new space and to furnish it with beauty, I decided to make a set of bowls and plates in fused glass.

Joy plateSince I have the opportunity to design the plates any way I want them, I decided to combine my love of the fractures and streamers glass - that's the clear layer of glass with the lines and small bits of colored glass that makes up the top layer on the plate to the left - and the copper accents I've been using lately into these new plates. I also wanted to infuse intention and some of my energy work into these plates, as well. Up in the top right corner of the plate, I added a small piece of coordinating glass to write the intention on. You can click on the image to bring up the larger version that shows more of the detail.

With all of the layers on these plates, they take three trips through the kiln to create.  The first firing fuses the the colored bottom layer of glass, the copper accent and the fractures and streamers glass on top into a new sheet. The second fusing adds the small piece of glass for the intention.  The third firing fuses the writing of the intention and slumps the plate into its final shape.

I'm really looking forward to completing the full set of 8 plates over the next couple of weeks. Then I'll get started on the bowls that will coordinate with them. What fun!