Work in Progress

...kilnformed glass can start out more like an exercise in collage.  Given the challenge of coming up with a 'demo' piece for my company's website featuring some new products, I first grabbed a bunch of random sized and colored circles of Uroboros System 96 thin transparent glass* and attached them to a square foot of 12-56-96 Black Streamer Bits on Clear (also Uroboros System 96 Fusible) in a pleasing pattern.  Note - the piece is upside down at this point.  I attached the clear 1.8mm thick circles to the 'bottom' of the Black/Clear because I want the depth of the clear on top.  I'll flip it to fire it.  Also.  I'm not. Done. Yet.

The entire 1 square foot piece.

A detail shot.

Hot glue works great for temporary attaching of elements to be fused.  It's sturdy enough to withstand some schlepping around of the piece - as long as you are reasonably careful.  I don't know if it's visible in the detail (it does enlarge if you click on it) but the glue is applied like sewn stitching of the circles onto the base glass.

In the next picture, I have 'flipped' the glass an am now working on the 'top' surface.  I have so far assembled (but not glued yet) "Noodles" and "Stringer" of glass in mostly clear as another layer of the piece.  I'm thinking of a textile-like final appearance.  So I'm not done yet.  These will be attached on one side only with the hot glue gun and then I'll see if I can 'weave' another layer at a 90 degree angle to the horizontal lines.  'cept I seem to have run out of clear Noodles...

The entire piece with first 'top' layer laid out.

& a detail of that.

Got a little gluing project ahead of me, but first I've gotta get outside to take care of the leaves in the yard before it starts raining again.  

*random sized circles don't just 'appear' of course - others are also working on demos and had cut some out & I cut some more too.  I'm all about the mini circle cutting tool!