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PDF TutorialsStep-by-step PDFs with patterns, glass colors, and notes from the kiln. These tutorials cover selected projects from the studio: Annie's most popular ornaments plus the Controlled Stringer technique. Not every piece in the gallery has a tutorial, only the projects Annie has fully developed step-by-step. Print them, mark them up, and fire something new from your own studio. New tutorials are added throughout the year.
Two projects in one tutorial: a rolling wave coming ashore, and a wave crashing onto rocks. 55 pages with dozens of illustrations, and four short videos where I show you how I do my frit application. No team of editors here, just me photographing every step as I make the piece.
The color of the season, worked in glass. White birches and maples turning red and gold, with a little cabin tucked back in the trees. All my patterns, glass colors, and kiln notes. 23 pages. Now comes with four short videos: rocks, clouds, evergreen trees, and leafy trees.
My biggest tutorial yet. Three different mountain scenes worked step by step, from the snowy peaks down to the trees and the water. 56 pages of patterns, glass colors, and notes from the kiln. Now comes with seven short videos, from shaping the peaks with powder frit to clouds, trees, sludge rocks, and water reflections.
A cheerful red cardinal on a holly branch. The first ornament I ever taught, still my favorite to make. 8 pages.
No two snowflakes alike, and that's the whole point. A friendly intro to overlapping clear and white glass.
Soft curves, iridescent blues, a gold bow. Good for someone you miss this season.
Many of you have melted stringers side by side. This takes it up a notch: lay stringers over clear glass for sunsets, palms, and painterly abstracts. 10 pages.
A dozen ornament projects gathered into one PDF, with materials lists and step-by-step photos for each.
A landscape of fused-glass trees, with stringer detail in the branches. Patterns and notes from the kiln for each layer. Now comes with five short videos: clouds, evergreen trees, leafy trees, and drawing and cutting palm fronds.
A quiet tree-scene panel. The simpler of the two tree tutorials. A friendly project if you're new to layered landscapes. Now comes with six short videos: frit dispersion, clouds, evergreen and leafy trees, rocks, and water reflections.
Coral, sea fans, bubbles. Layered turquoise and blue glass with luminescent accents. The companion to Underwater Fantasy in the Cobalt room.
A small wearable sunset. Made with fired enamels (Colors for Earth). A short project, good for a first try with enamels.
A way to use up all that scrap glass piling up next to the kiln. Build freeform textured backgrounds, any shape, any size that fits the kiln. 10 pages.
A couple of free tutorials, just for visiting the site. More may follow.
Simple feathers made from all that scrap glass piling up by the kiln. 7 pages.
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How different markers behave on clear, black, and white glass after firing. Samples fired up to 1380°.
Download the PDFQuick tricks Annie uses at the work table, a minute or less each.
