glass cube
Glass and Ceramics
The Glass and Ceramics rotation week was a week of experimentation. The week started off with four workshops: Ceramics, Hot Glass, Architectural Glass, and Print on Glass. Out of the four workshops I had to choose only two; the four workshops were only testers and were only an hour long, whereas the two I chose would take place over a day each.
Out of the four workshops, I chose to do Hot Glass and Architectural Glass.
The first workshop was Hot Glass and I have to admit, I was scared to do it; It also didn’t help that I was chosen first for the activities so I didn’t have an idea of what to do. The first activity was drawing with glass, where you take a ‘glob’ of glass and let it drip onto a damp piece of paper, the glass would burn the paper and leave a burnt drawing on the page. If you left the glass on for too long it would act like a pair of scissors and cut through the page.
The second activity was to make a paperweight. You started of with a small ball of glass and then dip it in different colours of powder, you would then manipulate the glass to however you wanted, then you cover that with another layer of glass and then shape it into a ball, after that you cut if off and let if cool, you then flatten the bottom.
The second activity I wasn’t that scared for. For Architectural Glass I had to design a few shapes and patterns which would be sandblasted onto 6 pieces of square glass, then after they had been sandblasted I had to glue the squares together to make a cube of glass.
The images below are the finished outcomes of the paperweight and the cube.
Railston Artworks 