8th Grade Prepares for the Light

8th Grade students have been developing their image transfer skills over the past few months. Working through a variety of techniques and materials, students are now creating final collages for a gel medium photo emulsion transfer onto a tyvek hanging lamp shade. Utilizing, magazine images, photo copy prints, and hand drawn designs, 8th graders have made an original 11"X34" design for their own hanging lamp. Students will be adding color using transferred color, and added color (sharpie, paint marker, watercolor, etc). The lamps will be alight and on display at this year's TBS Student Art Show.

6th Grade: One-Of-A-Kind Hand Made Table Lamps

Over the last few months, 6th Grade students explored multiple materials that can create layers of color and design, and the effects of light and shadow on the layers they created. 

6th grade students are making a lamp from "scratch" (cord is included) using tyvek, watercolor, silhouettes, and other materials for the lampshade. The explorations students engaged in strengthened their overall understanding of the materials they used to design and make their lamps. Students used hand building techniques to construct the base for their table lamps.

All 6th Grade table lamps will be alight and on-view at this year's TBS Student Art Show.

7th Grade Final Fusing

7th Grade students have explored the technique of fused glass over the last couple months. Students previously learned about the nature of glass and the chemical process that occurs when heated to high temperatures. After creating holiday decorations, personal designs, and "puddles," students focused their design skills on constructing a final single piece. Students were supplied with a plethora of glass in different sheets, colors, and sizes. They learned how to use a glass cutter, wear proper eye wear, and how to place the glass in their design to create colorful fusion effects.

Students are constructing simple frames for their fused glass artwork so that it may sit upright on a windowsill with sunlight, or on a tabletop with a battery powered/low watt light source. These art pieces will be on view at this years TBS Student Art Show.

7th Grade Fuses Glass Using the Studio's Ceramic Kiln

7th grade has been exploring the world of fused glass in the Art Studio. With careful attention to detail and safety, students learn about "cutting" glass through scoring and cracking and how glass has a surface tension that causes it to always melt to a height of a 1/4", unless contained within a mold.
Students will create a finished fused glass lighted art piece for this years TBS Student Art Show.

Students enjoyed learning about and exploring this technique from Helios Glass Studios in Austin, Texas.

Fused Glass "Puddles"

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What’s a “puddle”?Component making is a big part of working with fused glass.  Pot melts, pattern bars, and powder wafers are just a few of the things we make that become parts of bigger projects This tutorial shows you one of the easiest to make and most useful components, something we call “puddles”.

The technique takes advantage of two of the most important glass properties:

1) Surface Tension:

When glass melts it seeks a height of 6 mm (1/4 inch).  You can thank surface tension for that. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_tension)

2) Gradual Melting

As glass is heated, it melts - and softens - gradually. This allows glass to fuse together without colors mixing completely (the way ice cubes made from colored water would mix if allowed to melt together in a drinking glass).

Click here to link to the full tutorial.

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