I'm home from my weekend in beautiful Pennsylvania, where I led an exploration of painting on glass and setting glass into silver clay. The class of ten students did some beautiful work. Unfortunately for me, despite sitting in the charger for weeks (evidently unplugged), my camera battery was nearly dead. Luckily, Holly's camera worked!
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Enamel on glass paintings by Holly Gage (two on left reverse, others surface) |
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Enamel painting on glass Top, L to R: Helene Richards, Karen Quirk Douglass (2); bottom: Kimberle Gage Swanson |
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Dorothy Thompson - painted enamel on glass set in fine silver clay |
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Enamel painting on glass set in fine silver clay Karen Quirk Douglass |
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Painted enamel on glass set in fine silver clay Terri Werner |
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Enamel painting on glass set in fine silver clay Kimberle Gage Swanson |
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Enamel painting on glass set in fine silver clay Christine Miller |
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Enamel painting on glass set in fine silver clay Helene Richardson |
It was a great trip. The students were fun, enthusiastic and productive. Holly did an amazing job of preparing and assembling supplies. She and her family also welcomed me into their home, where Holly shared her studio and supplies with me for late night play sessions, while her husband pampered me with gourmet meals (pumpkin lasagna!!) and her daughter, Megan, aspiring veterinarian, showed off her amazing domestic leopard cat and miniature rabbits. After a few days of rain, the weather turned sunny and gorgeous, with trees turning red, an amazing sunset after the last storm, and images recorded in my memory of pristine farms on rolling hills with Amish horses and buggies pattering past.
Very impressed with your students and I can definitely appreciate the intricacy of Holly's paintings -oooh, so tiny! And I love the owl. Can you tell me what brand glass paints you used in the class? The colors are quite stunning.
ReplyDeleteVery beautiful. Do you mix your own enamel paints or do you prefer a certain brand?
ReplyDeleteAll the best,
Heather
Thanks, Cheryl & Heather!
ReplyDeleteThe watercolors are from Thompson and the opaques are from Fuse Master.
Very satisfying to see the way the patterning in the silver settings complement/echo the paintings. The instructor's guiding influence, perchance... ;}
ReplyDeleteTerri- Your Owl can only be described as quite lyrical!