Trying the Cloisonné Technique
on Fused Glass

Adventurer or Experimenter?

Some would say I am an adventurer. I've lived on a reef in the Caribbean, traveled here and there and have been self-employed a good part of my life. 

Since stepping into the kiln-formed glass world, I've become an experimenter. When I think about my next glass creation, I often look for a different technique to achieve a certain look. I've watched a number of videos and stumbled onto Cloisonné, an ancient technique for decorating metalwork objects. Tanya Veit of AAE Glass developed a cloisonné technique for fusing glass so I thought it could be an interesting project.

In Tanya's video she shows how to paint with wet enamel and dry enamel after engraving a piece. I purchased an 18K gold transfer from AAE glass and followed the steps in her video .... well, not exactly. After firing the transfer onto the contour fused slab, I engraved the glass in selected areas. I used a toothpick instead of a paint brush to apply wet enamel paint and used her schedule for firing the enamel and slumping the slab in one session. 

I plan to create another piece using her technique or one that is slightly modified.