Kiln-Formed Glass: Beyond the Basics: Best Studio Practices *Techniques *Projects Paperback – 1 July 2014

Very good book for more advanced user. If you're inexperienced you might get a beginners book along with this one. Good luck either ways.

Terrific book. Loads of information on kiln maintenance and lots on glass tools. Great photos both of other artists' work and of steps in the many tutorial projects. Only quibble is that the index isn't detailed enough. I looked up metal clay in it found only a reference to a page with 3 paragraphs. Flipping through the book later, however, I found a 4 page tutorial on making a metal clay setting for glass jewelry, that isn't in the index.

I've been avidly collecting and reading "fusing" (kilnformed glass) books for about 20 years, and this may be the best single book on studio practice I've seen yet. As it says, it's not a beginner's book (Griffith's earlier book, Beginner's Guide to Kilnformed Glass, does that),. Rather, it's the book you'll want once you have a few successful kilnformed pieces under your belt and have begun to wonder if there's more to kilnforming than sushi dishes and bowls.It's divided into three sections (and Lark should really add some "look inside" samples to Amazon so you can see what I'm talking about). The first covers setting up and using a glass studio. The second deals with more advanced ways to decorate glass for firing (casting, 3D printing, airbrushing, sandblasting, box making, etc.). Spoiler alert: If you're into making jewelry, she's got some advanced tips for creating dichroic slabs and precious metal clay findings that you'll love.The third section, though, is where this book really shines. Griffith has experimented with applying other media techniques to glass practice, and they're pretty exciting. She shows you how to make your own glass pastels and glass clay (which can be fired in the kiln the way you can fire ceramics), create marbling effects with glass enamels, make your own roll-ups, and more.The information is presented in an exploratory, "I wanted to see what would happen if I..." fashion, which gets my own creative juices going. Griffith takes pains to explain exactly how she got to a certain point, which makes it very easy to use her explorations as a starting point for my own. She includes firing schedules for both glass and PMC, with a quite-proper "your mileage may vary" warning.About the only real criticism I'd have is minor: On a couple of projects Griffith takes you through the very well-illustrated steps but doesn't show the finished piece. There's so much else going on here, though, that I don't really miss it.

Mon épouse utlise ce livre pour faire de l'artisanat.

Some great stuff in this book, such as making your own pastel sticks from enamel powder and making abstract patterns on kiln paper before firering. The techniques are a wonderful place to jump off from with your own ideas and patterns.