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Kaleidoscope Fruit Dish 30cm |
Today I am working on a large Kaleidoscope fruit dish which will hopefully be finished in time for the Chapel Allerton Festival at the end of August. A friend recently asked me how I have the patience to cut, grind, clean and position every piece of glass before placing the glass in the kiln - well I don't. Instead I work on a section of the design each day before moving onto something else which makes the task a lot less arduous.First I take my template, which I created by drawing concentric circles and adding radiating lines before photocopying it, then I draw out the radiating shapes onto the photocopy. After that I decide which colours of transparent glass I am going to use and start cutting the shapes. THis dish has 230 component parts, measuring no more than 30mm, so you can see why I break it down into sections!
The worst part is washing, rinsing and drying each piece, making sure there is no residue powdered glass or pen marks and the fun part is positioning the jigsaw of tiny parts onto the base clear glass before fusing. Oh, I forgot to say that I don't have to remember where each piece goes because I take a photo of it on my phone before I start the washing process.
Even so, these dishes are quite labour intensive but hugely enjoyable to make. Here are a few more....
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Deep Kaleidoscope dish measuring 20cm across |
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Deep Kaleidoscope dish measuring 20cm across |
Wow! I love these! I would have to work on small sections at a time myself. I don't have the patience or attention span to work straight through on something this intricate. Your work is beautiful!
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