More glass painting

Oh the excitement, oh the joy!

OK, I know I'm getting a little crazy but I've been doing lots more glass painting ...

I have been playing with little iconic images that I've used in my PMC Silver work ~ rubber stamps, drawings, and so on... expanding into a painted form of some of these, like so:

And then I started thinking about all the paper arts and what other kinds of things one can do with paint and a surface. So, I started playing with things you can only do with paint: Layering, interacting, creating dimension. I had already tried the watercolor effect (see below) but I wanted to drop paint on paint and see how it interacted with graphic images, like so:

And then, as I was layering one piece with some stripes, I remembered something...

One of my favorite things is to marbleize paper or fabric. So before the paint dried, I made up some marbled pieces:

What I learned is that the pastel-like tones of the glass paint take on a richer, more intense color when fired. I also noticed that nearly all the glass painting I've done - especially when it is laid on thickly - creates an orange peel texture, not unlike enamels when they're underfired.

So I am loving this new addition to the toolbox... and will need to determine if I'm firing them incorrectly. But for now, I'm enjoying the play on texture and color.