KaleidoScope: Our own gallery for members' art work, crafts and photographs.

Roddy

marmalade said:

HI @Roddy

that's a brilliant idea I never considered taking the glass out and working with it hot, now this opens a lot of different ways of working with the glass I never considered before, very exciting.  Thank you for that I appreciate it.  Could I do the same with thin glass rods I use with my bullseye?  I love your recent post and you have said it so eloquently.

Hi @m@marmalade

Every action you make with glass in a molten state will have a direct effect once the glass has cooled. The less time spent will achieve the best results, and so I would suggest that you experiment first with small/unwanted pieces. Not all glass is compatible with other glass. It can be mixed together thoroughly whilst hot, but as soon as it cools it will crack & shatter... 

However, you can obtain several eye-catching effects such as 'ice glass' by submerging a hot piece into water, quickly removing it, and placing it back into the HOT kiln and cooling it down GRADUALLY for at least three hours or more. The 'cracks' will still be evident but will be fused together as a part of the overall pattern...  

Powdered white chalk can also be worked onto semi-molten glass and the effect will produce a multitude of trapped air bubbles.

A golden rule when working with molten glass (unless it is Borosilicate glass) is that it requires to be cooled down very gradually. The reasons for this are that glass requires to be at the same temperature throughout its entirety. If a certain area is hotter or cooler it will crack once it is completely cool. This is why you see glass-blowers placing a finished piece into a 'annealing oven' which cools the glass gradually. Some pieces can take up to 4 days to be annealed properly. If you just to allow a finished piece to cool down on its own then 'nothing' would be the result. 

The only way around this is if you are trained or can use a gas/air or gas/oxygen glass-working lamp, as then you can control and adjust the heat throughout the glass during the making process.  Unlike metal, the heat does not travel through glass. Glass can be red-hot an inch or so away from cold. 

Seanchai

There are so many talented people on this site ....I used to love painting ...but I went through a dark spell and binned all my work... in the last few years I tried painting but I,m afraid the hands shake to much to be able to do any painting now ...the last (and only) painting I have left is a small painting of the forth road bridge at night . I am so mad at myself for binning all my work , I even ripped up and binned an almanac of the last 25 years that I kept dilligently  ...gardening , weather, extraordinary occurrences,   dates etc ....those are things that cannot be replaced .
When the darkness descends I totally look at things from a black point of view . If not for my wife and families help during these black spells, I know I would not be here .
I just love seeing everybody's work . From poems to painting to etching to crochet , to cake making ..amazing stuff guys     Thanks to all for posting your amazing work
May your God go with you .

iza

Hi all, I wasn't  been here for quite long time. I had visited Scope's  Community Online  from time to time and noticed that you  are sharing now some of creative staff here. I am just discovering how to use salt dough for making Angels. Perhaps, it could inspire someone else to try too. 

kazmoose

Very talented people on here, i love making jewellery, not that i seem to have much time lately to do any, i also like to try my hand at a lot of other crafts too.

Roddy

Ami2301 said:

I am slowly getting into photography and these are my 2 favourite pictures

@Ami2301

Here's the finished piece lit up in its lamp base. 

Ami2301

It's absolutely stunning!

Aura

Roddy

Ami2301 said:

It's absolutely stunning!

Thank You 

Ami2301

What a breathtaking picture @Aura!

Aura

Ami2301 said:

What a breathtaking picture @Aura!

Thanks.  It's Towen beach at the moment.  Hoping to go there again this year, but National Express coaches are making it hard to get there with their cuts.

alliy_j

Wow the glass work on here is amazing. I've always wanted to work with glass but have muscle spasms so afraid of burning myself lol
I crochet to keep my arms busy, it helps keep the muscle spasms down and I can take it anywhere with me.
I've just finished some dungarees for my nephews birthday.

buzzer

@sandyp196Fabulous Bag I love the vibrance of KF fabric. 

GettinOlde

I don't have an artistic bone in my body, but I do like to play with words.

Through leaf and branch

Shafts of gold

Spear gloom and shadows

That silken hold

My self in comfort

Does warmth enfold

Whilst gliding 'tween

Trunk and old

Boughs fallen long

Their age untold

On friends of nature

My dreams unfold

Reveal, only if you wish to know what inspired this ...

I was around 3 years old when I wet the bed while dreaming of gliding slowly through a syrupy warmth on the back of a giant snail in a small wooded copse I used to play in that summer of my childhood - before the horrors of school.

I think the dream may also have been influenced by illustrations in The Water Babies that I remember my older sister reading to me.

GettinOlde

In a street that used to be a thriving hub of interdependent traders.

Found en route to my surgery - not exactly a lily pad, but a miniature Banksy maybe?

Roddy

Hi @GettinOlde
I don't like dreams of any kind myself. They affect me the next day whether they are good ones or bad or ridiculously out of this world. There have also been times when I've been too worried to go to sleep in case a reoccurring dream unsettles me again. They are far 'too realistic' for my liking and some of them can be very nasty. 

GettinOlde

@Roddy Can sympathize entirely.

When I first met my wife to be (divorced), on sleep-overs I slept in her bed while she shared with her mum. One night I woke in a panic feeling like I was pinned to the bed with a looming shadow over me - I later learnt that it was probably a 'waking dream'. My most frequent dreams are of searching for a loo (bladder and bowel probs). Not to mention the disturbing dreams induced by taking Champix when trying to give up smoking.

alliy_j

Made a doily for my fiances gran who we see twice a year maybe as she lives 2hrs drive away and I can't manage that most days.

AlisonNetty

Whenever I'm feeling angry or upset I ake some tags...

Ails

These are great and very unusual @AlisonNetty. 

April2018mom

This is what I made recently 
It is a suncatcher