OK, now, keep in mind that these still have a lot to go through: they'll get a clear glass cover sheet fused to them, and they'll get a pendant bail attached. The fusing process will smooth the edges by melting them, as the upper glass is a little larger than the lower, so they get sort of curved as the upper glass slumps in the kiln.

Also, I noticed that on the finished pieces at the glass fusing studio, the dichroic had acquired some interesting texture, almost little crackles in some cases, that looked really cool. I don't know what will happen to this particular glass we're using when it's fired, but I expect it to change somehow. I hope it's a good change.

Finally, the glass appeared blue to me in the shop, but it's got a lot of green in it when I see it now. Dichroic glass changes color based on what angle you see it from, so it's blue and then it's blue-green and then it's green and then it's almost yellow-green. That's the nature of it.

We'll see what the firing process does to them. Meanwhile, here's where we're at, splotches and all. (And yes, some are splotchier. We're doing some clean-up. A few came out without their beads, and we'll be fixing those. It's art.)

Big thanks and praise to our artist, Amanda Downum! (And to evilwhitetiger, who added the bead, worked to size the image properly, and has been a mighty stenciller.)

P.S. Those pictures are shots of one piece from different angles. See how much the color varies? Yay, dichroic! It'll pick up the cool metallic-shimmeryness in the fusing process, as the other glass and the heat work on it, I believe.