pate de verre

12 01, 2008

Alicia Lomne’s class, Part II

2017-10-07T17:39:43-07:00

Apologies for the lack of posts lately; working silly-long hours at my day job at the moment (never have multiple clients in a crisis simultaneously) and also determined to stick to my "at least 20 hours/week" on my glass work. At the moment I'm rediscovering my INability to add another six hours to the day, and thinking that sleep is [...]

Alicia Lomne’s class, Part II2017-10-07T17:39:43-07:00
13 12, 2007

Alicia Lomne and pate de verre

2017-10-07T17:39:24-07:00

Whew. Been so busy my eyes are crossing (which makes it kinda hard to write), but did want to mention what I'm up to this week: Alicia Lomne's pate de verre class at Bullseye. I am having a ball, and sorry that the week's drawing to a close. Most people employ pate de verre techniques (there are many) to create [...]

Alicia Lomne and pate de verre2017-10-07T17:39:24-07:00
5 11, 2007

Castuary: Life in the patience zone

2017-10-07T17:36:34-07:00

The kiln hit process temp* last night, stayed that way for eight hours and about two minutes ago reached its annealing soak. It'll soak for another 23 hours and 58 minutes, then start the long, downhill slide to room temperature. By my calculations it'll hit room temperature Friday morning at 5:15 AM. Another 24 hours of resting, and it's mine. [...]

Castuary: Life in the patience zone2017-10-07T17:36:34-07:00
5 08, 2007

The wax thing, part II

2017-10-07T17:36:02-07:00

If you read yesterday's post you probably got that I'm not exactly the world's biggest fan of sculpting wax. I am a huge fan, though, of sculpting in clay. That's why I've spent many hours figuring out how to cast my glass sculptures without a sticky, crud-colored drop of victory brown wax in the house. It worked. Mostly. Which is probably why I was visited by the wax missionaries.

The wax thing, part II2017-10-07T17:36:02-07:00
4 08, 2007

The wax thing, part I

2017-10-07T17:36:02-07:00

So I have this thing about wax. Love it for candles and jam jars and letters. Hate it for sculpting. This is odd, since I sculpt. (And lately, I sculpt a lot.)

The wax thing, part I2017-10-07T17:36:02-07:00
15 05, 2007

Quilt of glass

2016-05-17T18:24:08-07:00

Quick note: Remember Windwoman, the 8x8 glass tile I did for a virtual exhibit? The exhibit, GlassQuilt, is now open, thanks to hard (and great) work from glass artist Toni Johnson.

Quilt of glass2016-05-17T18:24:08-07:00
3 04, 2007

Windwoman

2016-11-06T05:43:58-08:00

Every once in awhile I love doing an assigned glass project. It's a good stretch of the creative muscles--they tell you what they want, and you get to figure out how to accomplish it. Good, clean brainfun.

Windwoman2016-11-06T05:43:58-08:00
24 03, 2007

Making color samples for pate de verre

2017-10-07T17:34:07-07:00

My color dilemma has me making more and more color samples for my glasswork. As I mentioned in my reactivities post, I do color samples in two ways. For regular kilnwork I make shallow clear glass trays with superglue, fill the tray cells with measured frit quantities, and wind up with 6mm color sample charts that are immensely useful when figuring out color-matching and what reacts with which. The set I'm working on now, though, are for pate de verre, and they look at depth and texture as well as color.

Making color samples for pate de verre2017-10-07T17:34:07-07:00
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