The String Experiment

As a former acrylic painter, I've been fascinated with acrylic pours, as well as string and chain pulls on canvas. 

The photo above is my first attempt at string pull painting on glass. The piece has two layers of glass measuring 4" x 8.5". Materials used include acrylic paint, COE96 glass, and cotton string. I approached the abstract design by loading paint onto a string and placing it on a piece of black glass. Then I slowly pulled the string in one direction to see what shapes would form. The lucky thing about working with glass is if you don't like the results of the pull, you can wash the paint off and start over. That is, if it hasn't been fused.

I have a few fusing schedules using enamel paints, so I stacked the black-painted piece of glass on a clear piece and fully fused. The results were better than expected. Not having a wide selection of colors, I used peach, marine blue, and white. The colors don't exactly pop against black, so I created two additional pieces: one black with more paint loaded on the string, and a white glass painting with brown, peach, and marine blue paint. (See a string painting on white glass .)

More paint in various colors should be here in a few days, and I will create a few more pieces. If you're interested in learning more about this process, please check back. 

(Glass is very difficult to photograph, reflections being a huge problem. The above photo is cropped to fit within the blog format.)