May 13
Ironically, I made this one after I made the blue goblet. I say ironic, because it’s kind of mutant in comparison. I was shooting more towards a pilsner glass shape rather than a martini glass. Somewhere along the way, it got out of shape and I never got it back on shape again.
Jun 21
For this dragonfly, I used a clear sheet over amber. The instructor suggested it for greater visibility. She didn’t quite understand that I was a skinflint who didn’t want to buy more clear glass, I guess. This was before I had tested the mica pigments to see which ones worked (bright gold) and which …
Jun 18
This technique was something I kind of made up, because the other students in the class just did their own, straightforward projects. I saw that someone was using mica pigments on her glass work, and I have a bunch of those that I use for mixed media. Naturally, the ones made for glass are expensive. …
Jun 15
I took a fused glass class this spring. I hadn’t been terribly inspired by anything I’d seen in fused glass, but I figured that it was one of the few types of glassworking I hadn’t tried yet, so I ought to give it a go. My first couple of pieces are really ugly. So ugly …
May 19
These were made by reaming molten glass with a graphite reamer. To make the frozen drop crown shape, I pulled out petals by using tweezers, a technique we use to make easy flowers in hotshop.
