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Someone told me this week "Be Brilliant at the Basics". They were talking customer service, but I think it applies to trying a new form of creativity as well. The first thing I want to do with glass is get very comfortable with how it works. I want to cut accurately and with minimum waste. I want to be able to match two different cut pieces together so that they fit the way I intend them to. I want the outcome of the fusing process to be what or at least close to what I expect.
For me this means repetition with trial and error. Right now, I'm doing 3" x 3" squares. Today I really worked on my cutting technique and I have to say I am really happy with the outcome. The stack of yellow tiles in the photo were all cut individually by hand, yet all 6 came out very close to identically. Each of the tiles laid out in the other photos below are actually two squares of glass stacked - clear on color. Again, as I worked on it, my methods improved so that the accuracy of the cuts created nearly identical squares to be fused together.
I started the project on Tuesday evening and finished today. All in all, it took me about 4 hours to make 27 tiles out of 54 cut squares. All of the glass is 3mm double-rolled Bullseye. I'll run a full fuse on them sometime this week.
