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Sorry I hate to say but this is not the real plique a Jour. This is very much taking shortcuts. Real plique a jour is orders of magnitude more difficult to do in terms of skill and time.
No dust mask ? You're giving a very bad example, the enamel dust is invisible, and is permanently deposited in your lungs. It will will keep damaging your lung tissue. ☠️
Thank you they are copper discs that I hammer inside for texture & make concave which gives allows the light to bounce off & give more depth of color. They have also been enameled & fired several times over to achieve that vivid blue.
Hi! Are we allowed to ask questions about enameling here? If so, when firing the 2nd side of something being enameled, is there any risk of the 1st side softening out of shape or melting?
Is there a service somewhere here in the USA, where we can send them our glass pieces, and they fuse them in the kiln, and send us the fused product back?
Love this. Raunchy irreverent pop art with real world utility. Brilliant. Reminds me of this traumatic memory I have of making this really ornate vase in ceramics II at Las Vegas Academy of visual and performing arts, the teacher thought it looked like a bong and destroyed it in front of the class. I was super innocent then.in restrospect, it looked more like a hookah pipe honestly. So the fact that you guys are making paraphernalia at your school without judgement is in a way cathartic for me.
