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	<title>Cynthia &#187; Fusing/tack-fusing</title>
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	<description>My life, my sculpture...and other things</description>
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		<title>Favorable (glass) reactions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you mix frit colors--as all pate de verre and frit painting artists do with abandon--you quickly learn about reactivity between colored glasses. Try warming up the chill BE Salmon Pink with a little BE Medium Amber, and the resulting sludgy grey-brown will stick in your mind forever.

Or so I thought. At a beginning casting workshop recently, one of my students complained that it was tough to simply remember what reacted with which. Or worse, when they combined glasses from two manufacturers, they couldn't find any reactivity info at all, which apparently resulted in some unpleasant surprises.]]></description>
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		<title>Keryn Whitney and glass inspiration</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got the sweetest email the other day, right on the heels of my, er, terms &#038; conditions for the use of this blog. Don't know if one had anything to do with the other, but it sure tickled me to read this:

    Hi Cynthia
    I just wanted to send you a quick thanks for imparting your wonderful
    knowledge on the use of super glue with fusing. ]]></description>
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		<title>Touchable glass</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glass may be one of the most untouchable of artforms--its strong relationship with light and color makes it extremely visual anyway, and its fragility and razor-sharp fractures most likely reinforce the "eyes only" notion.

But what if that's not an option? Why can't artists create glass that speaks to the visually impaired?

This is something ELSE I'm learning from this little informal teaching stuff I've been doing. (I gotta wonder if the whole reason you teach is to be able to learn more.)]]></description>
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		<title>Playing in the sandbox</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fun little project that&#8217;s worth investigating, one which started with my urgent need for about 600 glass cabochons. I wanted to get as many cabs as possible out of scrap, so I began cutting up dozens of failed projects and refiring the pieces. Sometimes the results were spectacular, sometimes not&#8230;but my absolute favorites came from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kinda like peanuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guess what I've been doing in my spare time?

Everybody needs a goal, right? I decided mine was to make 600 glass cabochons for a project I have at the end of April.

So for the last three or four weeks I've been chopping, shaping, grinding and firing dozens and dozens of those kilnformed murrini I've been writing about. 

And it's kinda like peanuts: I examine a fresh-from-the-kiln batch, wonder what would happen if I sawed the cane THIS way, or fired an extra 30 minutes, or stacked the glass THAT way...and off I go to try that.]]></description>
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		<title>Murrini cane in a kiln: Sandwiches, Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When does a cane stop being murrini cane and start being pattern bar? Beats me. I can find only two differences. In fact, for many types of murrine you start with a huge pattern bar, then heat and stretch and compress it until it becomes...murrini cane. 

So... if I use the same techniques I use to make pattern bars, then experiment with ways to stretch and distort those bars in the kiln, and then cut "cane" bars from the resulting stack...I should have murrini, right?]]></description>
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		<title>Murrini cane in a kiln: Jellyrolls</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last time around, I talked about murrini cane, and the most obvious way to make them in the kiln: A murrini rod mold, AKA &#8220;rodpod.&#8221; As I&#8217;ve said, I&#8217;m not pretending that anything I discuss here is my invention or brand new stuff: Murrini-making is one of the oldest glassmaking techniques. This is just a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Murrini cane in a kiln: The rod mold</title>
		<link>http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/2010/latest/making-kiln-cane-for-murrini-the-rod-mold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FINALLY I'm back in the studio, messing around, after a six-month hiatus. And I figured I'd start with something easy: Making components for bigger sculptures. Then it turned into this bigger thing, i.e., exploring how to make murrini in a kiln. I'm trying several methods here, and this will probably be a three-parter. Sorry about that.

So...I've got some ideas for cast, figurative sculptures and vessels that incorporate murrini, bronze and other things. First order of business: Make enough murrini for easy playing.]]></description>
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		<title>Pop goes da weasel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever had one of those moments of sheer, utter astonishment, where your mouth drops open all the way down to your ankles and stays there?

That was me on Monday, thanks to the artwork pictured above. The rightmost panel quietly separated itself from its hanger and came off in my hands...while I was rehanging it. Since it's been hanging perfectly well on that same wall for more than three years, I was, uhm, kinda taken aback.]]></description>
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		<title>The heck with it. Let’s play! (Part 2: Zen gardens)</title>
		<link>http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/2010/latest/zen-gardens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us get into the art business because we love it...but it's possible to love it to death. You can get so serious and self-critical about your art that you maybe forget why you're doing it: Because it's so much fun. I realized last weekend that I was headed that way, fast.

And so for the next 48 hours I stopped worrying about being a grownup, serious artist trying to find my voice and instead had fun. I made a couple of glass samplers, an old project I used to love doing. It used up a bunch of glass scrap, reintroduced me to my inner child and did some battery recharging.
]]></description>
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