Oil pastel bottles

Media: Oil pastel bottles 

- I drew the outline of glass bottles very loosely with a white oil pastel and then drew lines throughout the bottles 

- I then filed the sections created by the lines in with various colored pastels and blended them 

- Lastly i chose white, orange, and yellow to make the bottles stand out and colored the sections created outside the bottles with those colors

Materials: oil pastels 

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Glass mosaic

Media - glass mosaic

- I had a piece of wood and i glued the shredded glass pieces to the wood forming my design after i drew out the design first with pencil
- Leaving a space for the mirror and placing a piece of cardboard over it i then spread grout over the piece and spread it out using the edges of cardboard
- I then took clay tools and carved out the pieces of glass so they were clearly visible and removed the cardboard and glued the mirror down
- Then to finish i smoothed the grout and painted white over it and the sides to give it a cleaner finish and i wiped down the mirror and glass as well

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Materials - wood board, glass, grout, mirror

Printed picture pressed on glass

Media - printed paper pressed on glass 

- I printed a picture and pressed it on a piece of glass using modge podge 

- I then rubbed the paper off with a sponge and water and the picture was printed on the glass

- Then i flipped the glass around and painted on the back of the glass to give it a different effect 

Materials - glass, modge podge, sponge, paint, printed picture 

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objects in between glass

Media - objects in between glass

- First i was given 2 pieces of glass and i glued the letters and feathers and to the first piece of glass
- Then i glued the top piece of glass onto the first piece but i tilted it giving it negative space
- I then took sharpie and drew on the corners of the glass and on top of the glass as well
- I then glued small, smashed pieces of glass on top of the glass and on one of the corners

Materials - sharpies, glass, feathers, letters, and smashed pieces of glass

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glass plate

Media - painted glass 

- I took a piece of glass and painted the glass with two different colors of glass paint 

- I then put the glass on a clay mold and the plate was fired and the glass melted into the mold creating a  glass plate 

Materials - clay plate mold, piece of glass, glass paint, paintbrush, sandpaper 

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glass bead

Media - glass making

- For making a glass bead i first got a piece of glass and heated it up using a torch
- I gathered a ball of hot, molten glass and then took the mandrel and spun the ball of hot glass onto the mandrel after it was heated up keeping both the glass and mandrel in the hottest part of the flam
- While doing this you have to keep the mandrel and the glass slowly rotating to create and even amount of glass
- Once the glass is on the mandrel you continue to rotate the mandrel then i took another colored piece of glass and heated it up keeping the mandrel turning
- I then added the other color of glass onto the glass on the mandrel spinning the mandrel to allow the glass to flow on
- I then kept heating the mandrel and kept it in the hottest part of the flame evening the bead out
- Also throughout this process my arm remained horizontal so the bead was not uneven
- Once i was finished i took the mandrel out of the flame keeping it rotating and buried it in rice to let it cool

Materials - Mandrel, long pieces of glass, oxygen gas, glasses, torch

abstract collage

media - collage 

- i used the cut out shapes from a previous projects and glued them to a black board to create an abstract look 

- i then went in with bright pastels and outlined the shapes to give the piece more definition and a more vibrant look 

materials - black board, paper cutouts, pastels, glue  

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