Full weekend ahead: I’ve promised to demonstrate pate de verre at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland. It’s part of the Oregon Glass Guild’s month of glass at MoCC. Last week Richard Glenn did an interactive mosaic, and we’ve had torchwork, fusing, all kinds of stuff.
Anyway, once I got my head past the sore-tooth-and-painkiller-hangover bit I tore into the demo thing, but was ‘way, ‘way late. Did a fast 11×14 model (below) for a pate de verre panel, invested it, filled it and got it into the kiln in only 15 hours, which has to be a record. Now I’m working on models I can use to demonstrate stuff, and figuring out how to do a little flipbook of pictures showing various stages, if there’s time.
So far the gods of glass have smiled and stuff’s on schedule, but I suspect my kiln is on its last legs. Time to get earnest about the new casting kiln design and see if I can figure out kilncams and humidity sensors and stuff like that. Oughta be fun…if the kiln will just hold out a little longer.
Anyway, if you’re in Portland over the holiday, stop in and say hello.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Leslie Rowe-Israelson // Jul 10, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Hey dear friend, I hope this is not the piece that the darn kiln decided to fiddle with. It is so incredible. Les
2 cynthia // Jul 10, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Yup. That’s the one (and one other). I thought it was a good example of both modern and old-fashioned PdV technique and was going to do a duplicate in a different palette at the demo.
I mostly saved it, thanks to Bob Heath, pres of the Portland OGG–he loaned me his kiln. The kiln isn’t tall enough to hold the other piece (a vase from my Emergents series), and the trip to Bob’s house with a dried-out mold was hair-raising…but it actually came out OK. I’ll post about it tonight and see if I can’t upload a picture of the almost-finished work, which is fun.
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