In this workshop we will show and/or discuss many uses of powdered glass enamels for painting, drawing, silk screening, and air brushing on glass. The workshop fee includes access to our classroom use enamels and tools (we'll be sharing) and some small sheet glass to use.
For home use, you'll need to buy powdered or pre-mixed enamels and mediums to mix them in if you like the process of images on glass.
You will learn how to mix up the powdered enamels, apply them with pen and ink tools, silk screen, and brush (though you'll have to develop your own techniques once you get involved with painting on glass), air brushing, and maybe some new surprises based on Rob's experimentation. We'll also discuss the various mediums available as well as mixing colors to get other colors using the starting colors of enamels available to us. Finally, we’ll discuss the firing (and schedules we use) of enamels applied to the glass.
Owl image courtesy of Cheryl Chapman
Rob Fleischner has been working in fused glass for 20+ years, both in production for lighting and for personal art endeavors. He's knowledgeable in all aspects of glass fusing, as well as having enough experience in glass blowing, lamp working, stained glass, and mosaics to be helpful in your glass journey. Rob's experience also includes production in metal, ceramic, fabric, plastic, wood, and other materials.
Rob's brother thinks he is annoying, but you get to decide for yourself :-) (oh, and his hair is longer and more gray now).
