Light Unleashed
Silvia Levenson's "Until Death Do Us Part I" (2014). Kilnformed glass. Color used in conjunction with form to articulate a concept and reinforce the meaning of the artwork. Photo byMarco Del Comune Photographer.
Klaus Moje's "untitled 3" (2006). Kilnformed glass. Something about Klaus' work here.
Color has always been how artists test the limits of their materials—how far light can be pushed, how meaning can be carried by hue alone. For painters, it’s pigment. For textile artists, fiber and surface. For glass artists, it is color in its most elemental form: material and light united.
Bullseye’s approach to color grew out of that pursuit. In the early 1970s, three recent art school grads set up shop in Portland, Oregon, and set out to solve a problem that had frustrated generations before them: how to melt different colors of glass together and have them survive the journey intact. Historically, glass color had to be kept apart—joined with lead, assembled piece by piece—because different formulas expanded and cooled at different rates. Put them together, and the work would crack.
What Bullseye discovered was not just a way to make glass reliably compatible, but a new creative language. By engineering a palette that could be fused, slumped, cast, and coldworked together, the founders unlocked a creative media through which color could move, blend, pool, and collide in completely unique ways.
That legacy still shapes every sheet of Bullseye glass made today. From punchy, workhorse colors like Copper Red Opalescent and a handful of funky companions, the palette grew into something entirely new: a tested-compatible system of kilnformed color that could be fused, slumped, cast, and coldworked without sacrificing reliability.
Today, Bullseye makes hundreds of glass colors and styles by hand. Transparent and opalescent, reactive, iridescent, streaky, collage, and more—each formulated to give artists specific effects with light, depth, and texture, each able to be fine tuned to achieve custom hues and saturations.
Bullseye's ongoing ambition is to offer the world a material that transforms what is possible, not just in glass, but in all of art.
Explore Color
Glass makes color come alive—glowing, shifting, and changing with the light. Explore Bullseye’s range of fusible glass styles and discover just how expressive color can be when it’s shaped by heat, light, and your imagination.
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Color Design Tools
Bullseye Color Wheel
A visual guide to how Bullseye colors relate. Use it to plan harmonies, explore contrast, and understand how to create palettes that best serve your creative visions.
Bullseye Glass Samples
Our colors are best experienced in person. Samples let you see how a color handles light, opacity, texture, and edge effects.
Publications
A collection of innovative project and technique guides, inspiring catalogs, and technical resources—all curated by Bullseye.
Videos
100+ videos, featuring everything from foundational skill demonstrations to detailed project tutorials. videos.bullseyeglass.com.
