Apr 22
This bowl is called “suckbowl” not because of its quality but because of how it’s made. David demonstrated it, and I knew I had to try it out. You start by applying color around a bubble, then blow the bubble into as big a sphere as you can manage. Getting it nice and hot, you …
Apr 22
I made this blue because one of my goals in this class was to create a birthday present for a good friend of mine, and he said he likes the color blue. To make this, I rolled the bubble in frit, and after it was melted it in, I blew it into an optics mold. …
Mar 28
I did this flower after the mutant flower turned out so badly. As you can see, I used the same colors, but this one looks more like a morning glory and less like the tentacle of an alien whose parents were exposed to too much gamma radiation. I don’t actually like morning glories that much, …
Mar 25
Sometimes we make simple flowers in hot shop when class isn’ t yet over, but there isn’t enough time to make a vessel. You get a small gather, heat some frit into it, press it into a disk, then get it nice and hot and molten. Sitting at the bench, you use the tweezers to …
Mar 11
This is one of the cups that I made in the glassblowing class I took this spring. One of my goals for the class was to make a cup that I could give to a friend, whose birthday was in early March. I made these lines by trailing a stringer of light blue color around …
