by AinsleyFrancis | Nov 17, 2014 | Studio, Test, Uncategorized
I forgot to tell you that I’ve moved into Edinburgh Contemporary Crafts. I taught an amusing fusing taster on Saturday where I showed people to make fused glass snowflakes, it was fun! More in the new year, in the meantime, a fuzzy picture of things I’m working on.

by AinsleyFrancis | Apr 2, 2012 | Bullseye Glass, Expirimentation, Reactions, Reactive, Test, Uncategorized
Here’s a quickie. I’m sure there are people out there who have been waiting for this, Bullseye just published this handy-dandy chart of reaction possibilities. Woot!
by AinsleyFrancis | Mar 22, 2012 | Bullseye Glass, Expirimentation, Kilncasting, Test
I’ve been playing with silver leaf, and gilding, which is kind of awesome. I found a 99.9% fine silver “water colour” paint, which I now love, but seem to have misplaced my pot of, somewhere around, which is annoying… My precision with the sample wasn’t amazing, but now that I know it works, I can practice with it, and see what it can do.
Also, I’ve been playing around with some pot melty things lately, mostly to re-use glass from expiriments that I didn’t like the results of, or leftover scrap and such. A lot of the things were reactive glass, so the results have been interesting, I think.
by AinsleyFrancis | Jan 11, 2012 | Bullseye Glass, Drawings, Expirimentation, Kilncasting, Reactive, Test
So, I did some tests with Bullseye reactive glasses a couple years ago, time for more… this time it’s French Vanilla, Dense White, Reactive Opal, and Reactive Ice, with a whole bunch of other stuff:
Fired in a 100 tile mosaic mould on the following program:
222°C/H to 538°C for 00:30
333°C/H to 816°C for 00:10
AFAP to 482°C for 2:00
56°C/H to 371°C for 00:01
AFAP to 15°C
So, extra fun is that the dense white boils at this temperature, I should do a test firing with it to see what temperature works without it boiling:
So, I got is out of the kiln this morning, and here’s what I got:
There are some neat reactions! Horrah! and only a few of the dense white tiles stuck to the mold, which I was worried would happen with all of them. I’ll try using it with fibre paper next time, and see if that helps with the sticking. There were no serious problems with Dense White used as an accent, just when it was used as a base, it sticks to the kiln wash like nobody’s business (yes, now we know why Bullseye only makes it in flameworking rod now, and lists it as “
Not recommended for kilnforming.“
For all the pictures, here’s an album. I’m going to play more now. Below the jump is a chart of what was in which tile.
Here’s a table showing what’s going on in each tile, woot!:
(DW) – Dense White
(SL) – Silver Leaf
(RO) – Reactive Cloud Opal
(RI) – Reactive Ice Clear
(CT) – Clear Tekta1116 – Turquoise Blue Transparent0305 – Salmon Pink Opal1137 – Medium Amber Transparent1305 – Sunset Coral
1417 – Emerald Green Transparent
1112 – Adventurine Green Transparent
1859 – Rhubarb Shift
Highlighted Colours are Frit
1 (FV) Silver |
11 (FV) Silver |
21 (DW) Silver |
31 (DW) Silver Red |
41 (RO) Silver |
51 (CT) (RO) Silver |
61 (RI) Silver |
71 (CT) (RI) (FV) (DW) |
81 (CT) (FV) Turquoise |
91 (CT) (FV) |
2 (FV) Turquoise Silver |
12 (FV) Turquoise Silver |
22 (DW) Turquoise Silver |
32 (DW) Turquoise Silver |
42 (RO) Turquoise Silver |
52 (CT) (RO) Turquoise Silver |
62 (RI) Turquoise Silver |
72 (CT) (RI) (DW) |
82 (CT) (FV) Turquoise |
92 (CT) (FV) Silver |
3 (FV) Turquoise |
13 (FV) Turquoise |
23 (DW) Turquoise |
33 (DW) Turquoise |
43 (RO) Turquoise |
53 (CT) (RO) Turquoise |
63 (RI) Turquoise |
73 (CT) (RI) Turquoise |
83 (CT) Turquoise |
93 (CT) (FV) Turquoise Silver |
4 (FV) Salmon |
14 (FV) Salmon |
24 (DW) Salmon |
34 (DW) Red |
44 (RO) Salmon |
54 (CT) (RO) Salmon |
64 (RI) Salmon |
74 (CT) (RI) Salmon |
84 (CT) Salmon |
94 (CT) Salmon |
5 (FV) Amber |
15 (FV) Amber |
25 (DW) Amber |
35 (DW) Amber |
45 (RO) Amber |
55 (CT) (RO) Amber |
65 (RI) Amber |
75 (CT) (RI) Amber |
85 (CT) Amber |
95 (CT) Amber |
6 (FV) Coral |
16 (FV) Coral |
26 (DW) Coral |
36 (DW) Coral |
46 (RO) Coral |
56 (RO) Coral |
66 (RI) Coral |
76 (RI) Coral |
86 (CT) Coral |
96 (CT) Coral |
7 (FV) Emerald |
17 (FV) Emerald Silver |
27 (DW) Emerald |
37 (DW) Emerald Silver |
47 (RO) Emerald |
57 (RO) Emerald Silver |
67 (RI) Emerald |
77 (RI) Emerald Silver |
87 (CT) Emerald |
97 (CT) Emerald |
8 (FV) Adventurine |
18 (FV) Adventurine Silver |
28 (DW) Adventurine |
38 (DW) Adventurine Silver |
48 (RO) Adventurine Cell |
58 (RO) Adventurine Silver |
68 (RI) Adventurine |
78 (RI) Adventurine Silver |
88 (CT) Adventurine |
98 (CT) Adventurine |
9 (FV) Rhubarb Silver |
19 (FV) Rhubarb |
29 (DW) Rhubarb |
39 (DW) Rhubarb Silver |
49 (RO) Rhubarb |
59 (RO) Rhubarb Silver |
69 (RI) Rhubarb |
79 (RI) Rhubarb Silver |
89 (CT) Rhubarb |
99 (CT) Rhubarb |
10 (FV) (DW) |
20 (FV) (DW) |
30 (DW) (FV) |
40 (DW) (FV) |
50 (RO) (FV) |
60 (RO) (DW) |
70 (RI) (DW) |
80 (RI) (FV) |
90 (CT) (DW) Rhubarb |
100 (CT) |