Use Fused Colored Dots As Highlights In
A Fused Glass Art Pendant

This type of pendant is very simple to cut and assemble. Scrap pieces of glass can be used to form the dots. If you wish you can use scrap pieces of dichroic glass matched against the base glass color.

You can use either Bullseye glass or System 96 glass for this piece of fused glass art.

You will need the following items to make this project:

Two pieces of base glass, cut 1 1/4 inches square.

Cut pieces of different colored glass of varying sizes.

Piece of thin fire paper or kiln washed shelf.

Step 1. Cut base glass, color is very much your choice.

Step 2. Cut irregular small shapes of colored glass.

Step 3. Wash, clean and dry glass.

Step 4. Stack base glass on protected kiln shelf. Arrange colored glass on top of the base glass in a random pattern. Try to keep the pieces away from the edge to stop the base glass bulging on the edges.

Step 5. Place shelf in the glass fusing kiln and slowly bring the kiln up to fusing temperature. Hold glass at fusing temperature for 15 minutes, if fully fused turn off kiln and let it cool to room temperature.

A variation of this process is to allow the colored dots to only partially fuse into the base glass so that the dots form a raised surface around the base glass.

Another interesting approach is to use clear glass for the base and place transparent pieces of colored glass around the clear glass.

The following picture is a fully fused pendant on a white base with different colors.