Was honored by the presence of two really wonderful artists, Mel and Les "Twinvision" Rowe-Israelson, last week and this. They're in town to focus on building some reasonably massive glass sculptures, meeting up with the rest of the glass community and...BECon.
The grey tweed effect was SUPPOSED to be pure French Vanilla, punctuated by small transparent lines of intense color. Instead, I got a motley assortment of greys and lavenders mixed with French Vanilla.
There's a discussion going on Warmglass right now concerning beginning glass resources (books and tutorials). I've just suggested that your own project notes are an essential part of the journey, a sort of do-it-yourself tutorial that should never be missed. So here's the template I used.
On the production side of the house, I have four series I really enjoy working on: Crystals, Sand, Shards and Sacks. I've talked about the first three a bit, and was getting around to Stacks when a commission piece blew up on me this morning. Damnation.
To tell the truth, I don't think I've made a traditional fused piece of glass, i.e, a full, flat fuse of a bunch of cut sheet glass pieces that I then slump into a vessel form, in a long time. That direction seems a lot more limited than using sheet only as a foil, or structural support, for the near-infinite number of things you can do with frit.
Planning a trip this summer? You may want to walk. Drive. Boat. Take a train. ANYthing but fly. So far this summer air travel has pretty much been a recipe for disaster. Crashes are up, service is down. (Don't believe me on that last? Check USA Today's passenger ratings, or JD Power & Associates' 2007 North American Airline Satisfaction Study.) [...]
When Father's Day rolls around I usually wind up wishing I were five years old again. That's because as a five year old I ALWAYS knew what Dad wanted for Father's Day: a macaroni-covered picture of a house, decorated with red yarn. I don't know exactly when I stopped being so sure of that, but that was the point at [...]
Drove up to Hood River yesterday to participate in the "Art Walk,"this time as artist, not tourist, and I had a blast. I now see why people do these things, even if they don't get rich.
I'm a marketeer by trade. I've helped the Fortune 500 market products worth billions of dollars and several points on the NYSE, so this stuff should be old hat, right? Wrong--I'm discovering it's VERY different when it's your own artwork that's on the block. The last time I was this butterflies-in-stomach nervous was when I sang at my first concert (and since you've never heard me sing at concert since you can probably get an idea of just how nervous that was).
There's been some interest on warmglass lately about doing chunky, frosted glass vessels like the one above (and also the one at the top of this blog), something I've been experimenting with ever since my parents' big glass display doors came down. I take pretty extensive notes (and pictures) of my experiments, so I thought I'd post a longer explanation here...
