>Its a dreary downtown day; the sky’s a charcoal gray, but here at the Washington Glass School, we don’t need the sun to shine! Below is a quick photo tour around the place on this wet spring Saturday :
Lino-cut Printmaking with Cast Glass panels class powers on:
Instructor Kirk Waldroff checks on a student as he grinds & coldworks his cast glass panel.
Carving into the lino blocks 
Inking the glass panels
Pulling a Print – Nancy Donnelly takes us through the process.
The glass block and the print side by side.
While in the Flameworking studio, test glass color samples being made:
Rob Kincheloe works color combos for a fused glass camouflage pattern background. Here Rob talks of the color options with Kirk Waldroff.
A modern PETA-friendly animal mounting.
In the back studio – artists working on artwork / sculpture components:
Matt Duffy works on his steel and glass sculpture components.
Michael Janis works on a sgraffitto panel to be shown at Glass Weekend in New Jersey.
Printmaking with Glass
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Making prints from Glass?! Instructor Kirk Waldroff has been teaching a class in making wood or lino block prints, translating that into glass, and pulling prints from the glass panels. This original process is created by expand on and combining traditional printmaking with modern glass sculpting techniques.
The glass positives inside the kiln – to be cleaned and inked.
Fresh from the kiln, the glass is carefully prepared as a relief matrix.
Kirk oversees the student Nancy Donnelly inking the block.
Some of the first prints pulled.
Instructor Kirk Waldroff expresses his happiness with the day’s results.
The class wraps up next week, with the students working on a more complex prints.
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