Core Formed Vessel, “Jupiter”
This is the second core formed vessel I made in Laurie Nessel’s workshop at the Mesa Art Center I had an idea of making a vessel that was whorled and striped like the planet Jupiter. The ivory came out brighter in contrast to the red than I had anticipated, and the eye looks a little creepie than I had anticipated, but it does stand.
When I was cleaning the iron out of this (part of the process) I got a little enthusiastic with my scrubbing and accidentally broke it. I glued it back together, but it made me afraid of cleaning the other one.
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I made this at a special workshop taught at the Mesa Arts Center by Laurie Nessel. Now I’ve made vessels with both lampworking and borosilicate techniques, as well as in the hot shop. In some ways, this is the easiest, but it is by no means the fastest. Also, unlike with boro and hot shop, you can’t easily get perfectly translucent vessels on account of the roughness of the core. You can, however, get details and bright colors.
Here are the spacer beads I made, again with the not-likely-to-be-realized idea that I might actually string these into a necklace or something. I made them four at a time, and made them as small as I could. They are approximately 3/8 inches in diameter.
These are the beads I did after lunch, figuring that now I could try a different technique using different colors. I didn’t make as many after lunch. For this I mostly used dots and masking. My dots are not placed very well, because I don’t have the muscle control sufficient to hold my hands in front of me that steadily for that many hours.
I took a beadmaking class in December, and got my beads back recently. We were working on stringer techniques, so I tried to use the same simple techniques with the same colors figuring that it was A. good practice and B. might make enough beads for a piece of jewelry. I rarely string my beads, as I don’t care for that sort of jewelry.