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Fused Glass Fall Decor’

On By Erickson's HeirloomsIn Fall Colors, Fused glass2 Comments

Yes, its been a while since I posted. I’ve been busy making things, but always find something else to do besides writing about my projects. And, since the person I started this blog for, my mother, is no longer able to read the blog, I have less incentive to post things.

For those that follow my blog, I apologize. Hopefully, I will get better at posting. But, I’m not making any promises.

This morning as I walked past my dining room, I felt a twinge of guilt for not posting about the fall glass art that I made over a year ago. If you recall, last winter I posted about some snow themed pieces I made for my dining room table. And, on May Day, I posted about some spring flower pieces. So, here is the update about the fall decor’ that I have made.

Leaf Bowl:

I started out by cutting and contour fusing several shapes of leaves in a variety of colors. I also made a few acorns. Please disregard the sweater and jewelry sets. At the time, I had space on the kiln shelf and so I added a few other items to this run of the kiln.

The leaves were then positioned to form a plate and tack fused together. When I placed the project in my slumping mold, I realized that the size was going to be smaller than I wanted.

So, I contour fused a few more leaves and tack fused them together.

And then slumped into the mold.

Leaf Plates and Wood Turned Apples:

For additional decorations on the table, I pulled out one of the fall dessert plates I made a few years ago. Unfortunately, at the time, I did not take any pictures of how I made the set of four plates. In summary, leaves were cut out of different colors of glass or frit stenciled onto the base. Clear coarse frit and fine frit in a mix of greens was placed around the leaves and full fused. The plates were then trimmed to a square shape and capped with 2 mm clear glass (to make them food safe) and slumped into a dish shape.

I also added a leaf plate made with irridized glass and some wood turned apples that I purchased from a local artist at a craft fair I participated in last winter.

The combination of art pieces make for a lovely table display.

Spring Has Sprung

On By Erickson's HeirloomsIn Flowers, Fused glass, Yard Art1 Comment

Spring is my favorite time of year. And, while my main planting will need to wait a few more weeks, I have been enjoying the color of the spring flowers in my gardens.

To bring the spring colors inside, I made some glass table art.

Floral Bowl:

A base of green flower stems was created with cut pieces of glass and vitregraph contour fused together.

To add details, a variety of flowers were made using cut glass with frit details, murrini, freeze and fuse flowers and flamework flowers. The butterfly was dichroic glass that was etched to create the details, white enamel paint was added to create the dots and a handmade butterfly body was made with fused dots and stringer. These design features were contour fused to soften the edges, then placed on the stem base and tack fused together.

The resulting 12″ piece of art was slumped into a bowl shape.

Eden Flower Bowls:

Eden is an innovative fused glass technique by Cristina Grumezescu Schnellboegl (tutorial available on Etsy). I will not describe the details of this technique because it is a paid tutorial, but I used this technique to create really lovely custom glass. The resulting glass was squashed to make it 3mm thick, cut into the shape of a flower, contour fused with added details and slumped into a bowl shape.

Deep Slumped Tulips:

Glass petals were cut and contour fused with frit and flower centers, then slumped over a deep ceramic form and epoxied to a green base.

I am enjoying the lovely spring flowers now in my dining room while waiting a few more weeks to do my spring planting.