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...

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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.

Students are continuing to work on creating their pendants out of dichroic glass. Below are designs ready for the kiln. They will be fired today. I will post the same images after they have been fired to show you the difference. The students make their designs by sandwiching the various...

June decided to enshrine “Chocolate Hills” in the Philippines. June is originally from the Philippines and this place is dear to her heart. She chose to design one necklace and reproduce it twice—one for herself and one for the shop. She did a great job mixing the color palette and...

Victoria and I have been discussing how to integrate color into her Project 2. She designed a color palette of red, white and blue for her Project 1 and feels strongly about this palette. Until this discussion, she was having difficulty figuring out how to integrate color. Her bracelet concept...

The two images below show Chasity’s bracelet with the addition of a line. Should she have a line with just one piece of metal or two? After our discussion it was decided two would be best. One was too thin and did not have enough visual weight.  

Last week the students were on Spring Break. When they left they were working on their Shrine Project. Many of the students have completed more than half of the work for their two shrines. For this project it seems that most students are designing and creating two similar shrines (two...