Some new pieces

First, I picked up the two pieces that I made while assisting Doug in class last month. The first one was an example of using an optic mold in a simple paperweight. The second was just getting in some practice while the class was taking a break.

These next three are from my studio session last week. I bought some dichroic glass scrap to play around with. I started with a simple paperweight with some shards in it just to get a feel for how to use the dichroic without burning it off. You have to be very carefull with the heat exposure or the metal oxides burn away.

The next two pieces I was focusing on trying to get the thickness of the glass correct. They came out perfect in that regard. Unfortunately, the "plate" didn't spin out enough and has a funky shape because I didn't trim up the lip. And the foot cracked off of the blue piece when we were taking it off the punty. Oh well, them's the breaks I guess.