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SO MUCH CREATIVE SEARCH FOR THE UNEXPECTED.. HAD THREE TRANSPARENT, DIFFERENT HUES, LAYERS OF GLASS POWDER DONE LAST WEEK.. HAD FIRE SCALE ON BACK AND NEEDED TO SCRAPE AND CLEAN THAT OFF AND RE DO WITH GLUE AND FLUX (TRANSPARENT GLASS), BECAUSE FRONT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN TAKING, WHAT I HAD ENVISIONED.. LIKED THE FIRE SCALE VERY MUCH.. BUT.. WELL.. WENT THROUGH THE PROCESS AND APPLIED OPAQUE HUES.. CREME FOR BREAK THROUGH OF BENEATH.. AND ON TOP OF THAT FRENCH BLUE, FOR BREAK THROUGH TOO.. BAKED IT, AND I ENJOYED HUES AFTER FIRING.. BUT NEW FIRE SCALE ON BACK.. AGAIN.. LOKED THE FIRE SCALE.. HAD TO SCRUBB, PUT IN ACID, CLEAN AND RE APPLY GLUE AND FLUX.. UNDER HEAT LAMP, FOR IT TO SET.. AND THEN, GLENN BRIGGS, GREAT GLASS ARTISAN, FIRED IT FOR ME ON 1700 DEGRESS, TO GET MORE BREAK THROUGH OF BOTTOM HUES APPLIED.. DID NOT HAPPEN MUCH.. BUT WAS GLAD, DID NOT GET ADDITIONAL FIRE SCALE.. HAPPY TOO, THE DARK DESIGN OF PREVIOUS FIRE SCALE STAYED KIND OF.. ONLY GLAZED WITH APPLIED FLUX.. SO I COULD CONTINUE MY CREATIVE PROCESS WITH THREE MORE, SAME HUE AS BEFORE.. TRANSPARENT GLASS LAYERS.. DESIGNED IN SPACES, I FELT, I WANTED.. THE RESULT, YOU SEE HERE.. ALL THESE FIGURRES ETC. ARE REFLECTIONS OF HUES IN LIGHT.. MIGHT PURSUE THOSE NEXT TIME.. WANT TO DO FIGURES.. IN VEILS.. MIGHT NOT BE.. SO.. WILL SEE.. WILL UPLOAD FOUR VERSIONS - TAKEN IN SAME LOCATION AND PLACEMENT.. BUT VARIOUS REFLECTIONS FROM EACH SIDE.. MIGHT DO A SERIES THAT WAY.. HM.. TWELVE INCH DIAMETER. Will be offerred for acquisition, once completed. 12.0