Glass Pendants
Dots Dots Dots 2
This style of pendant is called a "tube implosion". I take a small section of tubing, heat it up with my torch, and puff it into a bubble.
The coloring IN the pendant (not the background or loop coloring) comes from fuming.
Fuming is when gold and/or silver is placed in the flame of a torch, and vaporized. The vapor condenses onto glass in the back of the flame. Many different and unexpected colors can be achieved by manipulating this thin layer of metal in different ways. White, electric blue, green, yellow, red, purple, orange, pink, and other shades therein can all be made through fuming gold and/or silver.
I fume the bubble of glass, then i add dots of clear to trap that fume layer.
Then, I melt the bubble down into a solid. The work I did on the bubble then "sinks" into the clear, giving the work depth, as well as some beautiful fading to the colors.
This pendant has many shades of colors, the background has blues and greens on the edges, and milky blue white in the middle. The dots range in color, and shift as the light and viewing angle change. Even the shadows of the dots on the background add subtle variations to the "look" of this pendant.
The coloring IN the pendant (not the background or loop coloring) comes from fuming.
Fuming is when gold and/or silver is placed in the flame of a torch, and vaporized. The vapor condenses onto glass in the back of the flame. Many different and unexpected colors can be achieved by manipulating this thin layer of metal in different ways. White, electric blue, green, yellow, red, purple, orange, pink, and other shades therein can all be made through fuming gold and/or silver.
I fume the bubble of glass, then i add dots of clear to trap that fume layer.
Then, I melt the bubble down into a solid. The work I did on the bubble then "sinks" into the clear, giving the work depth, as well as some beautiful fading to the colors.
This pendant has many shades of colors, the background has blues and greens on the edges, and milky blue white in the middle. The dots range in color, and shift as the light and viewing angle change. Even the shadows of the dots on the background add subtle variations to the "look" of this pendant.
