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Glass
Fused To Metal
(Enameling)
Enameling is glass fused to copper or other metal at high heat.
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Glass
Fused To Metal Enameling is glass fused to copper or other metal at high heat. |
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For more information about how I create these enameled works, please see my pictorial demonstration of The Enameling Process. |
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Medano
Morning |
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Red
Rock Rhythms This piece, inspired by Red Rock Canyon near Pikes Peak, Colorado (a
property protected as open space), was created for the Palmer Land Trust "Art
for Land's Sake" benefit art sale.
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Archivist This chuckwalla and petroglyph rock seen in Grand Canyon inspired this piece in
which translucent amber enamels allow the color of the copper to shine through,
contrasting with the sandy opaque enamels of the petroglyph rock. The opaques
were mixed with adhesive, dried, and scratched through
(sgraffito technique) to reveal the underlying enamel from previous
firings, then under-fired to the point of glass grains fusing to the metal but
retaining a sandy, rough appearance and texture ("sugar fired").
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Waters From Stone In this
piece, textures in the stone were made using the sgraffito technique, including
scratching through the first unfired coat of enamel to reveal bare copper, which
oxidizes black on firing. The brightest greens in the foliage surrounding the
falls was made by applying tiny pieces of silver foil to the previously-fired
enamel, then firing transparent green enamels over the silver. The silver
reflects light back through the clear green glass, giving added
brilliance. The quotation (hand-inscribed using sgraffito technique) -- is John Wesley Powell's description of this site; he named the place Vasey's Paradise after the botanist on one of his Canyon expeditions. Water seeps down through the limestone, hits an impermeable rock layer, and emerges at several points in the Canyon, creating riparian micro-ecosystems from bare rock; great blue herons walk the shores within the canyon. |
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Canyon
Heart Reflections in a pool in North Canyon, Grand Canyon. Smooth, brilliant
reflections shine among shadowed sandstone. In this piece, the powdered
glass depicting the surrounding sandstone is underfired, giving a rough, grainy
texture, while the enamels depicitng the pool and reflections are smooth and
translucent. |
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Benediction Inspired by Deer Creek Falls, Grand Canyon. The enamel depicting the foreground cliffs was scratched through (sgraffito technique) before the first firing, exposing the underlying copper; in firing, the copper oxidized to black. The ridges and crevices in the cliffs create physical variations, giving a slight relief surface. |
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Inner
Canyon Evening |
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Canyon
Lifeblood |
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Oasis |
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Double click
the image to see "Palimpsest" at a different angle
to the light. |
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Palimpsest |
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Quotes In Palimpsest Through our eyes we inhale light and images - light and images we share with every being on earth. And out of our eyes we exhale a light or a darkness that is the spirit in which we perceive. --My Story As Told By Water But some say dust is the beginning, its slow accumulation and eventual density in space resulting in the formation of great rolling nebulae, in the emergence of expansive galactic clusters, the collapse of heavy stars into themselves. Dust, in the right circumstances, can make its own light. --"A Self-Analysis of
Dust" But as my sight by seeing learned to see, --Paradiso Make of yourselves a light --Buddha Let mine eye bless all it sees --Gaelic blessing Light upon Light --The Qur'an |
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Garden
Party |
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Contemplation |
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Pat Musick - musickstudio |
