NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE

We are including all our past Masters Glass Art Newsletters for you to read.  We hope you find them informative.

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Masters Glass Art Newsletter

January 2008

 

Welcome everyone to the first Masters Glass Art Newsletter of 2008!

Can you believe it's a New Year!  Are you all rested up from the Holidays?  We took a vacation in the middle of December and then we had a quiet Christmas and New Year's Day.  After that we started making glass art again.  When we don't have an Art Festival coming up, we can work on glass projects that we don't find the time to do, otherwise.

One of those glass projects has been to finish slumping a couple of glass plates.  The glass we used is called Black and Clear Baroque and each glass plate looks so different from the others.  We are going to make more sets of glass plates with different designs.  These glass plates are great for entertaining guests and they are all one-of-a-kind.  To see more of our glass plates, click here http://www.mastersglassart.com/catalog280810.html.  

I also fused a couple of other glass plates - similar to the plate on the left.  I made two 11" square pieces of glass that have blotches of yellows, reds, and whites making a pattern with the blotches all going in the same direction.  I cut the two pieces of glass into four triangles and then swapped two triangles between the two pieces of glass.  This way the pattern points to the center or circles around the center, depending on the plate.  One of these plates would look great as a centerpiece or, if purchased as a set, will impress your guests!  Check out our other glass plates here: http://www.mastersglassart.com/catalog280810.html!  

Be sure to check out our website for new pieces, including many new pendants: http://www.mastersglassart.com/products289162.html.

Until next time…  

David and Christine 

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Masters Glass Art Newsletter

November 2007

Welcome to all the new subscribers to our Newsletter!  Also, a warm hello to everyone else!  

We are in the middle of the Christmas Craft Fair Season, so we are keeping very busy! 

 

We just got back from the Roseburg Business and Professional Women’s Craft Fair.  We met a lot of nice people.  We had a Free Drawing for a beautiful Glass Bowl and Esther S. was the winner!  She was so excited to have won the bowl!  

 

Our next two Art Festivals are combined in one event spread over two separate weekends:

Christmas Bazaar in Portland, Oregon Expo Center

Dates: Nov. 23-25, 2007 and Nov. 3, Dec. 1-2, 2007

This is a huge Bazaar!  There are 1,000 booths.  We haven’t been to this one before, so we don’t know what to expect, and it will be the largest fair we’ve ever attended.  We are making as much glass as we can!  When we find out what survives the weekends, we’ll add them to the website, and the rest will go straight to the gallery page. 

 

We added a “New Featured Glass Plate for November.”  It is one of my favorite glass plates, because I love the basket weave look.  We named it “Colorful Cross Hatch.”  This glass plate is a gorgeous centerpiece for any table.  The beautiful iridized glass changes colors as you move it around in the light.  To see this glass plate, click here. 

 

Christmas is coming up and you need to find that special gift for a good friend or relative, so don’t forget to check out all of our Glass Pieces.  We have a lot of gorgeous dichroic pendants and more will be added in the next couple of weeks.  We are making glass snowflake ornaments, a few vases and candle holders, a snowman sun catcher and don’t forget about our Fused Grey Goose Vodka Bottles.  

 

We hope those of you that are able will stop in and visit at the Christmas Bazaar.  As a special offer to our newsletter recipients, anyone bringing a copy of their newsletter to the Christmas Bazaar will get 15% off anything they purchase at our booth.  Forget the newsletter?  Just tell us you want the Newsletter Special, and you’ll still get 10% off your purchases at our booth. 

 

Until next time... 

David and Christine

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 Masters Glass Art 

September 2007 Newsletter 

 

Dave and I just got back from the Festival of the Arts in Brookings, Oregon. We had so much fun talking with people about our glass art.  

  

We had a free drawing for a peppermint glass bowl.  Denise N. was the winner of the bowl.  At the end of the Festival, we had a customer pick the winner.  We recognized the name, because she was just at our booth and bought a nice glass piece for her niece.  Since she had just been at our booth, I thought that she might still be wondering around the Festival.  So, I grabbed the bowl and ran around the booths.  Everyone was breaking down their booths, so there weren’t many customers.  When I got to the end of the line, I turned to look inside the cool little shops that were right there.  I saw a couple of people in the bookstore and went in to see if Denise was in there.  

 

Wow, what luck!!  She was there!!  She was so excited to have won the bowl – she just loved it.   

 

As I was walking out of the store, I got the idea to take her picture with the bowl.  So, I turned around and went back in the store to ask her if I could take her picture.  She said “ok.”  However, I didn’t have my camera with me, so I ran back to our booth and grabbed the camera and ran back to get her picture.   

 

I posted her picture with the glass bowl on our Glass Blog Page:   You will need to click on the September link to see this particular posting. 

Thanks so much to everyone who entered the drawing!  I wish I could have given everyone a glass bowl.

Now we are busy getting ready for our next Festival.  It's called the Bandon Cranberry Festival in Bandon, Oregon.   It takes place on September 8 and 9, only one week away.   I really need to make a bunch of glass, since I sold quite a bit at the Brookings Festival. 

 

Don’t forget to visit our website:  Masters Glass Art.   We still have a nice selection of our glass art. 

Until next time...

Dave and Christine

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Masters Glass Art

Summer 2007 Newsletter

 

Dave and I decided to do a few outdoor Festivals this summer. We have been accepted for the MidSummers Dream Art Music Festival in Ashland, Oregon, June 16 and 17, 2007. We are very excited about this Festival!!

We haven't done an outdoor show before, so we had to buy a new canopy.  We may have to make some adjustments in our booth layout, too.  

I have been experimenting with the drop ring mold.  Click here to see some of our Glass Vases.  One glass vase that I made, I placed different colors of glass on the two layers of fused clear glass. During the drop mold firing, I needed to do a tack fuse to melt the colored glass to the clear glass. Tack fusing means that I let the glass soak at 1200 degrees until the colored glass had just melted to the clear glass, but still kept its original shape.  Visit our Glass Vases and Glass Candle Holder Page.  I have been incorporating my glass lace in some of these glass drop ring vases, too. 

We bought a new drop ring mold that is 11” in diameter on the outside of the ring and a 7” hole in the middle.  We are planning on placing the ring mold right on the shelf with no posts to prop it up.  The result will be some lovely plates.

Speaking of plates, Dave is starting a series of plates called “Broken Hearts.”  They will literally have a broken sheet of glass fused into them as part of the design.  Each one will be unique, because the glass will fracture randomly, but the plates can be used as a set with matching design elements.  We hope you love them.

Dave and Christine

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Masters Glass Art

 Spring 2007 Newsletter

 

Hard to believe it is spring already!  My crocuses are coming up and should open up any day now.  I love the spring flowers all you have to do is plant them, put some fertilizer on them and watch them come up, to remind us that spring is coming. 

Anyway, back to GLASS!! I am getting ready for the Spring Fair from March 23-25, 2007 at the Douglas County Fairgrounds in Roseburg, Oregon.  I have been making lots of different Glass Items, such as Glass Pendants, and more Glass Pendants, Glass Earrings, Glass Spoon Rests, Glass Bowls and Fused Vodka Bottles Trivets.  I plan on making some Glass Sun Catchers, a larger Glass Bowl (from a new mold that I just bought), a couple of medium-sized Glass Plates (another new mold), a Large Glass Plate, a couple Glass Candle Holders (another new mold), and some Glass Lace. 

I made three different kinds of Glass Lace one day.  One of them I used red opal medium glass frit (small pieces of glass) and made an oval stencil. This one turned out differently than I had planned, but I like the look of it.  I didn’t add enough glass frit, so the lines of red glass were very thin and the holes are very large.   It wasn’t in a whole piece, so I decided to break it up a little and fuse it to some white opal glass for a Glass Pendant.  I actually made two of them and they turned out very nice! I call this one "End of Lava Flow."  Another Glass Lace piece I made, I used yellow opal glass frit and used a 7” circle for a stencil.  I didn’t add enough glass frit for this one either, so I decided to add more glass frit and fired it again.  It came out much better this time.  I think I will fuse it to some other glass and then make a Glass Plate.

The glass items that I sell at the Craft Fair, I will post on our Website on the Gallery Page for you to see. The glass items that I don’t sell, I will add to our Website for sale. Wish me luck for the Craft Fair and hope to see you there!!

David and Christine