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This is a color study for a piece of art I'm making for a glass fusing class and I'm looking for a little feedback from people who appreciate the subject matter. I'm already planning to use a lot more yellow at the top of the sky and to make the sky very red at the horizon. I know I'm going to lose some detail for three reasons: the finished piece will be smaller than the study, I'll be translating the design from one medium to another, and I need to cut stencils for the new medium. I know I'll lose details like the strands of barbed wire--they are just too delicate to remain distinct. I may have to lose the crows, too. They may end up having too fine an outline. The technique is stenciling a sheet of white glass with colored glass powders and firing the glass to melt/fuse the powder to the sheet. The end result is a little like airbrushing and a little like watercolor but not as precise as either of those. anyway, I'm looking for feedback on the composition, color, and overall look. I want to have refined this some before i hit the studio on Monday. I'll photograph and post the final piece after it cools enough I can pull it from the kiln.

I'm not really an artistic person, so cant give you any feedback.
Just wanted to say that it sounds like a great project and I cant wait to see the finished pics.
Good luck!

MsM

well, i've never worked with this subject matter so can't really give you any feedback other than to say i like the picture. and if you put reds with it that will be very pretty. i'll have to check out your final piece. i do love art. good luck

haha meeps, look at us, we even posted about the same time. no wonder we are such good friends. lol.

MsM & hallorenescene,
You don't have be to artists to give feedback. Hearing that hallo thinks adding red will look good is useful feedback. Hearing that you both like where I seem to be going with it is useful feedback. It lets me know if other people are seeing some of what i'm trying to show. Because I drafted this, I have become accustomed to how it looks--I'm too familiar with the piece to see it any other way. Some fresh eyes might catch a subtle thing that I overlook now because i've looked at it a thousand times. All art has a subjective component and hearing how other people react to it can help me know if the work is conveying the message I want it to say. Most of the work on the forum wants to get a reaction like and we work hard to get animated zombies and FCGs that give ToTs that reaction. I'm aiming for a low level dread. That creeped out feeling you get when something relatively normal or average has something wrong about it and you just want to be farther away from it. When I was a kid, it was a tree in the neighbor's yard that always looked like it was reaching toward the sidewalk with long claws. By day it was just a tree, but at night....I hated that thing.
thanks for the feedback. i appreciate it.

I looked at this hard and I like it all! The addition of red will be great. Perhaps a bit of purple too but that's up to you. Or, make the black a purple-black.

Wonderful design, I'd buy one for sure.

I really like the detail you put into the original. Sorry to say I didn't realise that it was barbed wire to begin with until you mentioned it. Being a scarecrow I just thought it was part of his outfit coming apart. Pics of the outcome would be great. Are you going to be selling this to members here? What size are you looking at when it is finished. Will it be like a sun catcher with two hooks on top to hang in a window to let the sun pass through?

Terra,
Thanks for the input. making the black a purple black might be possible. I know there isn't any opaque purple powder in the studio--it's one of the gold colorant glasses and as the oz price of gold jumps, so does the pound price of this glass. I'll try an experiment this week with layering a transparent violet [colored with manganese and much cheaper] over black to see if any of the purple comes through. if it does, i think it could give the piece a little more realism. I was happy enough with the basic design work that i switched my avatar to use it. If I'm careful with the stencils i should be able to reuse them so I may make similar pieces if I can. i've also been looking at a blank canvas that has been sitting unsed for the past 2 years and thinking this could be what its been waiting for. regardless of how the stenciled glass turns out, i'm going to play with this design for a while. I'll post whatever i do with it to the forum.

Growler,
Thanks for the response.
I hadn't thought too far ahead. I suppose it could be a suncatcher, opaque glass does have a soft glow with light behind it. Wow. I hadn't thought about sales; I'm still trying to get the design dialed in and see if the piece turns out as envisioned. I'll cross that bridge once I know I'm not just slagging glass I'm just taking this glass fusing class while I wait for my home studio to finish getting the new exhaust system in so i can fire more powerful [thus more dangerous] torches. Stronger torches = stronger flame= bigger work and/or higher temperature materials = more possibilties realize designs, especially 3D stuff. I had only dabbled with fusing before so this is stretching my abilities a bit, but in the good way. One of the class assignments is to do a landscape of some kind using various opaque glass colors in powder form. the base glass should be about 5 3/4" h x 7 1/2" l and 6mm thick.

don't sweat missing the barbed wire detail. My wife thinks I'm obsessed with using it on scarecrows. i just think it's a nasty way to hang a scarecrow, particularly if it's hiding a person under the rags and straw.

looks perfect just the way it is!

Great art...