Painting with Fused Glass

The video shows how I add fused glass to my paintings. I love how you can take your fused glass artwork and add it to your paintings. It’s makes your paintings so much more exciting. The fused glass adds color that you can’t achieve from paints plus it also adds a three-dimensional look. It’s adds that Wow! factor to your paintings.

The painting needs to be on a hardboard painting panel in order to provide a hard smooth surface to attached the fused glass. I sometime add an epoxy coating to the painting to add more depth. I use clear silicone to attached the fused glass to the painting. Hope you are inspired to try painting with glass.

 

Fused Glass Dog and Cat

 The video shows how I made the fused glass cat and dog. The cat and dog bodies are two layers of fused glass that was fused using a full fusing firing schedule. The facial features were attached using a tack fused firing schedule. A welded steel frame was used to create the dog’s and cat’s legs. The fused glass was attached to the steel frame using clear silicone.

Simplifying Fused Glass

Using a saw to cut fused glass can reduce your time to make fused glass artwork. Instead of using your kiln for two firings, you do the whole process with only using a tack firing schedule. You also save on fused glass by only having to use one layer of glass for the base.

 

Fused Glass Cats

 

The video shows how I made the fused glass cats. The cat bodies are two layers of bullseye fused glass that was fused using a full fusing firing schedule. The facial features were attached using a tack fused firing schedule. The fused glass was attached to the refrigerator door and window using clear silicone. 

Fused Glass Mistakes

The video shows the mistakes that I made when I first started making artwork using fused glass.

The first mistake was fusing all the glass layers in one full fused firing. The second mistake was to use a single lay of glass for the facial feature. I now use a combination of a single layer of glass and two layers of glass that has been full fused for the facial features. The features are added to the base using a tack fuse firing. The final artwork now has a more three-dimensional look.