Victoria has completed her two pendant designs and now has moved onto designing and creating a glass bracelet. She mostly used her red, white and blue color palette that is throughout her semester’s work. And, she used repetition of small elements similarly when compared to her shrine bracelets—here she used...

Below is Jasmine’s glass pendant in progress. She is making a wire wrapped cage design, but wants to incorporate a bead. We discussed choosing a bead that compliments the existing design, but also making reference to the her work previously. The brownish bead makes reference to the color palette in...

Each student must complete five final fused glass pendant designs. This is an example of Chasity’s final five. She has chosen two pendants to wrap in a cage of wire. It is best to choose pendants that are most symmetrical in shape, since it is easiest to wrap symmetrical shapes rather than...

Victoria Wire Wrapping Katelynn Wire Wrapping

June sketches her ideas on a small piece of paper. She then creates the dichroic pendant from her sketch. The sketch is of the pendant with the light blue and white glass. The other pendants are other students’ work. These pieces are very geometric using line, shape and pattern. Really...

Compare these images with the ‘before images’ to see how the dichroic pendants change after being fired. It will be interesting to hear the students’ comments on their work.