About a year ago, a friend asked if I could make little people out of glass. He wanted them for a project he was working on. Around six months ago, I made him a simple man, and his reaction was, "Ahhhhhh, that looks a bit off." He then went to say that it looked like a Lego man. I went back home and thought of making some more.
I made another man with longer legs and it was acceptable. That was a good thing because people aren't the easiest to make. Oh yea, one other thing is this friend wants them made of reactive glass.
This morning, I decided to make a few more figures. I made one out of what I thought was copper green, a reactive turquoise color and a dark ivory glass. The first two were built without any issue. The last one was a bit different. When I was building it, it popped off my glass rod and fell to my bench. For those who have seen my bench, it is an absolute mess. When molten glass falls to it, the molten glass picks up whatever was below it. The dark ivory glass picked up some dark red. The glass was twisted and then made. It turned out to be an interesting color combination.
When I pulled them out of the kiln, only two of the people appeared to have made it. The copper green one was actually made of an olive green. The reactive turquoise didn't react the way I thought it would and the dark ivory man's leg began to fleck off. The reason for the flecking is that leg was up against the door in the kiln. The cooler air from the room leaked into the kiln and affected only that leg. I might be able to fix him tomorrow morning.
I also created more red dotted beads. Something that happened to my beads from yesterday was that some of the dot color didn't show up well. I was hoping that the beads I made today would all show up with defined dots. Boy did they. At least I know what I need to do to get the colors to fully show up now.
