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Workshop Schedule 2015(see workshop descriptions below)
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Click below to view schedules: Whidbey Island Frit Fusing Extravaganza including Float Glass FacesThis special four day workshop and is a hands-on history lesson about glass. On the first day we will create a “float glass face” and make a metal stand to display our creation, (Please see the Float Glass Faces workshop description directly below). You will have a chance to view Richard’s enameled glass collection. Next we will work with “tested compatible” Bullseye glass using 3 mm and 6 mm sheet glass, crushed glass frit mixtures, the liquid glass line method, multiple firings, silver foil, stencils, and various techniques that La Londe has developed. Each participant will create an 8″ x 8″ two fire “liquid glass line” pictorial tile, a 9″ x 9″ mandala, a 9″ x 9″ fused glass “cave painting” tile, make aluminum backing plates to mount your class tiles for wall hanging, and a “float glass face” with stand. This workshop will be held in Richard La Londe’s studio located on beautiful Whidbey Island near Seattle, Washington. A field trip is planned to a local glass blowing/cold working studio and a “wine and cheese” hour will allow each participant to share their artwork with the group. Wonderful lunches will be served each day. This is a chance for you to interact with a glass fusing pioneer in his own studio! Experience in basic glass fusing is suggested but not a requirement. |
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 Float Glass Faces If you want to learn about fusing float glass, then this one day workshop is for you!We will work with float glass (window glass), vitreous enamels, silver and other metal foils to create a two sided dimensional face/mask – fused and shaped in a fiber blanket mold. You will learn how to distinguish the “tin side” from the “air side” of float glass and how to create reactions with mixed metals which can enhance your artwork. Learn about firing float glass and stopping devitrification. We will also make a metal stand to display our creation. This workshop is sometimes offered as a 1 day add-on or included with another workshop. |
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 Advanced Mandala plus Cave Painting We begin by designing a Mandala and over three days using “tested compatible” Bullseye 3 mm and 6 mm sheet glass, crushed glass frit mixtures, the liquid glass line method, multiple firings, we will create glass tiles. Using a rotary diamond engraver we will etch a pattern into silver foil and fuse into glass tiles. Then we will fabricate an aluminum mounting system and adhere these tiles into a pattern to create our 14″ x 14″ Mandala wall piece. On the fourth day we will use a digital stencil cutter along with the liquid glass line and silver foil to create imagery for our multi-layer 10″ x 10″ Cave Painting which we will mount on aluminum for wall hanging. This is an advanced workshop and you should be able to cut glass. |
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 Master ClassMake larger fused glass pieces and take your art to a professional level! Participants in this Master Class will design and make a 20″ x 20″ wall piece with an aluminum backing plate – ready to hang on your wall. You will also fabricate a “La Londe-style” wavy stainless steel mold.We will work in the hot shop of Island Glass Studio with Rob Adamson where you will decorate and hand-roll sheet glass – one of these sheets will then be slumped into your metal mold. We will blow a glass piece. You will watch and learn from Michael Stadler who will photograph our glass art and then we will pack our glass work and metal mold to safely ship home.You should be proficient in glass cutting, glass fusing, and also have attended one of my workshops where you learned the “liquid glass line” technique, or by instructor’s permission. This Master class is limited to 6 artists and your participation will approved by instructor. |
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