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Powder-wafer white and
yellow pansy is 6" by 10".
Inspired by the gardens and woods around our home, here are two
new ways for me to use glass to reflect the natural world.
Created by a new powder-wafer technique, this is a small
4" x 8" pink pansy on a clear background.
and some more Pansies
and finally a triple pansy in pots
arraingement (10" x 18").
With care, you can take mushrooms, fungus of various sorts and
other vegetable matter, and create direct plaster casts that, once the
organic matter is burned out, can be replaced with glass power, frit
(various sized crushed glass) and larger casting pieces of clear and
tinted chunks of glass.
These are four of my initial efforts using various unidentified fungi growing on stumps in the field down by the creek. They are generally about softball sized.
These are four of my initial efforts using various unidentified fungi growing on stumps in the field down by the creek. They are generally about softball sized.
Utilizing powered glass to create the below images, other, more colorful
parts of my garden and shrubs can be shown.
Wall hung pansy squares - mounted on, and standing
slightly off of, brown felt covered backing.