#glassartengine

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The power of glass to assume myriad roles in culture, art, and technology has roots in glass’s fundamental chemistry and physics. These concepts can be taught via analogies to everyday situations, that can help designers, artists, and the public understand the science and  to more deeply appreciate its wonders. In this lecture, Dr. Cook will describe how, over 35 centuries, we’ve harnessed extreme temperatures to transform humble rocks into masterpieces of color, clarity, and form.

Jane Cook via “The Glass Science of Glass Art”

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Here’s another shot of our latest attempt at enameling.

The enamel is far clearer than the previous attempts and achieves a glossy rather than matte finish. 

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This glass was painted with a very thin glass powder/ pine oil mixture and fired at (1000C).

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Attempt number 2 at enamels.

This sample was done by mixing our glass powder and water together to from a paste. The mixture was applied over a stencil and the result was this psychedelic snowflake.

This sample was put in a kiln at (1000C).

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A first attempt at using our recycled glass powder as an enamel.

This sample was done by mixing pine oil and the glass powder into a low viscosity mix.

This sample was put into a kiln at (1200F).

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Dr. Jane Cook, lead scientist of Corning Museum of Glass visited our Glassartengine class to view our progress.

Viewing our samples, she hypothesized that our recycled glass powder may have come from glass enamels.

This would explain the low melting temperature, unusual composition and rather green appearance.

We will now begin to explore using our recycled glass as an enamel.

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Here’s another photo of our beautiful crazed sample.

Here you can see the white striations well.

We believe that because the glass was put in water and then reheated in order to open the lid further our striations occurred when it hadn’t before.

During reheating, the lip experienced the most heat change and perhaps gained it’s beautiful swirls during that process.