The heck with it! Let’s play! (Part 1: “Glass quilt” samplers)
June 8, 2010
Ever had one of those days where there’s all kindsa work you OUGHTA be doing, but your inner child says “The heck with it. Let’s play?”
That was me last weekend. I finally carved out a whole glorious 48 hours to make art. Excellent time to shovel out the studio, fire a bunch of pate de verre test tiles, mix up a couple of custom billets, redefine some investment facecoats, repair the broken head of the gigantic nude on my sculpture stand so I can get her silicone finished, burn off the new kilnshelf, develop a billet stack order for the recast of Repose, work through a hotcast sequence for Totem II and line up a hotshop to do it in, design that lighted steel stand for Riverflow’s next appearance, pour a couple of wax sheets…
The heck with it. Let’s PLAY!
Glass, relaxed
June 24, 2009
As much as I love the pate de verre processes I’m investigating, they can get kinda intense, tedious and looooong. And they don’t exactly happen overnight.
It’s amazing how nice it feels just to quickly FUSE something for a change.
Using up (lots of) scrap glass
March 6, 2009
This getting ready to move stuff is a pain but with some compensations; I inventoried my raw glass stock (came up with about 90 sheets of glass that will be coming to a garage sale soon), and my fingers started itching to cut glass.
Seems like ages since I’ve laid cutter to glass, or chonked a piece off a glass rod. And there was all that lovely scrap that I don’t want to move. Some of it will be given to school and community center projects, but there was a bunch of nearly useless skinny pieces…so I banged out some keystone projects. Nothing great, certainly not great art, but a nice change of pace from the intensity of casting and a nice way to turn a bunch of scrap into something that holds fruit. [Read more]
Kilncarving with Thinfire
September 26, 2008
I’m posting this one as a response to some folks on warmglass asking about kilncarving, so please bear with me. I’ve experimented with the level of detail possible in a kilncarving, and been pretty pleased with the results. At some point I’ll go back and mess with this some more, see what I can do. (And apologies for the crummy photos–I haven’t quite figured out how to photograph the results; they’re a lot more gorgeous in person)
Whole lotta stackin’ goin’ on. (ChevronBowl)
April 19, 2008
Look, Ma!! No infrastructure! (WeedsBasket)
January 28, 2008
Hypothesis: A glass framework stabilizes a tack-fused stringer construction, requiring fewer stringers (and likely fewer firings).
Background: I’m having a fair amount of success with tack-fused stringer projects that build on a glass support structure. Since the support framework is tedious to construct, I’m wondering if it’s really contributing enough to be worth doing.
Test: Make a stringer vessel without the framework, and keep adding stringer (and firings) until the vessel is full-sized and stable.
LotusBowl
December 31, 2007
Slugfest
December 8, 2007
I really like slugs. More specifically, I really like nudibranchs, the wildly colored, shell-less critters that wend their way through kelp beds, coral formations and sea floors around the world.
In fact, I’ve been making glass in honor of nudibranchs whenever the mood takes me:
Life in the slow (glass) lane… (fast-de-verre)
October 19, 2007
Coolth #2: Quoin Basket
October 14, 2007
