01 October 2004

Painting with tones and lustres

”kiln” This is the first stage of my first bit of glass painting; picking out the dark lines from a Degas mezzotint with a black glaze and fired once ready for the half tones and stippling effects. I've photographed it and experimented with tones and silver oxide (yellow) possiblities in Photoshop. It will probably be quite different in the end.

”Loetz” We've also had a bash at painting with lustres (very expensive) and that's in the kiln as we speak. Here's a pic I took last weekend when we went to Blackwells on Lake Windermere and I saw these vases by Loetz. Don't like them much, but I enjoyed the lustre session.

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