This quick video shows how one artist creates a fused and draped sunflower lampshade from start to finish. It is an incredible amount of work to cut and place all of the sunflower parts, then both glue it together and create shading in the piece with the frit. Although the audio is pretty silly, I think that the results are gorgeous. Check it out and leave a comment with your thoughts about it! … [Read more...]
I made another one of my tie dye bowls a few weeks back. This time I used a different pot to melt the scrap glass. Instead of having three rectangular holes radiating out from the center, it had five round holes like a five spot pattern on a dice (or is that die?) or domino. Again, how the glass is loaded into the melt pot makes a big difference to the finished disk the melt pot creates when it’s heated. I had a pair of bowls … [Read more...]
Thanks for your patience with my lack of posting for so long. While I knew it had been a while, I hadn't realized that I had waited that long until I went to post today. Between the holidays, moving into a new place, and lots of classes, I haven't spent very much time in the studio or posted any of my new work. With all of the classes I've been taking, the friends that I've made in the Phoenix area, and the Phoenix area groups that I've joined, … [Read more...]
