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After a glass artist creates enough pieces there may be shoe boxes full of glass pieces. These are valuable! A screen melt is just one fun way to use these shards. A stainless steel screen is piled high with a variety of pleasing colors. It is fired to a high temperature of 1600-1700 degrees. Opening the kiln the next day is always interesting.
Choosing a pleasing combination of colors for a screen melt is a learning experience. Some colors can dominate such as black and brown so little is needed to be noticed while other colors may take longer to fully melt.
The ladybugs are sitting on top of a platter that has a screen melt in the center and is lined with another technique called strip cutting.
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