Superman Project

I have been at Creative Glass for just over 3 months now and in May I decided to try my hand at some glass work. It is a very creative place here and I can get my hands on all the tools and materials I need.

I had the idea to try and replicate the Superman logo, this proved not to be as straight forward as I had first thought. I asked everybody in work how they would do it, as most of them have got a lot of experience with this type of thing, I didn’t listen to them. All their ideas were good, but the end result just wouldn’t have been what I was looking for.

The main problem I was facing was getting the blue outline which surrounded the yellow shapes that make up the “S”. In the end, after some tests, I came up with a “Layered” effect. I hand cut the glass and lay all the shapes on top of each other. To get the blue outline, I cut the blue shapes 2mm larger than the yellow. The fusing process also took some thought, I didn’t want to fire the glass at too high a temperature, as I wanted to retain the sharp edges of the glass, I decided to tack fuse it at a top temperature of 725°c and the end effect gives you a piece which from the front, you see the logo as normal and from the side you see an interestingly different 3d shape.

See the slide show below for images showing the creation and end result…