I don't have a picture I'm afraid, I just keep blocks of colour together. I also stand the strips on end. This melt had three holes in the pot as shown in the picture above and this contributed to the pattern that emerged. I deliberately made two smaller holes on either side of the large one. I don't think I added any clear glass. Here's a melt with a lot of clear in it plus I've added a border subsequently. Green/blue spectrum border: Pot melt of mainly Spectrum clear waterglass with tiny pieces of accent colours
I've experimented with different placement of holes and sizes and this contributes a great deal to the pattern which emerges in the melt. I've also fused some of my earlier smaller trial melts together, just to see what the effect would be.These smaller melts started out as three tiny pot melts in Bullseye Fusible glass which looked very nondescript when taken out of the kiln. Not content with these, I placed two of them back in a pot and left the other on a kiln shelf placed so that the melt would drop onto the pre-existing one. These were all done on fibre paper, not thinfire. I still didn't like the result nor the finish on the back of the resulting piece. The fibre paper seemed to have stopped the glass from flowing smoothly across the kiln shelf. After a few weeks deliberation during which time I got on with other melts,I decided to take one last shot at it and cut extra pieces of glass to go around the mishapen melt, added a few stringers and some extra pieces of glass and fused at 940 deg cent so that I could also add a few combs in the glass to make the plainer areas more interesting.
I'm more into beads these days. I can use up small pieces of scrap glass left over from making stained glass panels and accumulated over about 10 years.
Holes in pot
I don't have a picture I'm afraid, I just keep blocks of colour together. I also stand the strips on end. This melt had three holes in the pot as shown in the picture above and this contributed to the pattern that emerged. I deliberately made two smaller holes on either side of the large one. I don't think I added any clear glass. Here's a melt with a lot of clear in it plus I've added a border subsequently.
Green/blue spectrum border: Pot melt of mainly Spectrum clear waterglass with tiny pieces of accent colours
I've experimented with different placement of holes and sizes and this contributes a great deal to the pattern which emerges in the melt. I've also fused some of my earlier smaller trial melts together, just to see what the effect would be.These smaller melts started out as three tiny pot melts in Bullseye Fusible glass which looked very nondescript when taken out of the kiln. Not content with these, I placed two of them back in a pot and left the other on a kiln shelf placed so that the melt would drop onto the pre-existing one. These were all done on fibre paper, not thinfire. I still didn't like the result nor the finish on the back of the resulting piece. The fibre paper seemed to have stopped the glass from flowing smoothly across the kiln shelf. After a few weeks deliberation during which time I got on with other melts,I decided to take one last shot at it and cut extra pieces of glass to go around the mishapen melt, added a few stringers and some extra pieces of glass and fused at 940 deg cent so that I could also add a few combs in the glass to make the plainer areas more interesting.
I'm more into beads these days. I can use up small pieces of scrap glass left over from making stained glass panels and accumulated over about 10 years.