Messy Color™ Obsidian Ltd Run

511805 - Sold Out

Obsidian Ltd Run (511805)<br />A extremely dark transparent gray.

A extremely dark transparent gray.


"These are made with Zimmermann Z921 Aquamarine frit and fine silver foil over Obsidian. The focal was flashed quickly through a light reduction flame and it has taken on a kind of Peacock-ish sheen." Read more at Kitzbitz Art Glass' blog. – Jolene Wolfe

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Messy Obsidian as core
Melanie Graham
Jolene Wolfe
Messy Obsidian, a layer of fine silver, melted in, reduced, and encased with clear
Dwyn Tomlinson
Messy Obsidian
Gloria Sevey
Obsidian with DH Aurae Light
Darlene Collette

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  • Special thanks to Genea Crivello-Knable for providing the photos in this section.

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Obsidian with DH Psyche.
– Sue Stewart
Obsidian with TAG Tibet.
– Sue Stewart
Obsidian with DH Terra Nova 2.1.
– Sue Stewart
"I wafted each very quickly in a propane rich reduction flame and the resulting reaction is this beautiful peacock shimmer which is so hard to capture in a photograph." Read more at Kitzbitz Art Glass' blog.
– Jolene Wolfe
"These are made with Zimmermann Z921 Aquamarine frit and fine silver foil over Obsidian. The focal was flashed quickly through a light reduction flame and it has taken on a kind of Peacock-ish sheen." Read more at Kitzbitz Art Glass' blog.
– Jolene Wolfe
"This is a base bead of Obsidian, Taxco and Med Purple, melted in, reduced, and encased. . . This is awesome - I love these colours." Read more at DragonJools blog.
– Dwyn Tomlinson
"And Obsidian is gorgeous with silver glass. It brought out nice colour in my TerraNova2 frit, and it did absolutely wonderful things with my reducing silver glass frit." Read more at Melanie's blog.
– Melanie Graham
"The Obsidian does bleed out into the Opal Yellow, but in a very pleasing way - the warm grey/brown working nicely with the warm, buttery Opal Yellow. The end result is a sort of toasted zebra effect." Read more at DragonJools blog.
– Dwyn Tomlinson
"Obsidian with Triton, reduced and fumed a little. Not sure that it is amazingly more effective than on anything else - but you can see that the bead Triton is reflective enough to show the pink t-shirt I was wearing while shooting it!" Read more at DragonJools blog.
 
– Dwyn Tomlinson
"Here is Obsidian on Ivory. I gave this quite a lot of heat - to see if it would break up, crawl, web, or otherwise do something interesting. And, as a matter of fact - it did." Read more at DragonJools blog.
– Dwyn Tomlinson
"When combined with silver glass, the surface fumes a beautiful metallic. With Triton, it is an amazing midnight blue!" See more at Darlene's blog.
– Darlene Collette