This class is now full, but a wait list is available.
Images in Glass
Roger Thomas

Tuition $775
Deposit $400

Fri. thru Mon., Nov. 9 -12, 2007
10 am - 5 each day

This course focuses on design and process for landscape in fused glass as Roger Thomas shares his techniques and philosophy of his Glass Paintings. Roger is known to students for the varied and unusual glass fusing techniques with which he creates his art.
During this class the student will complete four landscape sample pieces as Roger discusses and demonstrates how he creates color, depth and translucency in his work.

 This class is now full, but a wait list is available.
Thinking Painting, Using Fusing
Roger Thomas

Tuition $975
Deposit $500

Wed. thru Sun., Nov. 14 -18, 2007 10 am - 5 pm each day

Come and explore further the boundaries between glass and the pictorial arts as Roger shares his techniques for designing and rendering landscapes in fused glass in this constantly changing course, designed for the accomplished fuser who wants to expand into a more pictorial medium as well as the accomplished painter or draughtsman wishing to expand into fused glass.

In this course students will make samples of different
techniques for landscapes, as well as a larger landscape
project using the techniques they will develop in class.

Prequisites are either good fusing skills or good painting skills combined with basic fusing experience.

Roger V Thomas

Who would think of using strips of streamer glass cut on a bias, overlaid on an image to convey a sense of atmosphere and movement in a landscape? You might, if you were familiar with Prismacolor pencil and hatching techniques of drawing.

Who would look at a piece of streaky white/black glass and see a forest of birch trees? You might, if you had studied the ink brush masters of Oriental art.

Who would fire their work face down in the kiln so they couldn’t see what they were doing? You might, if you were trying to create a painting of glass and a flat canvas to view it from.

Roger Thomas has spent 30 years devising techniques such as these while creating work that considers glass’ unique attributes of gloss, surface, line, edge and most of all transparency and depth. He is constantly refining his ways of translating what he sees into the medium he loves.

These courses are intended for more advanced kilnformers who want to expand their repertoire of glass techniques. The goal is not to create a masterpiece, but to take the opportunity to work with and learn from Roger - someone who has a complete understanding of the materials and a fluency in his ability to work with those materials to create the image in his mind’s eye.

Vitrum Studios 6824 Industrial Drive, Studio #105 Beltsville, Maryland 20705 301-595-0736