Glassdiversions.
This faboo program means that I get to play with frit, feed my
newly found full-blown frit addiction, and help fellow lampworkers
decide about certain frits by seeing them on different glasses and
using varied techniques.
It will also hopefully provide some serious eye candy for all!
All beads are made using a Hot Head Torch!
#0
Blend of blues, pinks, lavenders, and greens
Technique: Round with scrolling detail,
encased, and pressed
Comments: I am absolutely in love with
this frit. It is extremely versatile and
very well behaved. Has very different
look depending on the base color.
Non-reactive with rubino as a surface
decoration.
Scrolling with EDP, Pea Green, and
Light Sky blue. End rounds with
carnelian base
Technique: Round with scrolling
detail and pressed
Comments: Warm oranges and
peaches emerge the more this frit is
cooked when on this base. Slightly
reactive with pea green and sky blue.
#0 Opaque
Blend of blues and greens
Base color: Moretti Opal Yellow
Technique: Rolled in frit with copper
green stringer
Comments: The first bead was
respectfully not cooked, and turned out
very well, Some of the copper green
color remained and the veining was
clear and the colors bright. The second
bead however was duly fried and the
colors "muddied" and the copper green
turned grey against the frit.
8
Base color: Moretti opal yellow
Technique: Rolled it frit
Comments: Nice "bullseye" effect when
melted in and shaped..but not cooked.
Colors well defined.
Additional comments:
This is a very green frit. I didn't get the
blues to "pop" well, more beads to
come. Other testers have done this
bead on Moretti Light blue with much
more blue in the final bead.
1
Base color: Moretti Transparent light
amber
Technique: Frit over silver and encased
Comments: Beautiful organic look
with silver veining
2 and 3
Base color: Moretti Transparent light
amber
Technique: Frit over silver
Comments: Very nice silver veining
with popping green highlights
4 and 5
Base color: Moretti Transparent
Uranium Yellow
Technique: Rolled in frit
Comments: Slight veining, not all
colors showed on this color...but got
some nice subtle pale teal-ish
colors
#0
Blend of intense, mostly transparent aquas, greens, purples. and blues
1
Base Color:Moretti pale lavender
Technique: Rolled in frit and melted in. Lightly etched
2
Base Color: Moretti pale lavender
Technique: rolled in silver and frit, melted in with Medium Turquoise stringer detail
3
Base Color: Moretti pale lavender
Technique: rolled in silver and frit melted in and lightly etched.
4. ~ Same as #2
Comments:
Beautiful variations to this color when used with silver and reactive to turquoise.
Turquoise got a "rough" edge to it as well as center veining. Very "tribal" looking!
Didn't etch deeply