Typically “much less” is simply sufficient. Particularly on the subject of color. This little weblog is concerning the pleasure of white glass and the various methods I’m utilizing it in the mean time. You’ll be able to order any of those items in any of my “regular” sizes. Simply let me know.
River Marne
My favorite all white glass design is one which takes lots of affected person work to provide however I like the end result so I preserve making it. Right here goes: the design is named RIVER MARNE. Its in France.
The Celts of Gaul worshipped a goddess often called Dea Matrona (the “divine mom goddess”) who was related to the River Marne. The Marne was navigable as a free-flowing river till the nineteenth century. It had one gated 500 m shortcut, the Canal de Cornillon in Meaux, which was in-built 1235, which is the oldest canal in France.
In World Conflict I, the Marne was the scene of two notable battles. Within the First Battle of the Marne (September 1914), the navy governor of Paris, Common Joseph Gallieni, took the initiative in driving the Germans again from the capital, rendering their complete ar-plan inoperative. Within the Second Battle of the Marne (July-August 1918), the final main German offensive on the Western Entrance was defeated by an Allied counter-attack, main ultimately to the Armistice. That is fascinating – however not why I’ve a chunk of glass known as RIVER MARNE!
With a really expensive pal who has now sadly handed away, we had been driving from Bayeux in Normandy to Paris to see Disneyland and stopped for the night time at a lodge that was proper on the sting of the River Marne.
I’d performed a little bit of travelling, however being from Adelaide in South Australia, it was very chilly and I’d by no means seen ice flowing down a river earlier than. The rivers in South Australia look extra brown than white!
I used to be mesmerized and terrified on the identical time. The pace of the water was astonishing and the dimensions of the ice was stunning.
There are many ridiculously enjoyable tales from this in a single day keep however one enduring reminiscence was the blocks of ice storming down the river.
So in fact as I’m all the time impressed by nature I used to be all the time going to make a chunk of glass with common however irregular items of white on a mattress of clear glass, wasn’t I? Right here’s how I did it.
I began with graph paper, I’ve liked utilizing graph paper since college, and it’s very useful when making intricate designs! I begin with some paper glue (like Elmers) and buy a bundle of white stringers and lie them on the graph paper and tack fuse them and lower all of them into 2cm strips. You’ll be able to see some outcomes under with black stringers on clear glass. (Its simpler to see black on clear which is why I’m displaying you this right here.) Stringers of all kinds are all the time accessible to college students for incorporate into their designs. They’re in a field within the studio marked “half sheets” – its stuffed with surprises for you anytime you need to discover one thing uncommon!
I do that with white stringers after which add it to the centre of my RIVER MARNE design. I’ve made it in dozens of various configurations and dimensions and I’m completely happy to make one for a particular reward for you anytime. Beneath you’ll be able to see a number of the completed items utilizing this method.
On the left, “Paris Class” is a mixture of black and white stringers. It and “London Style” and “Snow and Skis” are all the time highly regarded when paired with fashionable, monochromatic kitchens, as is “River Marne”. I feel I’ll be making these designs for so long as I make glass!
So again to white glass … properly, creating opaque white glass is definitely an historic artwork, since vessels had been made as early as 1500 B.C. in Egypt. Sure, white has been a preferred color for glass for hundreds of years! The favored time period “milk glass” nearly all the time refers back to the opaque white glass that was common from round 1835 by means of to the Nineteen Eighties in America and England. Newbie collectors of older glass gravitate to exploit glass as a result of it’s lovely, comparatively simple to search out, and really reasonably priced.
These days I’m able to purchase giant sheets of glass that’s principally clear with some whispy threads of opaque white on it. A full sheet of glass measures 1200mm x 610mm, you’ll be able to see on this picture a half sheet that measures 610mm x 610mm. My college students and I’ll lower this as much as make any variety of items or sculptures or no matter.
I simply find it irresistible so I believed you’d wish to see some items I’ve made utilizing this fabulous “whispy white”.
You’ll be able to see half a sheet of this superb whispy white glass under. It’s not low-cost, however the outcomes are very good. It’s nice by itself or together with white stringers. Beneath the half sheet you’ll be able to see quite a lot of designs utilizing this glass.
Over time I’ve made different designs, in all white, I had one known as Weddell Sea, I haven’t made that for ages. WHITE LINEN (far left, under) is perennially common.
I made one piece the place I lower whispy white glass into strips which are 1cm broad and laid them on their facet and fused them. Checkout the outcome within the center under. Let me know if you wish to do this approach, its known as ‘STRIP CUT’, and you are able to do it with any of the glass right here or I could make a chunk for you. PICK UP STICKS is all the time a buyer favorite. It used to promote particularly properly at craft markets for some motive, after I used to do these.
In fact you’ll be able to add one factor to white and in addition create one thing actually fantastic. The woven platter you see above is a Bespoke Order for a buyer in New Zealand utilizing principally clear glass and white whispy with a contact of a greeny glass we name “Bitter Apple”. Bitter Apple is definitely a white base of glass with moss inexperienced swirled by means of it by the glass chemist who makes the glass. Let me know if you wish to see extra artwork made with Bitter Apple, I’d be completely happy to point out it to you. The consumer completely raved about this design, it was precisely what she had envisaged. Should you ever desire a particular piece designed so that you can go well with your house’s decor simply head right here: jenieyolland.com/contact-us
White glass can be completely my favorite for my SPLAT CLOCKS, and splat coaster units – you’ll be able to see some under. These have been safely posted everywhere in the planet and are liked by folks in every single place.
So now you recognize the names of those completely different white glass artwork items you’ll be able to simply organize them from me, or come into my Richmond Studio (by appointment) and create one your self.
Do get in contact – It’ll be enjoyable.
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