When 2 Coats Are Not Enough!

Magenta is not burgundy!

I want Burgundy!

                       

Two coats of paint on some of the dresser helped. I laid a first coat

on the drawer faces. The color definitely deepened, but the difference between magenta and deep burgundy is huge. Basically this color screams HOT PINK! I do not like hot pink!

So what's next? On the advice of an artist (painter), I will investigate streaking the surface with burnt umber. That should deepen the tone. If that doesn't work, I will mix my own paint and start again.

I still haven't had a chance to get everything coated with at least one layer of paint, so it's time to remove the mirror and have at the back facing of it. 

It'll be two weeks before I get back to the dresser. Meanwhile, my mirror plans are firming up. See you on the 19th!

Learning to draw

Thanks to the folks in my critique group, Esther and I enrolled in a PCC class called:
SO you think you can't draw!
We meet for two hours weekly and although I can't claim any talent for drawing I can say with certainty that I am learning how to see and my drawings aren't mysterious marks on paper...they actually bear a resemblance to the objects I see before me. I am gaining confidence and am hopeful that I will eventually be able to apply my new skills to my glass work.

If you are interested in  my instructor's contact info...here it is!
Jill Jeffers Goodell
Monthly Newsletter: http://jillgoodell.blogspot.com
Website: http://www.jillgoodell.com/
Blog: http://notes-from-glastonbury.blogspot.com/

Seder Plate for OJM

The Oregon Jewish Museum in Portland will be hosting another fund raising auction in May. This is the new seder plate I made for that event. The glass is remarkable and a new experiment for me. The base is a new reactive glass made by bullseye glass. It is a clear iridized reactive glass. That means that when it comes in contact with copper, gold or silver it will cause an interesting reaction. 

I used copper foil to make the letters and decorated the plate with turquoise frit and stringer. The reaction was neat....turned the glass a speckled red in places and cast a reddish shadow in others. Unfortunately the photo doesn't show the reaction as well as I'd like.

The back of the plate is textured offering the plate a depth color (even though the plate is transparent). Six condiment dishes come with the plate. It's called Reactivity and Wandering. We were a reactive people as we wandered the desert trying to learn how to be Jews. There were spiritual and physical highs and lows. This plate brings a reminder to the seder table of our struggles and our successes.

Please come out and support OJM Sunday May 3rd. 

Check them out at http://www.ojm.org/

A little love in the bowl

Welcome to my blog!

My name is Eddy Shuldman and I've been working in fused glass for the past 5 years, focusing mostly on Judaic themes.

Glass has become a passion.

I invite commentary on my work as well as responses to the occasional questions that I'll pose.

Recently I was commissioned to create 22 blue bowls for a wedding. These bowls were all approximately 15 inches in diameter and featured the word Ahavah which is the Hebrew word for love.

Pictured above is a striker pink version; the letters have been crafted from dichroic glass.

I am proud to use Bullseye glass in my work and feel blessed to live in Portland, Oregon, so close to the factory.

I belong to an artists group named ORA: Northwest Jewish Artists.

Google us to land on our website....I seem unable to post the actual address!