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Now you can try my techniques in your own home studio.

Step-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.

Annie shaping a mountain ridge with glass powder frit. This is just a teaser of the three minute video, which comes with the Mountains tutorial.
The Alcala Method tutorial cover: three fused-glass pieces made with layered fine frit, a sunset beach with a palm tree, a round birch landscape, and a lighthouse. New · 7 short videos included
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The Alcala Method

Developed by David Alcala, explained and demonstrated by me. Fine frit is layered into a narrow slot between a frame and the fusible glass, for dramatic pieces or for designing your own sheet glass. 31 pages, from making your own frame to finishing the scene with a palm tree, plus seven short videos: the frame, the paper-cup pour, tapping the frit to settle, pulling the tape, and drawing and cutting palm fronds.

$40 Add to cart
Seascapes in Glass tutorial cover: a fused-glass ocean scene with a wave breaking into white surf over rocks. New · 4 short videos included
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Seascapes in Glass

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.

$40 Add to cart
Fall Landscape Tutorial cover: a fused-glass autumn scene with white birches, red and gold maples, and a little cabin, mounted on a driftwood base. New · 4 short videos included
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Fall Landscape

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.

$30 Add to cart
Mountains Tutorial cover: a fused-glass mountain scene with snowy peaks, autumn aspens, a log cabin, and a lake. New · 7 short videos included
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Mountains

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.

$40 Add to cart
Cardinal Ornament tutorial: a red fused-glass cardinal perched on a holly branch.
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Cardinal Ornament

A cheerful red cardinal on a holly branch. The first ornament I ever taught, still my favorite to make. 8 pages.

$10 Add to cart
Snowflake Ornament tutorial: three iridescent fused-glass snowflakes with gift cards.
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Snowflake Ornament

No two snowflakes alike, and that's the whole point. A friendly intro to overlapping clear and white glass.

$10 Add to cart
Angel Ornament tutorial: a fused-glass angel with iridescent blue gown, white wings, and a gold bow.
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Angel Ornament

Soft curves, iridescent blues, a gold bow. Good for someone you miss this season.

$10 Add to cart
Controlled Stringer Technique tutorial: a fused-glass panel of a sunset behind tree silhouettes, made entirely from melted glass stringers. New · 3 short videos included
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Controlled Stringer Technique

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.

$20 Add to cart
The Ornament Book by Annie Dotzauer: the cover, showing a gnome, a lit window, a snow globe, and eight more fused-glass ornaments.
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The Ornament Book

A dozen ornament projects gathered into one PDF, with materials lists and step-by-step photos for each.

$35 Add to cart
Trees Tutorial cover: a fused-glass landscape of tall trees with detailed branches and dappled light. New · 5 short videos included
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Trees

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.

$30 Add to cart
Forest Tranquility Tutorial cover: a quiet fused-glass tree-scene landscape panel. New · 6 short videos included
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Forest Tranquility

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.

$30 Add to cart
Underwater Scene Tutorial cover: a fused-glass underwater scene with coral, sea fans, and bubbles.
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Underwater Scene

Coral, sea fans, bubbles. Layered turquoise and blue glass with luminescent accents. The companion to Underwater Fantasy in the Cobalt room.

$30 Add to cart
Sunset Pendant Tutorial cover: a small fused-glass pendant of a sunset, made with fired enamels.
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Sunset Pendant

A small wearable sunset. Made with fired enamels (Colors for Earth). A short project, good for a first try with enamels.

$15 Add to cart
Holy Scrap Tutorial cover: a fused-glass panel of monarch butterflies over a wildflower field, built on a scrap-glass background. Updated · 4 short videos included
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Holy Scrap

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. Now twice the size, with two step by step projects to put on top of the background: a poinsettia panel and an abstract luminescent sunset. 20 pages, plus four short videos: building the background, making the poinsettias, how they come out of the kiln, and arranging them on the finished piece.

$30 Add to cart
Free tutorials

A little something for stopping by.

A handful of free tutorials, just for visiting the site. More may follow.

Photo Holders free tutorial cover: a sunset beach photo standing in a curved fused-glass holder, turquoise with dark blue waves, a shell and two starfish along the front.

Photo Holders

A glass stand for a favorite photo. Fiber paper between the two layers makes the slot, and frit and stringers make the design. Firing schedules and lots of ideas included. 5 pages.

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Fake Freeze and Fuse free tutorial cover: four little flowers made of powdered frit and layering mix, two rust red and two yellow and white, each with a dark center, dried and ready for the kiln.

Fake Freeze and Fuse

Little flowers and critters from powdered frit and layering mix in silicone molds. Bake them bone dry, then tack fuse. Kiln schedule included. 2 pages.

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Striped Hearts free tutorial cover: nine fused-glass hearts in orange, black, turquoise, blue and white, each with wavy stripes running through it.

Striped Hearts

A quick way to use up all those colorful scraps. Stack, fire, cut, and fill a heart mold. 5 pages.

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Scrap Glass Feathers free tutorial cover: four fused-glass feathers in red, blue and teal, and white and brown, made from scrap glass.

Scrap Glass Feathers

Simple feathers made from all that scrap glass piling up by the kiln. 7 pages.

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Markers on Glass free tutorial cover: photos of Sharpie, Posca, and other markers before and after firing on clear, black, and white glass.

Markers on Glass

How different markers behave on clear, black, and white glass after firing. Samples fired up to 1380°.

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Free tips

Little tips from the studio.

Quick tricks Annie uses at the work table, a minute or less each.

Nipping off a tiny piece without running pliers. Annie uses her grozers, flat side up, right at the line, for a clean snap every time.
Powdered frit where you didn't want it? Annie vacuums it up with a little earwax remover from Amazon, no erasing the whole design.
Three issues of Fused Glass Magazine fanned out: a cover with sheet glass and cutting tools, a cover with tall fused-glass vases, and a cover with a red and gold fused-glass bowl.
Worth a look

If you like my tutorials, you'll love Fused Glass Magazine.

Every issue is full of glass techniques, interviews with other artists, and ideas galore. Some of my own work and tutorials have been in it too.

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Notes from the kiln.

When something's worth sharing, I'll send a short note: a new tutorial, upcoming classes and shows, and the little tips I pick up at the work table.

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